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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/1_kings/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The LORD’s Response to Solomon</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>So Solomon finished building the Temple of the LORD, as well as the royal palace. He completed everything he had planned to do. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had done before at Gibeon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The LORD said to him,</p><p class="b"/><p class="pmo">“I have heard your prayer and your petition. I have set this Temple apart to be holy—this place you have built where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.</p><p class="pm"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“As for you, if you will follow me with integrity and godliness, as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>then I will establish the throne of your dynasty over Israel forever. For I made this promise to your father, David: ‘One of your descendants will always sit on the throne of Israel.’</p><p class="pm"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the commands and decrees I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled and will gasp in horror. They will ask, ‘Why did the LORD do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?’</p><p class="pm"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“And the answer will be, ‘Because his people abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why the LORD has brought all these disasters on them.’”</p><p class="hdg">Solomon’s Agreement with Hiram</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>It took Solomon twenty years to build the LORD’s Temple and his own royal palace. At the end of that time, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>he gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to King Hiram of Tyre. (Hiram had previously provided all the cedar and cypress timber and gold that Solomon had requested.) <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 towns Solomon had given him, he was not at all 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, my brother?” he asked. So Hiram called that area Cabul (which means “worthless”), as it is still known today. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Nevertheless, Hiram paid<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> Solomon 9,000 pounds<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> of gold.</p><p class="hdg">Solomon’s Many Achievements</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD’s Temple, the royal palace, the supporting terraces,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>(Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer, killing the Canaanite population and burning it down. He gave the city to his daughter as a wedding gift when she married Solomon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So Solomon rebuilt the city of Gezer.) He also built up the towns of Lower Beth-horon, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Baalath, and Tamar<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> in the wilderness within his land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He built towns as supply centers and constructed towns where his chariots and horses<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> could be stationed. He built everything he desired in Jerusalem and Lebanon and throughout his entire realm.</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 some people living in the land who were not Israelites, including Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>These were descendants of the nations whom the people of Israel had not completely destroyed.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> So Solomon conscripted them as slaves, and they serve as forced laborers 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 conscript any of the Israelites for forced labor. Instead, he assigned them to serve as fighting men, government officials, officers and captains in his army, commanders of his chariots, and charioteers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Solomon appointed 550 of them to supervise the people working on his various projects.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh’s daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built for her. Then he constructed the supporting 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 each year Solomon presented burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD. He also burned incense to the LORD. And so he finished the work of building the Temple.</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 a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, a port near Elath<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> in the land of Edom, along the shore of the Red Sea.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Hiram sent experienced crews of sailors to sail the ships 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 to Solomon some sixteen tons<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">i</span></a> of gold.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:14a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">For Hiram had paid.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:14b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">120 talents</span><span class="ft"> [4,000 kilograms].</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:15 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the millo;</span><span class="ft"> also in 9:24. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:18 </span><span class="ft">An alternate reading in the Masoretic Text reads </span><span class="it">Tadmor.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">and charioteers.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:21 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term used here refers to the complete consecration of things or people to the </span><span class="sc">Lord</span><span class="ft">, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:26a </span><span class="ft">As in Greek version (see also 2 Kgs 14:22; 16:6); Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">Eloth,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Elath.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:26b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">sea of reeds.</span><br><span class="fn">i</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:28 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">420 talents</span><span class="ft"> [14 metric tons].</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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