God’s Promise and Warning
1 Now it came about when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all that Solomon desired to do,
2 that the Lordappeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3 The Lordsaid to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
4 As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded youandwill keep My statutes and My ordinances,
5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’
6 “But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
7 then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
8 And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, ‘Why has the Lorddone thus to this land and to this house?’
9 And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the Lordtheir God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the Lordhas brought all this adversity on them.'”
Cities Given to Hiram
10 It came about at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lordand the king’s house
11 (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12 So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.
13 He said, “What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?” So they were called the land ofCabul to this day.
14 And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold.
15 Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the Lord, his own house, theMillo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16 ForPharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given itasa dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17 So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower Beth-horon
18 and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the landof Judah,
19 and all the storage cities which Solomon had, even the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and all that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.
20 As forall the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel,
21 their descendants who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel were unable to destroy utterly, from them Solomon levied forced laborers, even to this day.
22 But Solomon did not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.
23 Thesewerethe chief officers whowereover Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people doing the work.
24 As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the city of David to her house whichSolomonhad built for her, then he built the Millo.
25 Now three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the Lord, burning incense with themon the altarwhichwasbefore the Lord. So he finished the house.
26 King Solomon also built a fleet of ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
27 And Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon.
28 They went to Ophir and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and broughtitto King Solomon.
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