1 Kings 09 The Lord Appears to Solomon a Second Time

 1 Kings 09

The Lord Appears to Solomon a Second Time

1- Now it came to pass, when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and had done all that Solomon desired, that he might do,

2- The Lord appeared to Solomon again, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

3- And the Lord said to him, I have heard your prayer, and your supplication which you have made before me: I have hallowed the house which you have built, to put my name there forever: and my eyes and my heart shall be there always.

4- And if you walk before me, as David your father walked, with all your heart and sincerity, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, 5- Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I spoke concerning David your father, saying, 'You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel. ' 6- But if you or your sons turn away from me at all, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 7- Then I will destroy Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will cast out this house, which I have consecrated for my name, from my presence; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8- And because of this house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss and say, "Why has the Lord done this to this land and to this house?" 9- And they will say, "Because they have forsaken the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have bowed down to them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought all this evil on them." 10- And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, that Solomon had built two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king. 11- {For this reason Hiram king of Tyre had brought Solomon cedar and fir trees and gold, according to all his desire.} Then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities out of the land of Galilee. 12- And Hiram went out of Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but they did not please him. 13- And he said, What cities are these that thou hast given me, my brother? And they called them the Land of Cabuli, unto this day.

14- And Hiram sent unto the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold.