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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 NIV</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><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="../">NIV</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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/1_kings/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The <span class="name">Lord</span> Appears to Solomon</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When Solomon had finished building the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>the <span class="name">Lord</span> appeared to him 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>The <span class="name">Lord</span> said to him:</p><p class="emb">“I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.</p> <p class="emb"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’</p> <p class="emb"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“But if you <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew is plural.">a</a></sup></span> or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew is plural.">b</a></sup></span> and go off to 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 I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>This temple will become a heap of rubble. All <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="See some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew And though this temple is now imposing, all">c</a></sup></span> who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, ‘Why has the <span class="name">Lord</span> done such a thing 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>People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the <span class="name">Lord</span> their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why the <span class="name">Lord</span> brought all this disaster on them.’ ”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Solomon’s Other Activities</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings—the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and the royal palace— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?” he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Kabul sounds like the Hebrew for good-for-nothing.">d</a></sup></span> a name they have to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons">e</a></sup></span> of gold.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s temple, his own palace, the terraces, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the Millo; also in verse 24">f</a></sup></span> the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, 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 attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Solomon rebuilt Gezer.) He built up Lower Beth Horon, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Baalath, and Tadmor <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew may also be read Tamar.">g</a></sup></span> in the desert, within his land, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>as well as all his store cities and the towns for his chariots and for his horses <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or charioteers">h</a></sup></span> —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites). <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the LORD, often by totally destroying them.">i</a></sup></span> —to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But Solomon did not make slaves of any of the Israelites; they were his fighting men, his government officials, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and charioteers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They were also the chief officials in charge of Solomon’s projects—550 officials supervising those who did the work.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>After Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the <span class="name">Lord</span>, burning incense before the <span class="name">Lord</span> along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.</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 ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the Sea of Reeds">j</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Hiram sent his men—sailors who knew the sea—to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s men. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talents <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 16 tons or about 14 metric tons">k</a></sup></span> of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Hebrew is plural.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Hebrew is plural.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotebot">See some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew <i>And though this temple is now imposing, all</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Kabul</i> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>good-for-nothing.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>the Millo</i>; also in verse 24</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Hebrew may also be read <i>Tamar.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>charioteers</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">i</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">j</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>the Sea of Reeds</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">k</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 16 tons or about 14 metric tons</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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