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1 Kings 9
Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible
And it came to pass when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the work of Solomon, whatever he wished to perform,
Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
that the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he appeared in Gabaon.
the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
And the Lord said to him, I have heard the voice of thy prayer, and thy supplication which thou madest before me: I have done for thee according to all thy prayer: I have hallowed this house which thou hast built to put my name there for ever, and mine eyes and my heart shall be there always.
And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
And if thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked, in holiness of heart and uprightness, and so as to do according to all that I commanded him, and shalt keep my ordinances and my commandments:
And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom in Israel for ever, as I spoke to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to rule in Israel.
then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
But if ye or your children do in any wise revolt from me, and do not keep my commandments and my ordinances, which Moses set before you, and ye go and serve other gods, and worship them:
But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and a by-word to all nations.
then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
And this house, which is high, shall be [so that] every one that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?
And when this temple has become a heap of rubble (note: Some LXX manuscripts, Syriac, and Arabic; Hebrew And though this temple is now exalted; see also 2 Chronicles 7:21.), all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
And [men] shall say, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought out their fathers from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and they attached themselves to strange gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore the Lord has brought this evil upon them.
And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
[During] twenty years in which Solomon was building the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king,
Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
Chiram king of Tyre helped Solomon with cedar wood, and fir wood, and with gold, and all that he wished for: then the king gave Chiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress (note: Or pine or juniper or fir) logs and gold for his every desire.
So Chiram departed from Tyre, and went into Galilee to see the cities which Solomon gave to him; and they pleased him not. And he said,
So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
What [are] these cities which thou hast given me, brother? And he called them Boundary until this day.
“What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram, and he called them the Land of Cabul (note: Cabul sounds like the Hebrew for good-for-nothing.), as they are called to this day.
And Chiram brought to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold,
And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold (note: 120 talents is approximately 4.52 tons or 4.1 metric tons of gold.).
even that for which king Solomon built a ship in Gasion Gaber near Ælath on the shore of the extremity of the sea in the land of Edom.
King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth (note: Eloth is a variant of Elath; see LXX, 2 Kings 14:22, and 2 Kings 16:6.) in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea (note: Or the Sea of Reeds).
And Chiram sent in the ship together with the servants of Solomon servants of his own, mariners to row, men acquainted with the sea.
And Hiram sent his servants, sailors who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
And they came to Sophira, and took thence a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents (note: 420 talents is approximately 15.8 tons or 14.4 metric tons of gold.)—and delivered it to Solomon.