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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Kings 9 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</a> > 1 Kings 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/8.htm" title="1 Kings 8">◄</a> 1 Kings 9 <a href="../1_kings/10.htm" title="1 Kings 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/1_kings/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">God’s Promise and Warning</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now it happened when Solomon had finished building the house (temple) of the LORD and the king’s house (palace), and all else which he was pleased to do, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>that the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, just as He had appeared to him <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>at Gibeon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The LORD told him, “I have heard your prayer and supplication which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My Name <i>and</i> My Presence there forever. My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>As for you, if you walk (live your life) before Me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, acting in accordance with everything that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My precepts, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised your father David, saying, ‘You shall not be without a man (descendant) on the throne of Israel.’ <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“But if you or your sons turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and I will cast out of My sight the house which I have consecrated for My Name <i>and</i> Presence. Then Israel will become a proverb (a saying) and a byword (object of ridicule) among all the peoples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>This house (temple) will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be appalled and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>sneer and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this house?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And they [who know] will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and they have chosen other gods and have worshiped and served them; that is the reason the LORD has brought on them all this adversity.’” <p class="hdg">Cities Given to Hiram</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the temple of the LORD and the palace of the king <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>(Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with as much cedar and cypress timber [from Lebanon] and gold as he desired), at that time King Solomon gave Hiram <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>twenty cities in the land of Galilee (northern Israel). <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>did not please him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He said, “What are these cities [good for] which you have given me, my brother?” So they have been called the land of Cabul (like nothing, unproductive) to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>Millo (fortification), the wall of Jerusalem, [and the fortress cities of] Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><i>For</i> Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer, burned it with fire and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and he had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So Solomon rebuilt [and fortified] Gezer and Lower Beth-horon, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Baalath and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[f]</a></span>Tamar in the wilderness, in the land <i>of Judah,</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and all the storage cities [for surplus provisions] which Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen, and whatever it pleased Solomon to build <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[g]</a></span>in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><i>As for</i> all the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the sons (descendants) of Israel, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>their children who were left after them in the land, whom the Israelites were unable to completely destroy, from them Solomon levied (conscripted) forced laborers, even to this day (the date of this writing). <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But Solomon did not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war (soldiers), his servants, his officers, his captains, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people doing the work. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the City of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, then he built the Millo (fortification). <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Three times a year [during the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[h]</a></span>major annual festivals] Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built to the LORD, and he burned incense with them before the LORD. So he finished the house [of the LORD]. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>King Solomon built a fleet of ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea (Sea of Reeds), in the land of Edom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Hiram [king of Tyre] sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They came to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[i]</a></span>Ophir and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> See 3:4-15.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>hiss</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> These cities were either sold to Hiram in exchange for the gold or used as collateral for a loan of the gold (v 14).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>were not right in his eyes</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[e]</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> The exact nature of the Millo is unclear, but most scholars believe it was some sort of military fortification such as a tower, a citadel, a significant part of a wall or even an earth-fill or terraced hillside. It was located on the eastern side of the City of David. It was later repaired by King Hezekiah.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[f]</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> In 2 Chr 8:4 <i>Tadmor</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[g]</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Because of Solomon’s extensive building program and his extravagant expenditures, he resorted to forced labor and heavy taxation. These oppressive policies, combined with his son’s lack of good judgment contributed to the division of Solomon’s kingdom. Shortly after his death, his son King Rehoboam rebuffed the people’s appeal for relief and declared his intention to add to their burdens (12:11).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[h]</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> I.e. the Feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Booths.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[i]</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> The location of this wealthy trading port is a subject of debate among scholars and archeologists. 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