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1 Kings 9 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Lord Appears to Solomon

(2Ch 7:12–22 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:1 - As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all that Solomon desired to build,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:2 - the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:3 - And the LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:4 - And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:5 - then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:6 - But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:7 - then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:8 - And this house will become a heap of ruins.[fn] Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:9 - Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this disaster on them.’”

Solomon’s Other Acts

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:10 - At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king’s house,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:13 - Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of Cabul to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:14 - Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents[fn] of gold.
(2Ch 8:3–16 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 - And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the LORD and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:16 - (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:17 - so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and Lower Beth-horon

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:18 - and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:19 - and all the store cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:20 - All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel—

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:21 - their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction[fn]—these Solomon drafted to be slaves, and so they are to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:22 - But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:23 - These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work: 550 who had charge of the people who carried on the work.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:24 - But Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:25 - Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the LORD, making offerings with it[fn] before the LORD. So he finished the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26 - King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:27 - And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:28 - And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.
See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
ESV Footnotes
Syriac, Old Latin; Hebrew will become high
A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
Hebrew lacks of Judah
That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
Septuagint lacks with it
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