1 Kings 9 Legacy Standard Bible

<!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 Legacy Standard 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" /></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="../">LSB</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">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/1_kings/9.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Yahweh Appears to Solomon</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now it happened when Solomon had completed building the house of Yahweh, and the king’s house, and all <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>that Solomon desired to do, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>that Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have set apart as holy this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you <i>and</i> will keep My statutes and My judgments, <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 <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>promised to your father David, saying, ‘You shall not have a man cut off from the throne of Israel.’ <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments <i>and</i> My statutes which I have given before you, and 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 the house which I have set apart as holy for My name, I will <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>cast out of My presence. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And this house will become <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will <i>feel</i> desolate and hiss and say, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this land and to this house?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And they will say, ‘Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore Yahweh has brought all this calamity on them.’” <p class="hdg">Cities Given to Hiram</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now it happened that at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king’s house <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>(Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they were not right in his eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he said, “What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?” So <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>they were called the land of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Cabul to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Hiram sent to the king <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>120 talents of gold. <p class="hdg">Solomon Builds Cities and Ships</p><p><p class="reg"><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 raised up to build the house of Yahweh, his own house, the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, 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 captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it <i>as</i> 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 Gezer and the lower Beth-horon <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and Baalath and 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 which Solomon had, and the cities for <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>his chariots, and the cities for <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>his horsemen, and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>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, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><i>namely</i>, their sons who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel were unable to devote to destruction, <i>from</i> them Solomon raised up forced laborers to this day. <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, his servants, his princes, his captains, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>These <i>were</i> the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>chief deputies who <i>were</i> over Solomon’s work, 550, who had dominion over the people doing the work. <p class="reg"><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 <i>Solomon</i> had built for her, then he built the Millo. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense with them <i>on the altar</i> which <i>was</i> before Yahweh. So he finished the house. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>King Solomon also made a fleet of ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Red Sea, in the land of Edom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Hiram sent his servants with the fleet of ships, 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>And they went to Ophir and took from there 420 talents of gold and brought <i>it</i> to King Solomon.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Lit <i>Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>spoke</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>send</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Heb <i>high</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>he called them</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>as good as nothing</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Approx. 4.5 tons or 4 metric tons, a talent was approx. 75 lb. or 34 kg<br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Citadel<br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>the</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>the</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Lit <i>of</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Or <i>officers of the deputies</i><br><span class="fnverse">26</span> Lit <i>Sea of Reeds</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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