1 After Solomon finished building the temple of the LORD, the royal palace, and everything else that he had planned,
2 the LORD appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him in Gibeon.
3 The LORD said to him: "I have heard the prayer of petition which you offered in my presence. I have consecrated this temple which you have built; I confer my name upon it forever, and my eyes and my heart shall be there always.
4 As for you, if you live in my presence as your father David lived, sincerely and uprightly, doing just as I have commanded you, keeping my statutes and decrees,
5 I will establish your throne of sovereignty over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, 'You shall always have someone from your line on the throne of Israel.'
6 But if you and your descendants ever withdraw from me, fail to keep the commandments and statutes which I set before you, and proceed to venerate and worship strange gods,
7 I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them and repudiate the temple I have consecrated to my honor. Israel shall become a proverb and a byword among all nations,
8 and this temple shall become a heap of ruins. Every passerby shall catch his breath in amazement, and ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to the land and to this temple?'
9 Men will answer: 'They forsook the LORD, their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt; they adopted strange gods which they worshiped and served. That is why the LORD has brought down upon them all this evil.'"
10 After the twenty years during which Solomon built the two houses, the temple of the LORD and the palace of the king--
11 Hiram, king of Tyre, supplying Solomon with all the cedar wood, fir wood, and gold he wished--King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12 Hiram left Tyre to see the cities Solomon had given him, but was not satisfied with them.
13 So he said, "What are these cities you have given me, my brother?" And he called them the land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.
14 Hiram, however, had sent king Solomon one hundred and twenty talents of gold.
15 This is an account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied in order to build the temple of the LORD, his palace, Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, Gezer
16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had come up and taken Gezer and, after destroying it by fire and slaying all the Canaanites living in the city, had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife;
17 Solomon then rebuilt Gezer), Lower Beth-horon,
18 Baalath, Tamar in the desert of Judah,
19 all his cities for supplies, cities for chariots and for horses, and whatever else Solomon decided should be built in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in the entire land under his dominion.
20 All the non-Israelite people who remained in the land, descendants of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites
21 whose doom the Israelites had been unable to accomplish, Solomon conscripted as forced laborers, as they are to this day.
22 But Solomon enslaved none of the Israelites, for they were his fighting force, his ministers, commanders, adjutants, chariot officers, and charioteers.
23 The supervisors of Solomon's works who policed the people engaged in the work numbered five hundred and fifty.
24 As soon as Pharaoh's daughter went up from the City of David to her palace, which he had built for her, Solomon built Millo.
25 Three times a year Solomon used to offer holocausts and peace offerings on the altar which he had built to the LORD, and to burn incense before the LORD; and he kept the temple in repair.
26 King Solomon also built a fleet at Ezion-geber, which is near Elath on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.
27 In this fleet Hiram placed his own expert seamen with the servants of Solomon.
28 They went to Ophir, and brought back four hundred and twenty talents of gold to King Solomon.
Versículos relacionados com 1 Kings, 9:
1 Kings 9 tells the Lord's answer to Solomon after the completion of the construction of the temple and the palace. The chapter deals mainly to the covenant between God and Solomon, as well as the fulfillment of the promises God made to David. In addition, it also mentions the business relationship between Solomon and Hiram, king of Tire.
2 Chronicles 7:14: "If my people, which is called by my name, humble themselves, pray and pursue my face and move away from their evil ways, from heaven I will hear him, forgive his sin and heal his earth . " This verse speaks of the covenant between God and Solomon, and points out that if the people humble themselves, pray and seek the face of God, he will hear and forgive his sins.
Psalm 72:10: "May the kings of Tarshis and the coastal regions bring them tribute; may the kings of Sabbath and Sebá offer him gifts." This verse relates to the business relationship between Solomon and Hiram, and points out that other kings should offer taxes and gifts to Solomon as a form of respect and admiration.
Isaiah 2:4: "He will judge among the nations and resolve strife of many peoples. From their swords shall plows, and their spears, sickles. One nation will no longer raise the sword against another, they will no longer dedicate themselves to war." This verse relates to the covenant between God and Solomon, which guaranteed peace and prosperity to Israel during his reign.
1 Kings 3:11: "And God said unto him," Since he asked me and not a long life or wealth, nor did he ask for the death of his enemies, but discernment to rule with justice, I will do what he asked, giving him a wise heart and able to discern between good and evil. "This verse highlights the wisdom that Solomon received from God to rule with righteousness.
2 Samuel 7:12-13: "When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will establish your descendant to succeed you, who will come out of your own body, and will sign your kingdom. He will build a temple in honor By my name, and I will establish the throne of your kingdom forever. " This verse highlights the fulfillment of God's promises to David, which were fulfilled during Solomon's reign.
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