Verse 5
1 Kings 9:5
New Living Translation
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then I will establish the throne of your dynasty over Israel forever. For I made this promise to your father, David: ‘One of your descendants will always sit on the throne of Israel.’<br>
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/הֲקִ֨מֹתִ֜י אֶת כִּסֵּ֧א מַֽמְלַכְתְּ/ךָ֛ עַל יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְ/עֹלָ֑ם כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבַּ֗רְתִּי עַל דָּוִ֤ד אָבִ֨י/ךָ֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר לֹֽא יִכָּרֵ֤ת לְ/ךָ֙ אִ֔ישׁ מֵ/עַ֖ל כִּסֵּ֥א יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
English Translation
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."
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Chapter 9 Context
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So Solomon finished building the Temple of the LORD, as well as the royal palace. He completed every...
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Then the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had done before at Gibeon.
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The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your petition. I have set this Temple apart to b...
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“As for you, if you will follow me with integrity and godliness, as David your father did, obeying a...
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then I will establish the throne of your dynasty over Israel forever. For I made this promise to you...
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“But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the commands and decrees I have given you, an...
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then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I ha...
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8
And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled and will gasp in horror....
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9
“And the answer will be, ‘Because his people abandoned the LORD their God (Elohim), who brought thei...
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10
It took Solomon twenty years to build the LORD’s Temple and his own royal palace. At the end of that...
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he gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to King Hiram of Tyre. (Hiram had previously provided al...
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But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, he was not at all pleased with...
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“What kind of towns are these, my brother?” he asked. So Hiram called that area Cabul (which means “...
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14
Nevertheless, Hiram paid Solomon 9,000 pounds of gold.
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This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD’s Temple, th...
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(Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer, killing the Canaanite population and b...
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So Solomon rebuilt the city of Gezer.) He also built up the towns of Lower Beth-horon,
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Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness within his land.
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He built towns as supply centers and constructed towns where his chariots and horses could be statio...
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There were still some people living in the land who were not Israelites, including Amorites, Hittite...
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These were descendants of the nations whom the people of Israel had not completely destroyed. So Sol...
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But Solomon did not conscript any of the Israelites for forced labor. Instead, he assigned them to s...
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Solomon appointed 550 of them to supervise the people working on his various projects.
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Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh’s daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built fo...
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Three times each year Solomon presented burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had buil...
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King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, a port near Elath in the land of Edom, alon...
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Hiram sent experienced crews of sailors to sail the ships with Solomon’s men.
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They sailed to Ophir and brought back to Solomon some sixteen tons of gold.
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