# 1 Kings 9

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. When Solomon had finished building the house of Yahweh and the royal palace, and everything else Solomon desired to do,
2. Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3. Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before me. I have consecrated this house you have built by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
4. As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,
5. then I 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.’
6. But if you or your sons turn away from following me and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and bow down to them,
7. then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and I will cast out of my sight the house I have consecrated for my name. Israel will become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
8. And as for this house, now so exalted, everyone who passes by it will be appalled and will hiss. They will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’
9. Then people will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods and bowed down to them and served them. That is why Yahweh has brought all this disaster on them.’”
10. At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the royal palace—
11. Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired—then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12. But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities Solomon had given him, they did not please him.
13. He said, “What kind of cities are these you have given me, my brother?” So he called them the land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.
14. Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.
15. This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the house of Yahweh, his own palace, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16. Pharaoh king of Egypt had come up and captured Gezer. He burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17. So Solomon rebuilt Gezer. He also built Lower Beth-horon,
18. Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, within the land,
19. as well as all Solomon’s storage cities, the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and throughout all the land under his rule.
20. All the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites—
21. their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the Israelites had been unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted them as forced laborers, as they are to this day.
22. But Solomon did not make slaves of any of the Israelites. They were his soldiers, his officials, his commanders, his officers, and the commanders of his chariots and his horsemen.
23. These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work: 550 of them, who supervised the people who did the work.
24. As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her, he built the Millo.
25. Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for Yahweh, burning incense along with them before Yahweh. So he completed the house.
26. King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
27. Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who knew the sea, to serve with Solomon’s servants.
28. They went to Ophir and brought back 420 talents of gold from there, and they delivered it to King Solomon.

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[1 Kings 8](https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-kings/8.md)
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