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World English Bible

1 Kings 9 (WEBP)

[1] When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
[2] Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
[3] Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
[4] As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances,
[5] then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’
[6] But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,
[7] then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
[8] Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’
[9] and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’”
[10] At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, Yahweh’s house and the king’s house
[11] (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
[12] Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.
[13] He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.
[14] Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
[15] This is the reason of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted: to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
[16] Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
[17] Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,
[18] Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness,
[19] all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
[20] As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel—
[21] their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy—of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.
[22] But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
[23] These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
[24] But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.
[25] Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh three times per year, burning incense with them on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
[26] King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
[27] Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
[28] They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon.

1 Kings 9:13 “Cabul” sounds like Hebrew for “good-for-nothing”.
1 Kings 9:14 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 120 talents is about 3.6 metric tons
1 Kings 9:28 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 420 talents is about 12.6 metric tons

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

1 Kings 9 (KJVS)

[1] And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
[2] that the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
[3] And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
[4] And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
[5] then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
[6] But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
[7] then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
[8] and at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
[9] And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.
[10] And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king’s house,
[11] (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
[12] And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
[13] And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
[14] And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
[15] And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
[16] For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
[17] And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
[18] and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
[19] and all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
[20] And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
[21] their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
[22] But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
[23] These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
[24] But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
[25] And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the Lord, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the house.
[26] And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
[27] And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
[28] And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

1 Kings 9:12 Heb. were not right in his eyes
1 Kings 9:13 That is, displeasing Or, dirty
1 Kings 9:19 Heb. the desire of Solomon which he desired
1 Kings 9:25 Heb. upon it
1 Kings 9:26 Heb. lip

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

1 Kings 9 (BYZ)

[1] Καὶ () ἐγενήθη () ὡς () συνετέλεσεν () Σαλωμων οἰκοδομεῖν () τὸν () οἶκον () κυρίου () καὶ () τὸν () οἶκον () τοῦ () βασιλέως () καὶ () πᾶσαν () τὴν () πραγματείαν () Σαλωμων, ὅσα () ἠθέλησεν () ποιῆσαι, ()
[2] καὶ () ὤφθη () κύριος () τῷ () Σαλωμων δεύτερον, () καθὼς () ὤφθη () ἐν () Γαβαων,
[3] καὶ () εἶπεν () πρὸς () αὐτὸν () κύριος () Ἤκουσα () τῆς () φωνῆς () τῆς () προσευχῆς () σου () καὶ () τῆς () δεήσεώς () σου, () ἧς () ἐδεήθης () ἐνώπιον () ἐμοῦ· () πεποίηκά () σοι () κατὰ () πᾶσαν () τὴν () προσευχήν () σου, () ἡγίακα () τὸν () οἶκον () τοῦτον, () ὃν () ᾠκοδόμησας, () τοῦ () θέσθαι () τὸ () ὄνομά () μου () ἐκεῖ () εἰς () τὸν () αἰῶνα, () καὶ () ἔσονται () οἱ () ὀφθαλμοί () μου () ἐκεῖ () καὶ () ἡ () καρδία () μου () πάσας () τὰς () ἡμέρας. ()
[4] Καὶ () σὺ () ἐὰν () πορευθῇς () ἐνώπιον () ἐμοῦ, () καθὼς () ἐπορεύθη () Δαυιδ () ὁ () πατήρ () σου, () ἐν () ὁσιότητι () καρδίας () καὶ () ἐν () εὐθύτητι () καὶ () τοῦ () ποιεῖν () κατὰ () πάντα, () ἃ () ἐνετειλάμην () αὐτῷ, () καὶ () τὰ () προστάγματά μου () καὶ () τὰς () ἐντολάς () μου () φυλάξῃς, ()
[5] καὶ () ἀναστήσω () τὸν () θρόνον () τῆς () βασιλείας () σου () ἐπὶ () Ισραηλ () εἰς () τὸν () αἰῶνα, () καθὼς () ἐλάλησα () τῷ () Δαυιδ () πατρί () σου () λέγων () Οὐκ () ἐξαρθήσεταί () σοι () ἀνὴρ () ἡγούμενος () ἐν () Ισραηλ. ()
[6] Ἐὰν () δὲ () ἀποστραφέντες () ἀποστραφῆτε () ὑμεῖς () καὶ () τὰ () τέκνα () ὑμῶν () ἀπ’ () ἐμοῦ () καὶ () μὴ () φυλάξητε () τὰς () ἐντολάς () μου () καὶ () τὰ () προστάγματά μου, () ἃ () ἔδωκεν () Μωϋσῆς () ἐνώπιον () ὑμῶν, () καὶ () πορευθῆτε () καὶ () δουλεύσητε () θεοῖς () ἑτέροις () καὶ () προσκυνήσητε () αὐτοῖς, ()
[7] καὶ () ἐξαρῶ () τὸν () Ισραηλ () ἀπὸ () τῆς () γῆς, () ἧς () ἔδωκα () αὐτοῖς, () καὶ () τὸν () οἶκον () τοῦτον, () ὃν () ἡγίασα () τῷ () ὀνόματί () μου, () ἀπορρίψω () ἐκ () προσώπου () μου, () καὶ () ἔσται () Ισραηλ () εἰς () ἀφανισμὸν () καὶ () εἰς () λάλημα εἰς () πάντας () τοὺς () λαούς. ()
[8] Καὶ () ὁ () οἶκος () οὗτος () ὁ () ὑψηλός, () πᾶς () ὁ () διαπορευόμενος () δι’ () αὐτοῦ () ἐκστήσεται () καὶ () συριεῖ καὶ () ἐροῦσιν () Ἕνεκα () τίνος () ἐποίησεν () κύριος () οὕτως () τῇ () γῇ () ταύτῃ () καὶ () τῷ () οἴκῳ () τούτῳ; ()
[9] Καὶ () ἐροῦσιν () Ἀνθ’ () ὧν () ἐγκατέλιπον () κύριον () θεὸν () αὐτῶν, () ὃς () ἐξήγαγεν () τοὺς () πατέρας () αὐτῶν () ἐξ () Αἰγύπτου () ἐξ () οἴκου () δουλείας, () καὶ () ἀντελάβοντο () θεῶν () ἀλλοτρίων () καὶ () προσεκύνησαν () αὐτοῖς () καὶ () ἐδούλευσαν () αὐτοῖς, () διὰ () τοῦτο () ἐπήγαγεν () κύριος () ἐπ’ () αὐτοὺς () τὴν () κακίαν () ταύτην. ()
[10] Εἴκοσι () ἔτη, () ἐν () οἷς () ᾠκοδόμησεν () Σαλωμων τοὺς () δύο () οἴκους, () τὸν () οἶκον () κυρίου () καὶ () τὸν () οἶκον () τοῦ () βασιλέως, ()
[11] Χιραμ βασιλεὺς () Τύρου () ἀντελάβετο () τοῦ () Σαλωμων ἐν () ξύλοις () κεδρίνοις καὶ () ἐν () ξύλοις () πευκίνοις καὶ () ἐν () χρυσίῳ () καὶ () ἐν () παντὶ () θελήματι () αὐτοῦ. () Τότε () ἔδωκεν () ὁ () βασιλεὺς () τῷ () Χιραμ εἴκοσι () πόλεις () ἐν () τῇ () γῇ () τῇ () Γαλιλαίᾳ. ()
[12] Καὶ () ἐξῆλθεν () Χιραμ ἐκ () Τύρου () καὶ () ἐπορεύθη () εἰς () τὴν () Γαλιλαίαν () τοῦ () ἰδεῖν () τὰς () πόλεις, () ἃς () ἔδωκεν () αὐτῷ () Σαλωμων, καὶ () οὐκ () ἤρεσαν () αὐτῷ· ()
[13] καὶ () εἶπεν () Τί () αἱ () πόλεις () αὗται, () ἃς () ἔδωκάς () μοι, () ἀδελφέ; () Καὶ () ἐκάλεσεν () αὐτάς () Ὅριον () ἕως () τῆς () ἡμέρας () ταύτης. ()
[14] Καὶ () ἤνεγκεν () Χιραμ τῷ () Σαλωμων ἑκατὸν () καὶ () εἴκοσι () τάλαντα () χρυσίου ()
[15] Αὕτη () ἦν () ἡ () πραγματεία () τῆς () προνομῆς, ἧς () ἀνήνεγκεν () ὁ () βασιλεὺς () Σαλωμων οἰκοδομῆσαι () τὸν () οἶκον () κυρίου () καὶ () τὸν () οἶκον () τοῦ () βασιλέως () καὶ () τὸ () τεῖχος () Ιερουσαλημ () καὶ () τὴν () ἄκραν τοῦ () περιφράξαι τὸν () φραγμὸν () τῆς () πόλεως () Δαυιδ () καὶ () τὴν () Ασσουρ καὶ () τὴν () Μαγδαν καὶ () τὴν () Γαζερ καὶ () τὴν () Βαιθωρων τὴν () ἀνωτέρω () καὶ () τὴν () Ιεθερμαθ καὶ () πάσας () τὰς () πόλεις () τῶν () ἁρμάτων () καὶ () πάσας () τὰς () πόλεις () τῶν () ἱππέων () καὶ () τὴν () πραγματείαν () Σαλωμων, ἣν () ἐπραγματεύσατο () οἰκοδομῆσαι () ἐν () Ιερουσαλημ () καὶ () ἐν () πάσῃ () τῇ () γῇ () τοῦ () μὴ () κατάρξαι αὐτοῦ. () …
[20] πάντα () τὸν () λαὸν () τὸν () ὑπολελειμμένον () ἀπὸ () τοῦ () Χετταίου καὶ () τοῦ () Αμορραίου καὶ () τοῦ () Φερεζαίου καὶ () τοῦ () Χαναναίου () καὶ () τοῦ () Ευαίου καὶ () τοῦ () Ιεβουσαίου καὶ () τοῦ () Γεργεσαίου τῶν () μὴ () ἐκ () τῶν () υἱῶν () Ισραηλ () ὄντων, () τὰ () τέκνα () αὐτῶν () τὰ () ὑπολελειμμένα () μετ’ () αὐτοὺς () ἐν () τῇ () γῇ, () οὓς () οὐκ () ἐδύναντο () οἱ () υἱοὶ () Ισραηλ () ἐξολεθρεῦσαι () αὐτούς, () καὶ () ἀνήγαγεν () αὐτοὺς () Σαλωμων εἰς () φόρον () ἕως () τῆς () ἡμέρας () ταύτης. () …
[22] καὶ () ἐκ () τῶν () υἱῶν () Ισραηλ () οὐκ () ἔδωκε () Σαλωμων εἰς () πρᾶγμα, () ὅτι () αὐτοὶ () ἦσαν () ἄνδρες () οἱ () πολεμισταὶ καὶ () παῖδες () αὐτοῦ () καὶ () ἄρχοντες () τῶν () ἁρμάτων () αὐτοῦ () καὶ () ἱππεῖς () αὐτοῦ. () …
[24] Τότε () ἀνήγαγεν () Σαλωμων τὴν () θυγατέρα () Φαραω () ἐκ () πόλεως () Δαυιδ () εἰς () οἶκον () αὐτοῦ, () ὃν () ᾠκοδόμησεν () ἑαυτῷ () ἐν () ταῖς () ἡμέραις () ἐκείναις. () …
[26] καὶ () ναῦν () ὑπὲρ () οὗ () ἐποίησεν () ὁ () βασιλεὺς () Σαλωμων ἐν () Γασιωνγαβερ τὴν () οὖσαν () ἐχομένην () Αιλαθ ἐπὶ () τοῦ () χείλους () τῆς () ἐσχάτης () θαλάσσης () ἐν () γῇ () Εδωμ.
[27] Καὶ () ἀπέστειλεν () Χιραμ ἐν () τῇ () νηὶ () τῶν () παίδων () αὐτοῦ () ἄνδρας () ναυτικοὺς ἐλαύνειν () εἰδότας () θάλασσαν () μετὰ () τῶν () παίδων () Σαλωμων.
[28] Καὶ () ἦλθον () εἰς () Σωφηρα καὶ () ἔλαβον () ἐκεῖθεν () χρυσίου () ἑκατὸν () καὶ () εἴκοσι () τάλαντα () καὶ () ἤνεγκαν () τῷ () βασιλεῖ () Σαλωμων.

1 Kings 9:15 Originally verse 10:22a.
1 Kings 9:20 Originally verse 10:22b.
1 Kings 9:22 Originally verse 10:22c.
1 Kings 9:24 Originally verse 9:9a.

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.