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 Kungaboken 9
nuBibeln (Swedish Contemporary Bible)
Gud varnar Salomo
(2 Krön 7:11-22)
9 När Salomo hade byggt färdigt Herrens hus och kungapalatset och uppnått allt annat som han hade längtat efter att få göra, 2 visade sig Herren för honom ännu en gång, så som han hade gjort i Givon. 3 Herren sa till honom:
”Jag har hört din bön och din vädjan. Jag har helgat det här templet som du byggt, och jag har satt mitt namn här för evigt. Mina ögon och mitt hjärta ska alltid vara där. 4 Om du nu vandrar mina vägar med ett ärligt och uppriktigt hjärta, som din far David gjorde inför mig, och i allting gör som jag befallt, följer mina bud och föreskrifter, 5 då ska jag låta ditt kungadöme bestå i Israel för all framtid, precis som jag lovade din far David, när jag sa till honom att det aldrig skulle saknas en ättling till honom på Israels tron.
6 Men om ni eller era barn vänder er bort och överger de befallningar och bud som jag gett er och börjar tjäna andra gudar och tillbe dem, 7 då ska jag utrota Israel ur det land som jag gav dem och förkasta detta hus som är helgat åt mitt namn. Israel kommer på så sätt att bli till ordspråk och nidvisa bland alla folk. 8 Detta hus som nu är så imponerande, ska var och en som går förbi häpet säga: ’Varför har Herren gjort så med detta land och detta tempel?’ 9 Svaret ska bli: ’Därför att de har övergett Herren, sin Gud, som förde deras förfäder ut ur Egypten och i stället hållit sig till andra gudar, tillbett och tjänat dem. Det är därför Herren lät allt detta onda drabba dem.’ ”
Salomos övriga bedrifter
(2 Krön 8:1-18)
10 Efter de tjugo år som det tagit för Salomo att bygga de två husen, Herrens hus och kungapalatset, 11 gav han kung Hiram i Tyros tjugo städer i Galileen, eftersom denne hade försett honom med allt ceder- och cypressträ och guld som han önskat få. 12 Men när Hiram kom från Tyros för att titta på städerna som Salomo gett honom, var han långt ifrån nöjd. 13 ”Vad är det här för städer, min broder?” frågade han. Och han gav dem namnet Kavul[a] som de än idag kallas. 14 Hiram hade levererat 4 000 kilo guld till Salomo.
15 Så här förhöll det sig med den tvångskommenderade arbetskraft som Salomo hade använt till Herrens hus, sitt kungapalats, Millo[b], Jerusalems mur och städerna Hasor, Megiddo och Geser. 16 Geser var den stad som anfallits och intagits av farao, kungen i Egypten. Han hade dödat dess kanaaneiska befolkning, bränt ner staden och sedan gett den som hemgift till sin dotter, en av Salomos hustrur. 17 Nu byggde Salomo upp Geser igen och även Nedre Bet Horon, 18 Baalat och Tamar i öknen. 19 Han byggde också upp förrådsstäder för sina vagnar och hästar. Han byggde allt som han önskade, både i Jerusalem, Libanon och över hela det område han härskade över.
20 Allt folk som fanns kvar av amoréerna, hettiterna, perisséerna, hivéerna och jevuséerna, som inte var israeliter, 21 deras ättlingar som var kvar i landet, som israeliterna inte hade förmått utrota, dem gjorde Salomo till tvångsarbetare som de är än idag. 22 Men han gjorde inga israeliter till slavar vid sina arbeten, utan de blev soldater, officerare, vagnskämpar och befälhavare för stridsvagnsstyrkor. 23 Fogdarna över Salomos projekt hade under sig 550 tillsyningsmän som hade befälet över dem som utförde tvångsarbetet. 24 När faraos dotter hade flyttat från Davids stad till palatset Salomo hade byggt åt henne, byggde han Millo[c].
25 Tre gånger om året offrade Salomo brännoffer och gemenskapsoffer på det altare som han hade byggt åt Herren och där tände han också rökelse inför Herren. Så hade han nu gjort templet färdigt.
26 Kung Salomo byggde också en fartygsflotta i Esjon-Gever nära Elot vid Sävhavets kust i Edom.
27 Hiram sände genom sina tjänare erfaret sjöfolk som tjänstgjorde i Salomos besättningar. 28 De seglade till Ofir och hämtade därifrån mer än femton ton[d] guld till kung Salomo.
1 Kings 9
International Standard Version
God Appears to Solomon(A)
9 Later, after Solomon had finished building the Lord’s Temple, the royal palace, and everything else that Solomon wanted to do, 2 the Lord appeared to Solomon for a second time, just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3 The Lord told him:
“I’ve heard your prayer and your request that you made to me. I have consecrated this Temple that you have built by placing my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there continuously.
4 “Now as for you, if you commune with me like your father did, with an upright heart of integrity and doing everything that I’ve commanded you and keeping my statutes and ordinances, 5 then I’ll make your royal throne secure forever, just as I agreed to do so for your father David when I said, ‘You are to not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’ 6 But if you or your descendants abandon me, and do not keep my commandments and statutes that I have given to you, and if you go away, serve other gods, and worship them, 7 then I will eliminate Israel from the land that I gave them and from the Temple that I’ve consecrated for my name. I will throw them out of my sight, and Israel will become the butt of jokes[a] and a means of ridicule among people worldwide!
8 “This Temple will become a pile of ruins. Everyone who passes by it will be so astounded that they will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and to this Temple?’ 9 They will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and served them. That’s why the Lord has brought all of this disaster on them.’”
Solomon Cedes Cities to Hiram
10 It took 20 years for Solomon to finish working on the two houses—the Lord’s Temple and the royal palace— 11 after which King Solomon gave Hiram 20 cities in the land of Galilee, because King Hiram of Tyre had provided Solomon with as much cedar, cypress timber, and gold as he wanted. 12 Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but he wasn’t happy with them, 13 so he asked him, “What are these cities that you have given to me, my brother?” That’s why these cities were named “the land of Cabal”[b] to this day. 14 Then Hiram paid the king 120 talents[c] of gold.
Solomon’s Other Accomplishments(B)
15 Here is a summary of the conscripted labor that King Solomon required to build the Lord’s Temple, his royal palace, the terrace ramparts in the City of David,[d] the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 16 Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer, burned it down, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and then gave it as a dowry for his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 17 So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, lower Beth-horon, 18 Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, 19 along with the storage cities that Solomon used for his chariots and for his cavalry, everything that Solomon felt like building in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in every territory under his control.
20 The people who survived from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not related to the Israelis, 21 and whose descendants had survived them and continued to live in the land because the Israelis were unable to completely eliminate them, Solomon placed under conscripted labor, a situation that remains in effect to this day. 22 However, Solomon did not force Israelis into conscripted labor, but they did serve as his soldiers, servants, princes, captains, chariot commanders, and cavalry. 23 There were 550 chief officers who supervised Solomon’s activities and managed the staff that was doing the work.
24 As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter arrived from the City of David to live in her house that Solomon[e] had built for her, then he fortified the terrace ramparts in the City of David.[f] 25 Three times every year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he had built to the Lord, burning incense with the offerings in the presence of the Lord.
This concludes the record of the Temple construction.
Solomon’s Business Ventures(C)
26 King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Reed[g] Sea in the land of Edom. 27 Hiram sent his servants to sail with the fleet, since they were expert seamen, and so they accompanied Solomon’s servants. 28 They sailed as far as Ophir[h] and brought back 420 talents[i] of gold for Solomon.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 9:7 Lit. become an object of mockery
- 1 Kings 9:13 The Heb. name Cabul means as good as nothing
- 1 Kings 9:14 I.e. about 9,000 pounds; a talent weighed about 75 pounds
- 1 Kings 9:15 Lit. the Millo, fortified areas of ancient Jerusalem with terraces and retaining walls
- 1 Kings 9:24 Lit. he
- 1 Kings 9:24 Lit. the Millo, fortified areas of ancient Jerusalem with terraces and retaining walls
- 1 Kings 9:26 So MT; LXX reads Red
- 1 Kings 9:28 Or as a source of fine gold; cf. 1Chr 29:4
- 1 Kings 9:28 I.e. about 31,500 pounds; a talent weighed about 75 pounds
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