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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/1_kings/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Appears to Solomon</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and the king’s house and all that Solomon desired to build, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall 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 turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and 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 cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And this house will become a heap of ruins.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Syriac, Old Latin; Hebrew will become high">a</a></sup></span> Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> done thus to this land and to this house?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has brought all this disaster on them.’”</p> <p class="heading">Solomon’s Other Acts</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and the king’s house, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of Cabul to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms">b</a></sup></span> of gold.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to 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) and Lower Beth-horon <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew lacks of Judah">c</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and all the store cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)">d</a></sup></span>—these Solomon drafted to be slaves, and so they are to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work: 550 who had charge of the people who carried on the work.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, making offerings with it<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint lacks with it">e</a></sup></span> before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. So he finished the house.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Syriac, Old Latin; Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">will become</span> high</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">talent</i> was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Hebrew lacks <i class="catch-word">of Judah</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> That is, set apart (<span class="catch-word">devote</span>) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)<br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> Septuagint lacks <i class="catch-word">with it</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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