1And it came to pass , when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Jehovah , and the king ’s house , and all Solomon ’s desire which he was pleased to do , 2that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time , as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon . 3And Jehovah 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 my heart shall be there perpetually . 4And as for thee , 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 mine ordinances ; 5then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever , according as I promised to David thy father, saying , There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel . 6But if ye shall turn away from following me , ye or your children , and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you , but shall go and serve other gods , and worship them ; 7then 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 peoples . 8And though this house is so high , yet shall every one that passeth by it be astonished , and shall hiss ; and they shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house ? 9and they shall answer, Because they forsook Jehovah their God , who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt , and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them , and served them : therefore hath Jehovah brought all this evil upon them .
Solomon's Achievements and Wealth
10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years , wherein Solomon had built the two houses , the house of Jehovah 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 . 12And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him ; and they pleased him not . 13And he said , What cities are these which thou hast given me , my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day . 14And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold .
The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon
15And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised , to build the house of Jehovah , and his own house , and Millo , and the wall of Jerusalem , and Hazor , and Megiddo , and Gezer . 16Pharaoh 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 portion unto his daughter , Solomon ’s wife. 17And Solomon built Gezer , and Beth-horon the nether , 18and Baalath , and Tamar in the wilderness , in the land, 19and all the store-cities that Solomon had , and the cities for his chariots , and 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 . 20As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites , the Perizzites , the Hivites , and the Jebusites , who were not of the children of Israel ; 21their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy , of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants unto this day . 22But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war , and his servants , and his princes , and his captains , and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen . 23These were the chief officers that were over Solomon ’s work , five hundred and fifty , who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work . 24But 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 . 25And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto Jehovah , burning incense therewith , upon the altar that was before Jehovah . So he finished the house . 26And 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. 27And Hiram sent in the navy his servants , shipmen that had knowledge of the sea , with the servants of Solomon . 28And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold , four hundred and twenty talents , and brought it to king Solomon .