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1 Kings 9 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Yahweh Appears to Solomon

(2Ch 7:12–22 )

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Now it happened when Solomon had completed building the house of Yahweh, and the king’s house, and all [fn]that Solomon desired to do,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:2 - that Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:3 - And Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have set apart as holy this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:4 - “As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My judgments,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:5 - then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I [fn]promised to your father David, saying, ‘You shall not have a man cut off from the throne of Israel.’

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“But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have given before you, and 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 which I have given them, and the house which I have set apart as holy for My name, I will [fn]cast out of My presence. So 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 [fn]a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will feel desolate and hiss and say, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this land and to this house?’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:9 - “And they will say, ‘Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore Yahweh has brought all this calamity on them.’”

Cities Given to Hiram

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Now it happened that at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king’s house

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they were not right in his eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:13 - And he said, “What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?” So [fn]they were called the land of [fn]Cabul to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:14 - And Hiram sent to the king [fn]120 talents of gold.

Solomon Builds Cities and Ships

(2Ch 8:3–16 )

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Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon raised up to build the house of Yahweh, his own house, the [fn]Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:16 - For Pharaoh 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 it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:17 - So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower Beth-horon

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:19 - and all the storage cities which Solomon had, and the cities for [fn]his chariots, and the cities for [fn]his horsemen, and [fn]all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land [fn]under his rule.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:20 - As for all 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,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:21 - namely, their sons who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel were unable to devote to destruction, from them Solomon raised up forced laborers to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:22 - 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.

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These were the [fn]chief deputies who were over Solomon’s work, 550, who had dominion over the people doing the work.

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As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, then he built the Millo.

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And three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense with them on the altar which was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

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King Solomon also made a fleet of ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the [fn]Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:27 - And Hiram sent his servants with the fleet of ships, sailors who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:28 - And they went to Ophir and took from there 420 talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon.
See the LSB Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
LSB Footnotes
Lit Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do
Lit spoke
Lit send
Heb high
Lit he called them
Lit as good as nothing
Approx. 4.5 tons or 4 metric tons, a talent was approx. 75 lb. or 34 kg
Citadel
Lit the
Lit the
Lit the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem
Lit of
Or officers of the deputies
Lit Sea of Reeds
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