New International Version

Darby Bible Translation

The Lord Appears to Solomon

When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do,

1

God's Covenant with Solomon

And it came to pass when Solomon had completed the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

2

the Lord appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

2

that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

3

The Lord said to him:
“I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

3

And Jehovah said to him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication which thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

4

“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,

4

And [as for] thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, [and] wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;

5

I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

5

then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

6

“But if youa or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given youb and go off to serve other gods and worship them,

6

[But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments, my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;

7

then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

7

then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and the house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples;

8

This temple will become a heap of rubble. Allc who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

8

and this house, [which] is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished at, and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?

9

People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them — that is why the Lord brought all this disaster on them.’ ”

9

And they shall say, Because they forsook Jehovah their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have attached themselves to other gods, and have worshipped them and served them; therefore has Jehovah brought upon them all this evil.

10

Solomon’s Other Activities

At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings — the temple of the Lord and the royal palace —

10

Cities Given to Hiram

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king's house,

11

King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.

11

Hiram the king of Tyre having furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and cypress-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire, -- that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

12

But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

12

And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him; and they did not please him.

13

“What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?” he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul,d a name they have to this day.

13

And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this day.

14

Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talentse of gold.

14

And Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

15

Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,f the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.

15

Solomon's Numerous Achievements

And this is the account of the levy 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.

16

(Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

16

-- Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer, and burned it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

17

And Solomon rebuilt Gezer.) He built up Lower Beth Horon,

17

-- And Solomon built Gezer, and lower Beth-horon,

18

Baalath, and Tadmorg in the desert, within his land,

18

and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

19

as well as all his store cities and the towns for his chariots and for his horsesh — whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

19

and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and cities for chariots, and cities for the horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and on Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

20

There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites).

20

All the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel,

21

Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land — whom the Israelites could not exterminatei — to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.

21

their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, upon them did Solomon impose a tribute of bondservice until this day.

22

But Solomon did not make slaves of any of the Israelites; they were his fighting men, his government officials, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and charioteers.

22

But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen; but they were men of war, and his servants, and his chiefs, and his captains, and captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.

23

They were also the chief officials in charge of Solomon’s projects — 550 officials supervising those who did the work.

23

These were the chief superintendents that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, that ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

24

After Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces.

24

But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which he had built for her: then he built Millo.

25

Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense before the Lord along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.

25

And three times in the year did Solomon offer up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar that he had built to Jehovah, and he burned incense upon that which was before Jehovah. So he finished the house.

26

King Solomon also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.j

26

And king Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion-Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

27

And Hiram sent his men — sailors who knew the sea — to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s men.

27

And Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon;

28

They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talentsk of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

28

and they went to Ophir, and fetched thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

Parallel

New International Version

Darby Bible Translation

1 Kings 9

1 Kings 9