Christian Standard Bible

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1When Solomon finished building the temple of the LORD, the royal palace, and all that Solomon desired to do,

1As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all that Solomon desired to build,

2the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

2the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

3The LORD said to him: I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

3And the LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

4As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep my statutes and ordinances,

4And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,

5I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.

5then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

6If you or your sons turn away from following me and do not keep my commands--my statutes that I have set before you--and if you go and serve other gods and bow in worship to them,

6But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,

7I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for my name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

8Though this temple is now exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff. They will say: Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?

8And this house will become a heap of ruins. Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’

9Then they will say: Because they abandoned the LORD their God who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt. They held on to other gods and bowed in worship to them and served them. Because of this, the LORD brought all this ruin on them.

9Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this disaster on them.’”

10At the end of twenty years during which Solomon had built the two houses, the LORD's temple and the royal palace--

10At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king’s house,

11King Hiram of Tyre having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every wish--King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

11and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

12So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.

12But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him.

13So he said, "What are these towns you've given me, my brother?" So he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are still called today.

13Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of Cabul to this day.

14Now Hiram had sent the king nine thousand pounds of gold.

14Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

15This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon had imposed to build the LORD's temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

15And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the LORD and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer

16Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He then burned it, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

16(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife;

17Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,

17so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and Lower Beth-horon

18Baalath, Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,

18and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

19all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, the chariot cities, the cavalry cities, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or anywhere else in the land of his dominion.

19and all the store cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

20As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites--

20All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel—

21their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely--Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is still this way today.

21their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction—these Solomon drafted to be slaves, and so they are to this day.

22But Solomon did not consign the Israelites to slavery; they were soldiers, his servants, his commanders, his captains, and commanders of his chariots and his cavalry.

22But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.

23These were the deputies who were over Solomon's work: 550 who supervised the people doing the work.

23These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work: 550 who had charge of the people who carried on the work.

24Pharaoh's daughter moved from the city of David to the house that Solomon had built for her; he then built the terraces.

24But Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.

25Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, and he burned incense with them in the LORD's presence. So he completed the temple.

25Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the LORD, making offerings with it before the LORD. So he finished the house.

26King Solomon put together a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.

26King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

27With the fleet, Hiram sent his servants, experienced seamen, along with Solomon's servants.

27And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.

28They went to Ophir and acquired gold there--sixteen tons--and delivered it to Solomon.

28And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.

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