1 Kings 9
1AND when king Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and every design which it was his pleasure to execute,
2the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time as He appeared at Gabaon and said to him,
3I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication which thou hast made before Me, and have done for thee according to all thy prayer. I have hallowed this house which thou hast built to put My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart shall be there continually.
4And if thou wilt walk before Me, as thy father David did, with integrity of heart and with uprightness, and do according to all that I commanded him, and keep My statutes and My commandments,
5I will establish the throne of thy kingdom in Israel for this age, as I promised thy father David, saying, There shall not fail thee a man ruling in Israel.
6But if you and your children turn aside from Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes, which Moses hath laid before you, but go and serve strange gods and worship them;
7I will assuredly remove Israel from the land which I gave them, and cast out of My sight this house which I have hallowed for My name; and Israel shall be a desolation and a byword among all peoples;
8and this stately house shall be reduced to such a condition that everyone who passeth by it will be astonished and will, with expressions of pity, say, Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this land and with this house?
9To which answer will be made, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of Egypt—out of the house of bondage; and in His stead chose strange gods, and worshipped and served them, therefore the Lord hath brought upon them this calamity.
10Then Solomon brought Pharao’s daughter up out of the city of David to the house which he had built for himself. In those days, during the twenty years in which Solomon was building the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house,
11Chiram, king of Tyre, supplied Solomon with cedar timber and pine trees, and with gold and whatever he desired; therefore the king then gave Chiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12But when Chiram came from Tyre and went to Galilee to see the cities which Solomon gave him, they did not please him; therefore he said,
13What are these cities, my brother, which thou hast given me? And he called them Little Mount, which is now their name.
14Nevertheless Chiram brought Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
26For on board the fleet which king Solomon built at Gasion-Gaber, and which was then at Ailath, on the border of the farther sea in the land of Edom—
27in this fleet Chiram sent some of his servants who were seamen and skilled in the navigation of that sea, along with the servants of Solomon,
28and they went to Sophira and took thence a hundred and twenty talents of gold and brought it to king Solomon.