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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 NET 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="../">NET Bible</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">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/1_kings/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After Solomon finished building the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> said to him, “I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>This temple will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn, saying, ‘Why did the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> do this to this land and this temple?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Others will then answer, ‘Because they abandoned the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> their God, who led their ancestors out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. That is why the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> has brought all this disaster down on them.’”</p> <p class="title">Foreign Affairs and Building Projects</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>After twenty years, during which Solomon built the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple and the royal palace, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre twenty cities in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Hiram asked, “Why did you give me these cities, my friend?” He called that area the region of Cabul, a name which it has retained to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Here are the details concerning the work crews King Solomon conscripted to build the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple, his palace, the terrace, the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>(Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Solomon built up Gezer, lower Beth Horon, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Baalath, Tadmor in the wilderness, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>all the storage cities that belonged to him, and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh’s daughter moved up from the city of David to the palace Solomon built for her.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, burning incense along with them before the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. He made the temple his official worship place.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>King Solomon also built ships in Ezion Geber, which is located near Elat in the land of Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors, who were well acquainted with the sea, to serve with Solomon’s men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They sailed to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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