1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building
of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which
he was pleased to do,
2 That
the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at
Gibeon.
3 And
the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou
hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put
my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there
perpetually.
4 And
if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart,
and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt
keep my statutes and my judgments:
5 Then
I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised
to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of
Israel.
6 But if ye shall at all turn from following
me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my
statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
7 Then
will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house,
which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel
shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
8 And
at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done
thus unto this land, and to this house?
9 And
they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth
their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods,
and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon
them all this evil.
10 And
it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two
houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished
Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his
desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of
Galilee.
12 And
Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and
they pleased him not.
13 And
he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my
brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
14 And
Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
15 And
this is the
reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the
LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and
Megiddo, and Gezer.
16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and
taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the
city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's
wife.
17 And
Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
18 And
Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
19 And
all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and
cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem,
and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20 And all the people that were left
of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not
of the children of Israel,
21 Their
children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel
also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of
bondservice unto this day.
22 But
of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men
of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his
chariots, and his horsemen.
23 These were the
chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and
fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
24 But
Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had
built for her: then did he build Millo.
25 And
three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings
upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the
altar that was before
the LORD. So he finished the house.
26 And
king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside
Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
27 And
Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea,
with the servants of Solomon.
28 And
they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty
talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
