1 Kings 9 (NET)

1 Kings 9:1¹After Solomon finished building the Lord ’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 7:11-8:61 Kgs 9:191 Kgs 6:37-7:11 Kgs 7:511 Kgs 9:11Eccl 2:10Eccl 2:4Eccl 6:9

1 Kings 9:2²the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 3:52 Chr 7:121 Kgs 11:92 Chr 1:7-12

1 Kings 9:3³The 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:141 Kgs 8:292 Kgs 20:5Ps 10:17Ps 116:1Deut 11:122 Chr 6:40Ps 132:13-14Acts 10:31Exod 20:11

1 Kings 9:4⁴You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 15:51 Kgs 3:14Gen 17:11 Kgs 11:41 Kgs 11:61 Kgs 11:381 Kgs 14:8Deut 28:1Luke 1:6Prov 28:18

1 Kings 9:5⁵Then 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.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 2:41 Kgs 6:122 Sam 7:122 Sam 7:161 Chr 22:9-101 Kgs 8:151 Kgs 8:20Ps 132:11-12Ps 89:28-39

1 Kings 9:6⁶“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,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 28:92 Sam 7:14-161 Kgs 11:4-101 Sam 2:302 Chr 15:22 Chr 7:19-22Josh 23:15-16Ps 89:30Ps 89:32

1 Kings 9:7⁷then 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 24:9Ps 44:14Deut 28:37Deut 4:262 Kgs 25:212 Kgs 25:9Lev 18:24-28Luke 21:242 Chr 36:192 Chr 7:20

1 Kings 9:8⁸This 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?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 29:24-26Jer 22:8-92 Chr 7:21Jer 19:8Jer 22:28Dan 9:12Isa 64:11Jer 49:17Jer 50:13

1 Kings 9:9⁹Others 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.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 2:19Jer 5:192 Chr 7:22Deut 29:25-28Jer 2:10-13Ezek 36:17-20Jer 12:7-8Jer 16:10-13Jer 50:7Lam 2:16-17

1 Kings 9:10¹⁰After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord ’s temple and the royal palace,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 6:37-7:11 Kgs 9:12 Chr 8:1-18

1 Kings 9:11¹¹King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre twenty towns in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 8:21 Kgs 5:6-102 Chr 2:162 Chr 2:8-10Josh 20:7

1 Kings 9:12¹²When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 14:3Num 22:34

1 Kings 9:13¹³Hiram asked, “Why did you give me these towns, my friend?” He called that area the region of Cabul, a name which it has retained to this day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 19:27Amos 1:91 Kgs 5:1-2

1 Kings 9:14¹⁴Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 9:111 Kgs 10:101 Kgs 10:141 Kgs 10:211 Kgs 9:28

1 Kings 9:15¹⁵Here 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 5:131 Kgs 9:242 Sam 5:9Josh 17:11Josh 11:1Josh 19:36Josh 16:10Judg 1:291 Chr 20:41 Chr 6:67

1 Kings 9:16¹⁶(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.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 3:11 Kgs 7:81 Kgs 9:24Josh 16:10

1 Kings 9:17¹⁷Solomon built up Gezer, lower Beth Horon,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 16:3Josh 21:222 Chr 8:4-18Josh 10:10Josh 19:44

1 Kings 9:18¹⁸Baalath, Tadmor in the wilderness,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 19:442 Chr 8:4

1 Kings 9:19¹⁹all 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 9:11 Kgs 10:261 Kgs 4:26-282 Chr 1:14Eccl 2:10Eccl 6:9Exod 1:11

1 Kings 9:20²⁰Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 8:7-18Deut 7:1-3Exod 23:23Exod 23:28-33Exod 34:11-12Gen 15:19-21

1 Kings 9:21²¹Their 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 15:63Josh 17:12Judg 1:21Gen 9:25-26Ezra 2:55-58Neh 11:3Neh 7:571 Kgs 5:131 Kgs 9:15Josh 17:16-18

1 Kings 9:22²²Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 25:391 Kgs 4:1-271 Sam 8:11-122 Chr 8:9-10

1 Kings 9:23²³These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 5:162 Chr 8:102 Chr 2:18

1 Kings 9:24²⁴Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh’s daughter moved up from the City of David to the palace Solomon built for her.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:81 Kgs 11:272 Chr 32:52 Sam 5:91 Kgs 3:11 Kgs 9:15-162 Chr 8:11

1 Kings 9:25²⁵Three 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 8:12-132 Chr 8:16Deut 16:16Exod 23:14-171 Chr 23:131 Kgs 6:382 Chr 26:16-212 Chr 29:112 Chr 34:25Exod 30:7

1 Kings 9:26²⁶King Solomon also built ships in Ezion Geber, which is located near Elat in the land of Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:48Deut 2:8Num 33:352 Chr 8:11-122 Chr 8:17-182 Kgs 14:22

1 Kings 9:27²⁷Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors, who were well acquainted with the sea, to serve with Solomon’s men.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 10:111 Kgs 5:61 Kgs 5:91 Kgs 22:492 Chr 20:36-37

1 Kings 9:28²⁸They sailed to Ophir, took from there 420 talents of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 29:42 Chr 8:181 Kgs 10:11Isa 13:12Job 22:24Job 28:16Ps 45:92 Chr 9:10Gen 10:29