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The Third
Book of Kings 9
And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building
of the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and
all that he desired, and was pleased to do,
That the Lord appeared to him the second time, as he
had appeared to him in Gabaon.
And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and
thy supplication, which thou hast made before me: I
have sanctified this house, which thou hast built, to
put my name there for ever, and my eyes and my heart
shall be there always.
And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked,
in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness: and wilt
do all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my
ordinances and my judgments,
I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel
for ever, as I promised David thy father, saying: There
shall not fail a man of thy race upon the throne of
Israel.
But if you and your children revolting shall turn away
from following me, and will not keep my commandments,
and my ceremonies, which I have set before you, but
will go and worship strange gods, and adore them:
I will take away Israel from the face of the land which
I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified
to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel
shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people.
And this house shall be made an example of: every one
that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall
hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land,
and to this house:
And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord
their God, who brought their fathers out of the land
of Egypt, and followed strange gods, and adored them,
and worshipped them: therefore hath the Lord brought
upon them all this evil.
And when twenty years were ended after Solomon had built
the two houses, that is, the house of the Lord, and
the house of the king,
11(Hiram the king of Tyre furnishing Solomon with cedar
trees and fir trees, and gold according to all he had
need of.) then Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the
land of Galilee.
And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the towns which Solomon
had given him, and they pleased him not,
And he said: Are these the cities which thou hast given
me, brother? And he called them the land of Chabul,
unto this day.
And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundred and twenty
talents of gold.
This is the sum of the expenses, which king Solomon
offered to build the house of the Lord, and his own
house, and Mello, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Heser,
and Mageddo, and Gazer.
Pharao the king of Egypt came up and took Gazer, and
burnt it with fire: and slew the Chanaanite that dwelt
in the city, and gave it for a dowry to his daughter,
Solomon's wife.
So Solomon built: Gazer, and Beth-horon the nether,
And Baalath, and Palmira in the land of the wilderness.
And all the towns that belonged to himself, and were
not walled, he fortified, the cities also of the chariots,
and the cities of the horsemen, and whatsoever he had
a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in Libanus, and in
all the land of his dominion.
All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and
Hethites, and Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites,
that are not of the children of Israel:
Their children, that were left in the land, to wit,
such as the children of Israel had not been able to
destroy, Solomon made tributary unto this day.
But of the children of Israel Solomon made not any to
be bondmen, but they were men of war, and his servants,
and his princes, and captains, and overseers of the
chariots and horses.
And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers
set over all the works of Solomon, and they had people
under them, and had charge over the appointed works.
And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of
David to her house, which Solomon had built for her:
then did he build Mello.
Solomon also offered three times every year holocausts,
and victims of peace offerings upon the altar which
he had built to the Lord, and he burnt incense before
the Lord: and the temple was finished.
And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is
by Ailath on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of
Edom.
And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that
had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
And they came to Ophir, and they brought from thence
to king Solomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold. |
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