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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Appears to Solomon Again</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2CH 7:11-22">2 Chronicles 7.11-22</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_1"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.1" class="v11_9_1">1</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s temple and Solomon's palace were now finished, and Solomon had built everything he wanted. </span><span class="v11_9_2"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.2" class="v11_9_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Some time later the <span class="nd">Lord</span> appeared to him again in a dream, just as he had done at Gibeon. </span><span class="v11_9_3"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.3" class="v11_9_3">3</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.3!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v11_9_3">I heard your prayer and what you asked me to do. This temple you have built is where I will be worshiped forever. It belongs to me, and I will never stop watching over it.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v11_9_4"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.4" class="v11_9_4">4</span>You must obey me, as your father David did, and be honest and fair. Obey my laws and teachings, </span><span class="v11_9_5"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.5" class="v11_9_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and I will keep my promise to David that someone from your family will always be king of Israel.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v11_9_6"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.6" class="v11_9_6">6</span>But if you or any of your descendants disobey my commands or start worshiping foreign gods, </span><span class="v11_9_7"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.7" class="v11_9_7">7</span>I will no longer let my people Israel live in this land I gave them. I will desert this temple where I said I would be worshiped. Then people everywhere will think this nation is only a joke and will make fun of it. </span><span class="v11_9_8"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.8" class="v11_9_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This temple will become a pile of rocks!<a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.8!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Everyone who walks by will be shocked, and they will ask, “Why did the <span class="nd">Lord</span> do such a terrible thing to his people and to this temple?” </span><span class="v11_9_9"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.9" class="v11_9_9">9</span>Then they will answer, “We know why the <span class="nd">Lord</span> did this. The people of Israel rejected the <span class="nd">Lord</span> their God, who rescued their ancestors from Egypt, and they started worshiping other gods.”</span></p><h3 class="s1">Other Things Solomon Did</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2CH 8:1-18">2 Chronicles 8.1-18</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_10"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.10" class="v11_9_10">10</span>It took 20 years for the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s temple and Solomon's palace to be built. </span><span class="v11_9_11"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.11" class="v11_9_11">11</span>Later, Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre 20 towns in the region of Galilee to repay him for the cedar, pine, and gold he had given Solomon.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_12"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.12" class="v11_9_12">12</span>When Hiram went to see the towns, he did not like them. </span><span class="v11_9_13"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.13" class="v11_9_13">13</span>He said, “Solomon, my friend, are these the kind of towns you want to give me?” So Hiram called the region Cabul because he thought it was worthless.<a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v11_9_14"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.14" class="v11_9_14">14</span>He sent Solomon only five tons of gold in return.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_15"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.15" class="v11_9_15">15</span>After Solomon's workers had finished the temple and the palace, he ordered them to fill in the land on the east side of Jerusalem,<a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.15!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> to build a wall around the city, and to rebuild the towns of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_16"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.16" class="v11_9_16">16</span>Earlier, the king of Egypt had captured the town of Gezer; he burned it to the ground and killed the Canaanite people living there. Then he gave it to his daughter as a wedding present when she married Solomon. </span><span class="v11_9_17"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.17" class="v11_9_17">17</span>So Solomon had the town rebuilt.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_17">Solomon ordered his workers to rebuild Lower Beth-Horon, </span><span class="v11_9_18"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.18" class="v11_9_18">18</span>Baalath, and Tamar in the desert of Judah. </span><span class="v11_9_19"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.19" class="v11_9_19">19</span>They also built towns where he could keep his supplies and his chariots and horses. Solomon ordered them to build whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and anywhere in his kingdom.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_20"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.20-1Kgs.9.22" class="v11_9_20">20-22</span>Solomon did not force the Israelites to do his work. They were his soldiers, officials, leaders, commanders, chariot captains, and chariot drivers. But he did make slaves of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites who were living in Israel. These were the descendants of those foreigners the Israelites could not destroy, and they remained Israel's slaves.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_23"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.23" class="v11_9_23">23</span>Solomon appointed 550 officers to be in charge of his workers and to watch over his building projects.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_24"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.24" class="v11_9_24">24</span>Solomon's wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt, moved from the older part of Jerusalem<a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.24!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> to her new palace. Then Solomon had the land on the east side of Jerusalem filled in.<a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.24!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_25"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.25" class="v11_9_25">25</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.25!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Three times a year, Solomon burned incense and offered sacrifices to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> on the altar he had built.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_25">Solomon had now finished building the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s temple.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v11_9_26"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.26" class="v11_9_26">26</span>He also had a lot of ships at Ezion-Geber, a town in Edom near Eloth on the Red Sea.<a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.26!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v11_9_27"><span class="reftext" id="1Kgs.9.27-1Kgs.9.28" class="v11_9_27">27-28</span>King Hiram let some of his experienced sailors go to the country of Ophir<a href="#fn" id="link_1Kgs.9.27-1Kgs.9.28!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> with Solomon's own sailors, and they brought back about 14 tons of gold for Solomon.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">a pile of rocks: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations; Hebrew “high.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Cabul … worthless: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Cabul sounds like the Hebrew word for “worthless.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.15 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">fill … Jerusalem: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “build the Millo,” which probably refers to a landfill to strengthen and extend the hill where the city was built.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.24 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the older … Jerusalem: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 3.1.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.24 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the land … filled in: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 9.15.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.26 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Red Sea: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew <char style="tl">yam suph</char>, here referring to the Gulf of Aqaba, since the term is extended to include the northeastern arm of the Red Sea (see also the note at Exodus 13.11).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">9.27,28 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Ophir: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The location of this place is not known.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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