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Text -- 1 Kings 9:1-28 (NET)
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The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning
9:1 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple , the royal palace , and all the other construction projects he had planned ,
9:2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time , in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon .
9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered 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 ; I will be constantly present there.
9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity , just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations .
9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently , just as I promised your father David , ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel .’
9:6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep , and decide to serve and worship other gods ,
9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence , and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations .
9:8 This temple will become a heap of ruins ; everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn , saying , ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple ?’
9:9 Others will then answer , ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God , who led their ancestors out of Egypt . They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served . That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
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9:10 After twenty years , during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace ,
9:11 King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre twenty cities in the region of Galilee , because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars , evergreens , and all the gold he wanted .
9:12 When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.
9:13 Hiram asked , “Why did you give me these cities , my friend ?” He called that area the region of Cabul , a name which it has retained to this day .
9:14 Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold .
9:15 Here are the details concerning the work crews King Solomon conscripted to build the Lord’s temple , his palace , the terrace , the wall of Jerusalem , and the cities of Hazor , Megiddo , and Gezer .
9:16 (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 .)
9:17 Solomon built up Gezer , lower Beth Horon ,
9:18 Baalath , Tadmor in the wilderness ,
9:19 all the storage cities that belonged to him , and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem , Lebanon , and throughout his entire kingdom .
9:20 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites , Hittites , Perizzites , Hivites , and Jebusites .
9:21 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 .
9:22 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews ; the Israelites served as his soldiers , attendants , officers , charioteers , and commanders of his chariot forces .
9:23 These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers .
9:24 Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh’s daughter moved up from the city of David to the palace Solomon built for her.
9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings 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.
9:26 King Solomon also built ships in Ezion Geber , which is located near Elat in the land of Edom , on the shore of the Red Sea .
9:27 Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors , who were well acquainted with the sea , to serve with Solomon’s men .
9:28 They sailed to Ophir , took from there four hundred twenty talents of gold , and then brought them to King Solomon .
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NET Notes -> 1Ki 9:1; 1Ki 9:2; 1Ki 9:3; 1Ki 9:3; 1Ki 9:3; 1Ki 9:4; 1Ki 9:5; 1Ki 9:5; 1Ki 9:6; 1Ki 9:6; 1Ki 9:7; 1Ki 9:7; 1Ki 9:7; 1Ki 9:7; 1Ki 9:8; 1Ki 9:8; 1Ki 9:9; 1Ki 9:9; 1Ki 9:9; 1Ki 9:10; 1Ki 9:11; 1Ki 9:12; 1Ki 9:13; 1Ki 9:13; 1Ki 9:13; 1Ki 9:14; 1Ki 9:15; 1Ki 9:15; 1Ki 9:15; 1Ki 9:15; 1Ki 9:15; 1Ki 9:15; 1Ki 9:18; 1Ki 9:19; 1Ki 9:19; 1Ki 9:19; 1Ki 9:20; 1Ki 9:21; 1Ki 9:22; 1Ki 9:22; 1Ki 9:23; 1Ki 9:24; 1Ki 9:24; 1Ki 9:25; 1Ki 9:25; 1Ki 9:26; 1Ki 9:27; 1Ki 9:28; 1Ki 9:28
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NET Notes: 1Ki 9:4 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 yo...
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NET Notes: 1Ki 9:7 Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.
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NET Notes: 1Ki 9:8 Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.
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NET Notes: 1Ki 9:13 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...
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NET Notes: 1Ki 9:14 The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When use...
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NET Notes: 1Ki 9:19 Heb “and the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”
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NET Notes: 1Ki 9:20 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...
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NET Notes: 1Ki 9:21 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 ...
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NET Notes: 1Ki 9:23 Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who were over the work belonging to Solomon, five hundred fifty, the ones ruling over the peopl...
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NET Notes: 1Ki 9:24 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.”
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NET Notes: 1Ki 9:27 Heb “and Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, men of ships, [who] know the sea, [to be] with the servants of Solomon.”
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