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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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 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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">God Appears to Solomon Again</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2CH 7:11-22">2 Chronicles 7.11-22</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_1"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.1" class="v11_9_1">1</span>After King Solomon had finished building the Temple and the palace and everything else he wanted to build, </span><span class="v11_9_2"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.2" class="v11_9_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> the <span class="nd">Lord</span> appeared to him again, as he had in Gibeon. </span><span class="v11_9_3"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.3" class="v11_9_3">3</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to him, “I have heard your prayer. I consecrate this Temple which you have built as the place where I shall be worshiped forever. I will watch over it and protect it for all time. </span><span class="v11_9_4"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.4" class="v11_9_4">4</span>If you will serve me in honesty and integrity, as your father David did, and if you obey my laws and do everything I have commanded you, </span><span class="v11_9_5"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.5" class="v11_9_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants. </span><span class="v11_9_6"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.6" class="v11_9_6">6</span>But if you or your descendants stop following me, disobey the laws and commands I have given you, and worship other gods, </span><span class="v11_9_7"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.7" class="v11_9_7">7</span>then I will remove my people Israel from the land that I have given them. I will also abandon this Temple which I have consecrated as the place where I am to be worshiped. People everywhere will ridicule Israel and treat her with contempt. </span><span class="v11_9_8"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.8" class="v11_9_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This Temple will become a pile of ruins,<a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.8!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed. ‘Why did the <span class="nd">Lord</span> do this to this land and this Temple?’ they will ask. </span><span class="v11_9_9"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.9" class="v11_9_9">9</span>People will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the <span class="nd">Lord</span> their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt. They gave their allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. That is why the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has brought this disaster on them.’”</span></p><h3 class="s">Solomon's Agreement with Hiram</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2CH 8:1">2 Chronicles 8.1</ref>,<ref loc="2CH 8:2">2</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_10"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.10" class="v11_9_10">10</span>It took Solomon twenty years to build the Temple and his palace. </span><span class="v11_9_11"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.11" class="v11_9_11">11</span>King Hiram of Tyre had provided him with all the cedar and pine and with all the gold he wanted for this work. After it was finished, King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the region of Galilee. </span><span class="v11_9_12"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.12" class="v11_9_12">12</span>Hiram went to see them, and he did not like them. </span><span class="v11_9_13"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.13" class="v11_9_13">13</span>So he said to Solomon, “So these, my brother, are the towns you have given me!” For this reason the area is still called Cabul.<a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v11_9_14"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.14" class="v11_9_14">14</span>Hiram had sent Solomon almost five tons of gold.</span></p><h3 class="s">Further Achievements of Solomon</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2CH 8:3-18">2 Chronicles 8.3-18</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_15"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.15" class="v11_9_15">15</span>King Solomon used forced labor to build the Temple and the palace, to fill in land on the east side of the city, and to build the city wall. He also used it to rebuild the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. ( </span><span class="v11_9_16"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.16" class="v11_9_16">16</span>The king of Egypt had attacked Gezer and captured it, killing its inhabitants and setting fire to the city. Then he gave it as a wedding present to his daughter when she married Solomon, </span><span class="v11_9_17"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.17" class="v11_9_17">17</span>and Solomon rebuilt it.) Using his forced labor, Solomon also rebuilt Lower Beth Horon, </span><span class="v11_9_18"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.18" class="v11_9_18">18</span>Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness of Judah, </span><span class="v11_9_19"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.19" class="v11_9_19">19</span>the cities where his supplies were kept, the cities for his horses and chariots, and everything else he wanted to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and elsewhere in his kingdom. </span><span class="v11_9_20"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.20-1Kgs.9.21" class="v11_9_20">20-21</span>For his forced labor Solomon used the descendants of the people of Canaan whom the Israelites had not killed when they took possession of their land. These included Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, whose descendants continue to be slaves down to the present time. </span><span class="v11_9_22"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.22" class="v11_9_22">22</span>Solomon did not make slaves of Israelites; they served as his soldiers, officers, commanders, chariot captains, and cavalry.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_23"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.23" class="v11_9_23">23</span>There were 550 officials in charge of the forced labor working on Solomon's various building projects.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_24"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.24" class="v11_9_24">24</span>Solomon filled in the land on the east side of the city, after his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt, had moved from David's City to the palace Solomon built for her.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_25"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.25" class="v11_9_25">25</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.25!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. He also burned incense<a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.25!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. And so he finished building the Temple.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_26"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.26" class="v11_9_26">26</span>King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Eziongeber, which is near Elath on the shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, in the land of Edom. </span><span class="v11_9_27"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.27" class="v11_9_27">27</span>King Hiram sent some experienced sailors from his fleet to serve with Solomon's men. </span><span class="v11_9_28"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.28" class="v11_9_28">28</span>They sailed to the land of Ophir and brought back to Solomon about sixteen tons of gold.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.8: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">a pile of ruins; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">high.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.13: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Cabul: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name sounds like “ke-bal,” the Hebrew for “worthless.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.25: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew has two additional words, the meaning of which is unclear.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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