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1 Kings 9
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The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning

9 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned,[a] 2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon.[b] 3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered[c] your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home;[d] I will be constantly present there.[e] 4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.[f] 5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently,[g] just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’[h]

6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep,[i] and decide to serve and worship other gods,[j] 7 then I will remove Israel from the land[k] I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence,[l] and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed[m] among all the nations. 8 This temple will become a heap of ruins;[n] everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn,[o] saying, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’ 9 Others will then answer,[p] ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors[q] out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served.[r] That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”

Foreign Affairs and Building Projects

10 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace,[s] 11 King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre twenty towns in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted. 12 When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.[t] 13 Hiram asked,[u] “Why did you give me these towns, my friend?”[v] He called that area the region of Cabul, a name which it has retained to this day.[w] 14 Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents[x] of gold.

15 Here are the details concerning the work crews[y] King Solomon conscripted[z] to build the Lord’s temple, his palace, the terrace, the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of[aa] Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.) 17 Solomon built up Gezer, lower Beth Horon, 18 Baalath, Tadmor in the wilderness,[ab] 19 all the storage cities that belonged to him,[ac] and the cities where chariots and horses were kept.[ad] He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.[ae] 20 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.[af] 21 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day.[ag] 22 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews;[ah] the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces.[ai] 23 These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers.[aj] 24 Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh’s daughter moved up from the City of David[ak] to the palace Solomon built for her.[al]

25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings[am] on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place.[an]

26 King Solomon also built ships[ao] in Ezion Geber, which is located near Elat in the land of Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea. 27 Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors, who were well acquainted with the sea, to serve with Solomon’s men.[ap] 28 They sailed[aq] to Ophir, took from there 420 talents[ar] of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:1 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”
  2. 1 Kings 9:2 sn In the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. See 1 Kgs 3:5.
  3. 1 Kings 9:3 tn Heb “I have heard.”
  4. 1 Kings 9:3 tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).
  5. 1 Kings 9:3 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”
  6. 1 Kings 9:4 tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.
  7. 1 Kings 9:5 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”
  8. 1 Kings 9:5 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
  9. 1 Kings 9:6 tn Heb “which I placed before you.”
  10. 1 Kings 9:6 tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”
  11. 1 Kings 9:7 tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”
  12. 1 Kings 9:7 tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”sn Instead of “I will send away,” the parallel text in 2 Chr 7:20 has “I will throw away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.
  13. 1 Kings 9:7 tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.
  14. 1 Kings 9:8 tn Heb “and this house will be high [or elevated].” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”
  15. 1 Kings 9:8 tn Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.
  16. 1 Kings 9:9 tn Heb “and they will say.”
  17. 1 Kings 9:9 tn Heb “fathers.”
  18. 1 Kings 9:9 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”
  19. 1 Kings 9:10 tn Heb “the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king.”
  20. 1 Kings 9:12 tn Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”
  21. 1 Kings 9:13 tn Heb “and he said.”
  22. 1 Kings 9:13 tn Heb “my brother.” Kings allied through a parity treaty would sometimes address each other as “my brother.” See 1 Kgs 20:32-33.
  23. 1 Kings 9:13 tn Heb “he called them the land of Cabul to this day.” The significance of the name is unclear, though it appears to be disparaging. The name may be derived from a root, attested in Akkadian and Arabic, meaning “bound” or “restricted.” Some propose a wordplay, pointing out that the name “Cabul” sounds like a Hebrew phrase meaning, “like not,” or “as good as nothing.”
  24. 1 Kings 9:14 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”
  25. 1 Kings 9:15 sn The work crews. This Hebrew word מַס (mas) refers to a group of laborers conscripted for royal or public service.
  26. 1 Kings 9:15 tn Heb “raised up.”
  27. 1 Kings 9:15 tn The words “the cities of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
  28. 1 Kings 9:18 tn The Hebrew text has “in the wilderness, in the land.”
  29. 1 Kings 9:19 tn Heb “to Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  30. 1 Kings 9:19 tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”
  31. 1 Kings 9:19 tn Heb “and the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”
  32. 1 Kings 9:20 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from the sons of Israel.”
  33. 1 Kings 9:21 tn Heb “their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were unable to wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a crew of labor to this day.”
  34. 1 Kings 9:22 sn These work crews. The work crews referred to here must be different than the temporary crews described in 5:13-16.
  35. 1 Kings 9:22 tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”
  36. 1 Kings 9:23 tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who were over the work belonging to Solomon, five hundred fifty, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”
  37. 1 Kings 9:24 sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
  38. 1 Kings 9:24 tn Heb “As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the City of David to her house which he built for her, then he built the terrace.”
  39. 1 Kings 9:25 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
  40. 1 Kings 9:25 tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”
  41. 1 Kings 9:26 tn Or “a fleet” (in which case “ships” would be implied).
  42. 1 Kings 9:27 tn Heb “and Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, men of ships, [who] know the sea, [to be] with the servants of Solomon.”
  43. 1 Kings 9:28 tn Heb “went.”
  44. 1 Kings 9:28 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”
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Pacto de Dios con Salomón

9 (A)Y sucedió que cuando Salomón había acabado de edificar la casa del Señor, la casa del rey y todo lo que Salomón deseaba hacer[a](B), 2 el Señor se apareció a Salomón por segunda vez, tal como se le había aparecido en Gabaón(C). 3 Y el Señor le dijo: He oído tu oración y tu súplica(D) que has hecho delante de mí; he consagrado esta casa que has edificado, poniendo allí mi nombre para siempre(E); en ella[b] estarán mis ojos(F) y mi corazón perpetuamente. 4 Y en cuanto a ti, si andas delante de mí como anduvo tu padre David, en integridad de corazón y en rectitud, haciendo conforme a todo lo que te he mandado, y guardas mis estatutos y mis ordenanzas(G), 5 yo afirmaré el trono de tu reino sobre Israel para siempre, tal como prometí[c] a tu padre David, diciendo: «No te faltará[d] hombre sobre el trono de Israel(H)». 6 Pero si en verdad vosotros o vuestros hijos os apartáis de mí[e] y no guardáis mis mandamientos y mis estatutos(I) que he puesto delante de vosotros, y os vais y servís a otros dioses y los adoráis, 7 entonces cortaré a Israel de sobre la faz de la tierra que les he dado(J); y la casa que he consagrado a mi nombre(K) la echaré[f] de mi presencia, e Israel se convertirá en refrán y escarnio entre todos los pueblos(L). 8 Y esta casa se convertirá en un montón de ruinas[g](M), todo el que pase quedará atónito y silbará; y dirán: «¿Por qué ha hecho así el Señor a esta tierra y a esta casa(N)?». 9 Y responderán: «Porque abandonaron al Señor su Dios, que sacó a sus padres de la tierra de Egipto, y tomaron para sí otros dioses, los adoraron y los sirvieron; por eso el Señor ha traído toda esta adversidad sobre ellos(O)».

Otras actividades de Salomón

10 (P)Y sucedió al cabo de los veinte años, en los cuales Salomón había edificado las dos casas, la casa del Señor y la casa del rey(Q) 11 (Hiram, rey de Tiro, había proporcionado a Salomón maderas de cedro y de ciprés y oro conforme a todo su deseo), que el rey Salomón dio a Hiram veinte ciudades en la tierra de Galilea. 12 Y salió Hiram de Tiro para ver las ciudades que Salomón le había dado, y no le gustaron[h]. 13 Y dijo: ¿Qué son estas ciudades que me has dado, hermano mío? Por eso fueron llamadas[i] tierra de Cabul[j](R) hasta hoy. 14 Hiram había enviado al rey ciento veinte talentos[k] de oro(S).

15 Y este es el motivo de la leva que el rey Salomón(T) impuso[l] para edificar la casa del Señor, su propia casa, el Milo[m](U), el muro de Jerusalén, Hazor(V), Meguido(W) y Gezer(X). 16 Pues Faraón, rey de Egipto, había subido y capturado Gezer, le había prendido fuego, había matado a los cananeos(Y) que habitaban en la ciudad, y la había dado en dote a su hija, la mujer de Salomón(Z). 17 Y Salomón reconstruyó Gezer y Bet-horón de abajo(AA), 18 y Baalat(AB) y Tadmor en el desierto, en la tierra de Judá, 19 y todas las ciudades de almacenaje que Salomón tenía, y las ciudades de sus[n] carros y las ciudades para sus[o] hombres de a caballo(AC), y todo lo que Salomón quiso[p] edificar(AD) en Jerusalén, en el Líbano y en toda la tierra de su dominio. 20 A todo el pueblo que había quedado de los amorreos, hititas, ferezeos, heveos y jebuseos, que no eran de los hijos de Israel, 21 es decir, a sus descendientes que habían quedado en la tierra después de ellos, a quienes los hijos de Israel no habían podido destruir completamente(AE), Salomón les impuso(AF) leva de servidumbre(AG) hasta el día de hoy. 22 Mas de los hijos de Israel Salomón no hizo esclavos(AH), porque ellos eran hombres de guerra, sus servidores, sus príncipes, sus capitanes, los comandantes de sus carros y sus hombres de a caballo.

23 Estos eran los oficiales[q] que estaban al frente de la obra de Salomón, quinientos cincuenta, quienes supervisaban al pueblo(AI) que hacía la obra(AJ).

24 Tan pronto como la hija de Faraón subió de la ciudad de David a la casa que le había construido Salomón(AK), entonces él edificó el Milo[r](AL).

25 Y tres veces al año(AM) Salomón ofrecía holocaustos y ofrendas de paz sobre el altar que él había edificado al Señor, quemando incienso al mismo tiempo[s] sobre el altar que estaba delante del Señor después que terminó la casa.

26 El rey Salomón también construyó una flota en Ezión-geber(AN), que está cerca de Elot, en la ribera del mar Rojo[t], en la tierra de Edom. 27 Y envió Hiram(AO) a sus siervos con la flota, marineros que conocían el mar, junto con los siervos de Salomón. 28 Y fueron a Ofir, y de allí tomaron cuatrocientos veinte talentos de oro que llevaron al rey Salomón(AP).

Footnotes

  1. 1 Reyes 9:1 Lit., y todo el deseo de Salomón que le agradaba hacer
  2. 1 Reyes 9:3 Lit., allí
  3. 1 Reyes 9:5 Lit., hablé
  4. 1 Reyes 9:5 Lit., No te será cortado
  5. 1 Reyes 9:6 Lit., os volvéis de seguirme
  6. 1 Reyes 9:7 Lit., enviaré
  7. 1 Reyes 9:8 Así en algunas versiones antiguas; en el T.M., será exaltada
  8. 1 Reyes 9:12 Lit., no eran correctas a sus ojos
  9. 1 Reyes 9:13 Lit., él las llamó
  10. 1 Reyes 9:13 I.e., inútil
  11. 1 Reyes 9:14 Un talento equivale aprox. a 34 kg.
  12. 1 Reyes 9:15 Lit., levantó
  13. 1 Reyes 9:15 I.e., la fortaleza
  14. 1 Reyes 9:19 Lit., los
  15. 1 Reyes 9:19 Lit., los
  16. 1 Reyes 9:19 Lit., y el deseo de Salomón que deseó
  17. 1 Reyes 9:23 Lit., oficiales de los capataces
  18. 1 Reyes 9:24 I.e., la fortaleza
  19. 1 Reyes 9:25 Lit., con ello
  20. 1 Reyes 9:26 Lit., mar de Cañas
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