King James Version

1 And it was when Solomon finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the desire of Solomon that he wished to do. 2 And the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3 And the LORD said to me, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before me; I have consecrated this house that you have built to put my name there forever, and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days." 4 And you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do all that I have commanded you, and keep my statutes and my judgments. 5 And I will establish your throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I spoke concerning David your father, saying, "There shall not be cut off for you a man from upon the throne of Israel." 6 If you turn back, you and your children, from following Me and do not keep My commandments and My statutes that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. 7 And I will cut off Israel from the face of the land which I gave to them, and the house which I consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all the nations. 8 And this house shall be the highest; everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and shall say, "Why has the Lord done this to this land and to this house?" 9 And they said concerning which they forsook the LORD their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they held fast to other gods and bowed down and worshipped them. Therefore the LORD brought upon them all this evil. 10 And it was at the end of twenty years that Solomon built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king. 11 Hiram king of Tyre brought to Solomon cedar trees and cypress trees and gold for all his desires; then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12 And Hiram went out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but they did not please him. 13 And he said, "What are these cities that you have given to me, my brother?" And he called them the land of Capability until this day. 14 And Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold. 15 And this is the matter of the burden that King Solomon raised to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the millo and the wall of Jerusalem and the courtyard and Megiddo and Gezer. 16 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, went up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire and the Canaanite who dwelt in the city he struck down and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife. 17 And Solomon built Gezer and Lower Beth-horon. 18 And (with) Baalat and (with) Tamar, the palm tree in the wilderness in the land. 19 And all the cities of the supply towns that were for Solomon, and the cities of chariots, and the cities of horsemen, and the desire of Solomon which he had for daughters in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion. 20 All the people who are left from the Amorite, Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite who are not of the children of Israel, they are. 21 The sons of them who remained after them in the land which the children of Israel were not able to devote to destruction, Solomon brought up for a tribute of forced labor until this day. 22 But to the sons of Israel, Solomon did not give servitude; they were men of war and his servants and his chief officers and his chariot commanders and his horsemen. 23 These are the leaders of the taskmasters who were over the work for Solomon, five hundred and fifty who ruled over the people who were doing the work. 24 But the daughter of Pharaoh went up from the city of David to her house that he built for her; then he built the mill. 25 And Solomon offered three times a year burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built for the Lord, and he burned incense with them before the Lord and finished the house. 26 And I made King Solomon in Ezion Geber, which is by Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent to Solomon his servants, men who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon. 28 And they came to Ophir and took from there four hundred and twenty talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon.