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I have consecrated this Temple that you have built by placing my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there continuously.</p> <p class="doubleindent"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Now as for you, if you commune with me like your father did, with an upright heart of integrity and doing everything that I’ve commanded you and keeping my statutes and ordinances, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>then I’ll make your royal throne secure forever, just as I agreed to do so for your father David when I said, ‘You are to not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But if you or your descendants abandon me, and do not keep my commandments and statutes that I have given to you, and if you go away, serve other gods, and worship them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>then I will eliminate Israel from the land that I gave them and from the Temple that I’ve consecrated for my name. I will throw them out of my sight, and Israel will become the butt of jokes<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:7 Lit. become an object of mockery">a</a></span> and a means of ridicule among people worldwide!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“This Temple will become a pile of ruins. Everyone who passes by it will be so astounded that they will ask, ‘Why did the LORD do this to this land and to this Temple?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and served them. That’s why the Lord has brought all of this disaster on them.’”</p> <p class="heading">Solomon Cedes Cities to Hiram</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>It took 20 years for Solomon to finish working on the two houses—the LORD’s Temple and the royal palace— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>after which King Solomon gave Hiram 20 cities in the land of Galilee, because King Hiram of Tyre had provided Solomon with as much cedar, cypress timber, and gold that he wanted. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but he wasn’t happy with them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>so he asked him, “What are these cities that you have given to me, my brother?” That’s why these cities were named “the land of Cabal”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:13 The Heb. name Cabul means as good as nothing">b</a></span> to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Hiram paid the king 120 talents<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:14 i.e. about 9,000 pounds; a talent weighed about 75 pounds">c</a></span> of gold.</p> <p class="heading">Solomon’s Other Accomplishments</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/2_chronicles/8.htm">2 Chronicles 8:3-16</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Here is a summary of the conscripted labor that King Solomon required to build the LORD’s Temple, his royal palace, the terrace ramparts in the City of David,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:15 Lit. the Millo, fortified areas of ancient Jerusalem with terraces and retaining walls">d</a></span> the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer, burned it down, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and then gave it as a dowry for his daughter, Solomon’s wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, lower Beth-horon, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>along with the storage cities that Solomon used for his chariots and for his cavalry, everything that Solomon felt like building in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in every territory under his control.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The people who survived from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not related to the Israelis, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and whose descendants had survived them and continued to live in the land because the Israelis were unable to completely eliminate them, Solomon placed under conscripted labor, a situation that remains in effect to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>However, Solomon did not force Israelis into conscripted labor, but they did serve as his soldiers, servants, princes, captains, chariot commanders, and cavalry. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>There were 550 chief officers who supervised Solomon’s activities and managed the staff that was doing the work.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter arrived from the City of David to live in her house that Solomon<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:24 Lit. he">e</a></span> had built for her, then he fortified the terrace ramparts in the City of David.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:24 Lit. the Millo, fortified areas of ancient Jerusalem with terraces and retaining walls">f</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Three times every year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he had built to the LORD, burning incense with the offerings in the presence of the Lord.</p> <p class="reg">This concludes the record of the Temple construction.</p> <p class="heading">Solomon’s Business Ventures</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/2_chronicles/8.htm">2 Chronicles 8:17-18</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Reed<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:26 So MT; LXX reads Red">g</a></span> Sea in the land of Edom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Hiram sent his servants to sail with the fleet, since they were expert seamen, and so they accompanied Solomon’s servants. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They sailed as far as Ophir<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:28 Or as a source of fine gold; cf. 1Chr 29:4">h</a></span> and brought back 420 talents<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="9:28 i.e. about 31,500 pounds; a talent weighed about 75 pounds">i</a></span> of gold for Solomon.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 9:7 Lit. <i>become an object of mockery</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 9:13 The Heb. name <i>Cabul</i> means <i>as good as nothing</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 9:14 i.e. about 9,000 pounds; 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