1 Kings 9
New King James Version
God’s Second Appearance to Solomon(A)
9 And (B)it came to pass, when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord (C)and the king’s house, and (D)all Solomon’s desire which he wanted to do, 2 that the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, (E)as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3 And the Lord said to him: (F)“I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built (G)to put My name there forever, (H)and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. 4 Now if you (I)walk before Me (J)as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you (K)keep My statutes and My judgments, 5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, (L)as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’ 6 (M)But if you or your sons at all [a]turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 7 (N)then I will [b]cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated (O)for My name I will cast out of My sight. (P)Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8 And as for (Q)this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, (R)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ 9 Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought all this (S)calamity on them.’ ”
Solomon and Hiram Exchange Gifts
10 Now (T)it happened at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house 11 (U)(Hiram the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress and gold, as much as he desired), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12 Then Hiram went from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, but they did not please him. 13 So he said, “What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” (V)And he called them the land of [c]Cabul, as they are to this day. 14 Then Hiram sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.
Solomon’s Additional Achievements(W)
15 And this is the reason for (X)the labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of the Lord, his own house, [d]the (Y)Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, (Z)Hazor, (AA)Megiddo, and (AB)Gezer. 16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, (AC)had killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.) 17 And Solomon built Gezer, Lower (AD)Beth Horon, 18 (AE)Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, 19 all the storage cities that Solomon had, cities for (AF)his chariots and cities for his (AG)cavalry, and whatever Solomon (AH)desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20 (AI)All the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel— 21 that is, their descendants (AJ)who were left in the land after them, (AK)whom the children of Israel had not been able to destroy completely—(AL)from these Solomon raised (AM)forced labor, as it is to this day. 22 But of the children of Israel Solomon (AN)made no forced laborers, because they were men of war and his servants: his officers, his captains, commanders of his chariots, and his cavalry.
23 Others were chiefs of the officials who were over Solomon’s work: (AO)five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people who did the work.
24 But (AP)Pharaoh’s daughter came up from the City of David to (AQ)her house which [e]Solomon had built for her. (AR)Then he built the Millo.
25 (AS)Now three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he had built for the Lord, and he burned incense with them on the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the temple.
26 (AT)King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at (AU)Ezion Geber, which is near [f]Elath on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 (AV)Then Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, seamen who knew the sea, to work with the servants of Solomon. 28 And they went to (AW)Ophir, and acquired four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 9:6 turn back
- 1 Kings 9:7 destroy
- 1 Kings 9:13 Lit. Good for Nothing
- 1 Kings 9:15 Lit. The Landfill
- 1 Kings 9:24 Lit. he; cf. 2 Chr. 8:11
- 1 Kings 9:26 Heb. Eloth
1 Re 9
La Nuova Diodati
9 Dopo che Salomone ebbe terminato di costruire la casa dell'Eterno, il palazzo reale e tutto ciò che Salomone desiderava e intendeva fare,
2 l'Eterno apparve una seconda volta a Salomone come gli era apparso a Gabaon,
3 e l'Eterno gli disse: «Io ho esaudito la tua preghiera e la supplica che hai fatto davanti a me; ho santificato questo tempio che tu hai edificato per mettervi il mio nome per sempre; là saranno per sempre i miei occhi e il mio cuore.
4 Quanto a te, se camminerai davanti a me come ha camminato Davide tuo padre, con integrità di cuore e con rettitudine, facendo tutto ciò che ti ho comandato, e se osserverai i miei statuti e i miei decreti,
5 Io renderò stabile il trono del tuo regno su Israele per sempre come ho promesso a Davide tuo padre, dicendo: "Non ti mancherà mai qualcuno che sieda sul trono d'Israele".
6 Ma se voi o i vostri figli vi ritrarrete da me e non osserverete i miei comandamenti e i miei statuti che ho posto davanti a voi e andrete a servire altri dèi e a prostrarvi davanti a loro,
7 io sterminerò Israele dalla faccia del paese che gli ho dato e rigetterò dalla mia presenza il tempio che ho consacrato al mio nome; cosí Israele diventerà la favola e lo zimbello di tutti i popoli.
8 E questo tempio, sebbene cosí imponente, sarà desolato; chiunque poi gli passera vicino rimarrà stupito e fischierà, e dirà: "Perché l'Eterno ha trattato così questo paese e questo tempio?".
9 Allora gli risponderanno: "Perché hanno abbandonato l'Eterno, il loro DIO, che ha fatto uscire i loro padri dal paese d'Egitto e hanno aderito ad altri dei, si sono prostrati davanti a loro e li hanno serviti; per questo l'Eterno ha fatto venire su di loro tutta questa calamita».
10 Venti anni dopo che Salomone aveva costruito i due edifici, la casa dell'Eterno e il palazzo reale,
11 (Hiram, re di Tiro, aveva fornito a Salomone tutto il legno di cedro e di cipresso e l'oro che desiderava) il re Salomone diede a Hiram venti città nel paese di Galilea.
12 Hiram venne da Tiro per vedere le città che Salomone gli aveva dato, ma non gli piacquero;
13 e disse: «Che città sono queste che mi hai dato, fratello mio?». E le chiamò "paese di Kabul", nome in uso fino al giorno d'oggi.
14 Poi Hiram mandò al re centoventi talenti d'oro.
15 Questo è il resoconto del lavoro forzato che il re Salomone reclutò per costruire la casa dell'Eterno, la sua propria casa, Millo, le mura di Gerusalemme Hatsor, Meghiddo e Ghezer.
16 (Il Faraone, re d'Egitto, era salito e aveva espugnato Ghezer, l'aveva data alle fiamme ed aveva ucciso i Cananei che abitavano in città; poi l'aveva data in dote a sua figlia, moglie di Salomone).
17 Quindi Salomone ricostruí Ghezer Beth-Horon inferiore,
18 Baalath e Tadmor nella parte deserta del paese,
19 tutte le città di rifornimento appartenenti a Salomone, le città per i suoi carri, le città per la sua cavalleria, tutto ciò che piacque a Salomone costruire in Gerusalemme, nel Libano e in tutto il paese del suo dominio.
20 Tutta la gente rimasta degli Amorei, degli Hittei, dei Perezei, degli Hivvei e dei Gebusei, che non erano dei figli d'Israele,
21 cioè i loro discendenti che erano rimasti dopo di loro nel paese e che gli Israeliti non erano riusciti a votare allo sterminio, Salomone li reclutò per il lavoro forzato fino al giorno d'oggi.
22 Ma dei figli d'Israele, Salomone non impiegò alcuno per i lavori forzati; essi erano invece i suoi uomini di guerra, i suoi servi, i suoi ministri, i suoi principi, i suoi capitani, i comandanti dei suoi carri e i suoi cavalieri.
23 I capi dei funzionari che dirigevano i lavori di Salomone erano cinquecentocinquanta; essi sorvegliavano la gente che eseguiva i lavori.
24 Dopo che la figlia del Faraone si trasferí dalla città di Davide alla casa che Salomone le aveva fatto costruire, questi si mise a costruire Millo.
25 Tre volte all'anno Salomone offriva olocausti e sacrifici di ringraziamento sull'altare che egli aveva costruito all'Eterno e bruciava incenso sull'altare che era davanti all'Eterno. Cosí terminò il tempio.
26 Il re Salomone costruí anche una flotta ad Etsion-Gheber, presso Elath sulla riva del Mar Rosso, nel paese di Edom.
27 Hiram mandò sulle navi della flotta i suoi servi, marinai che conoscevano il mare, a lavorare con i servi di Salomone.
28 Essi andarono ad Ofir, dove presero quattrocentoventi talenti d'oro e li portarono a Salomone.
1 Kings 9
English Standard Version
The Lord Appears to Solomon
9 (A)As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord (B)and the king's house and (C)all that Solomon desired to build, 2 (D)the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 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, (E)by putting my name there forever. (F)My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. 4 And as for you, if you will (G)walk before me, (H)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, 5 (I)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.’ 6 (J)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, 7 (K)then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, (L)and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, (M)and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8 And this house will become a heap of ruins.[a] Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, (N)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ 9 Then they will say, ‘Because (O)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
10 (P)At the end of (Q)twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house, 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. 12 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him. 13 Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of (R)Cabul to this day. 14 Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents[b] of gold.
15 And this is the account of (S)the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and (T)the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and (U)Hazor and (V)Megiddo and Gezer 16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed (W)the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to (X)his daughter, Solomon's wife; 17 so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and (Y)Lower Beth-horon 18 and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,[c] 19 and all the store cities that Solomon had, and (Z)the cities for his chariots, and the cities for (AA)his horsemen, and whatever Solomon (AB)desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 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— 21 (AC)their descendants who were left after them in the land, (AD)whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction[d]—(AE)these Solomon drafted to be (AF)slaves, and so they are to this day. 22 But (AG)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.
23 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work: (AH)550 (AI)who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
24 But (AJ)Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to (AK)her own house that Solomon had built for her. (AL)Then he built (AM)the Millo.
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[e] before the Lord. So he finished the house.
26 King Solomon built a fleet of ships at (AN)Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent (AO)with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon. 28 And they went to (AP)Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 9:8 Syriac, Old Latin; Hebrew will become high
- 1 Kings 9:14 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
- 1 Kings 9:18 Hebrew lacks of Judah
- 1 Kings 9:21 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
- 1 Kings 9:25 Septuagint lacks with it
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