{1Ki 9:1-9; 2Ch 7:11-22; 1Ki 9:10-14}
9:1 And it happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Jehovah and the king's house and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, 9:2 that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 9:3And Jehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there until everlasting. And my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.
9:4 And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you and will keep my statutes and my ordinances, 9:5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel everlasting, just-as I promised to David your father, saying, A man upon the throne of Israel will not fail you.
9:6 But if you* will turn away from following me, you* or your* sons and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you*, but will go and serve other gods and worship them, 9:7then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight. And Israel will be a proverb and a parable among all peoples.
9:8 And though this house is so high, yet will every man who passes by it is astonished and will hiss. And they will say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house? 9:9 and they will answer, Because they forsook Jehovah their God, who brought out their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore has Jehovah brought all this evil upon them.
{1Ki 9:1-9; 2Ch 7:11-22; 1Ki 9:10-14 **}
9:10 And it happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king's house 9:11 (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees and with gold, according to all his desire), that king Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him. And they did not please him. 9:13 And he said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this day. 9:14 And Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talants of gold.
{2Ch 8:1-18; 1Ki 9:15-10:13}
9:15 And this is the reason for the forced-labor which king Solomon raised: to build the house of Jehovah and his own house and Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer.
9:16 Pharaoh King of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burnt it with fire and slain the Canaanites who dwelt in the city and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
9:17 And Solomon built Gezer and Beth-horon the lower, 9:18 and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land, 9:19 and all the store-cities that Solomon had and the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen and what Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion.
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, 9:21their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised force-labor of bondservants to this day.
9:22 But of the sons of Israel Solomon made no bondservants, but they were the men of war and his servants and his rulers and his captains and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. 9:23 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who bore rule over the people that labored in the work.
9:24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo. 9:25 And three times a year Solomon offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built to Jehovah, burning incense on it, upon the altar that was before Jehovah. So he finished the house.
9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth {Elath}, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, seamen who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.9:28 And they came to Ophir and fetched gold from there, four hundred and twenty talants and brought it to king Solomon.