1 Kings 9 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And it came to be, when Shelomoh had finished building the House of יהוה  and the house of the sovereign, and all the desire of Shelomoh which he was pleased to do,

² that יהוה  appeared to Shelomoh the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibʽ

³ And יהוה  said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me. I have set this house apart which you have built to put My Name there forever, and My eyes and My heart shall always be there.

⁴ “And you, if you walk before Me as your father Dawiḏ

⁵ then I shall establish the throne of your reign over Yisra’ĕ

⁶ “If you at all turn back, you or your sons, from following Me, and do not guard My commands, My laws, which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other mighty ones and bow yourselves to them,

⁷ then I shall cut off Yisra’ĕ

⁸ “And this house, which has been exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and hiss, and say, ‘Why has יהוה  done thus to this land and to this house?’

⁹ “Then they shall say, ‘Because they have forsaken יהוה  their Elohim, who brought their fathers out of the land of Mitsrayim, and they embraced other mighty ones, and bowed themselves to them and served them. That is why יהוה  has brought all this evil on them.’ ”

¹⁰ And it came to be, at the end of twenty years, that Shelomoh had built the two houses, the House of יהוה  and the house of the sovereign.

¹¹ Ḥ

¹² And Ḥ

¹³ and he said, “What are these cities you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Kaḇ

¹⁴ And Ḥ

¹⁵ And this is the purpose of the compulsory labour which Sovereign Shelomoh raised, to build the House of יהוה, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Yerushalayim, and Ḥ

¹⁶ Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, and had slain the Kenaʽ

¹⁷ and Shelomoh built Gezer, and Lower Bĕ

¹⁸ and Baʽ

¹⁹ and all the storage cities that Shelomoh had, and cities for his chariots and cities for his cavalry, and whatever Shelomoh desired to build in Yerushalayim, and in Leḇ

²⁰ All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Ḥ

²¹ their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Yisra’ĕ

²² But Shelomoh did not make slaves of the children of Yisra’ĕ

²³ These were the chiefs of the officials who were over the work of Shelomoh: five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people who did the work.

²⁴ But the daughter of Pharaoh came up from the City of Dawiḏ

²⁵ And three times a year Shelomoh brought burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he had built for יהוה, and he burned incense with that which was before יהוה  – thus gave completeness to the House.

²⁶ And Sovereign Shelomoh built a fleet of ships at Etsyon Geḇ

²⁷ And Ḥ

²⁸ And they went to Ophir, and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to Sovereign Shelomoh.