CLV(i)
1 And it comes to pass, at Solomon's finishing to build the house of Yahweh, and the house of the king, and all the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do,
2 that Yahweh appears unto Solomon a second time, as He appeared unto him in Gibeon,
3 and Yahweh said unto him, `I have heard your prayer and your supplication with which you have made supplication before Me; I have hallowed this house that you have built to put My name there--unto the eon, and Mine eyes and My heart have been there all the days.
4 `And you--if you do walk before Me as David your father walked, in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you--My statutes and My judgments you do keep-.
5 then I have established the throne of your kingdom over Israel--to the eon, as I spoke unto David your father, saying, There is not cut off to you a man from [being] on the throne of Israel.
6 `If you at all turn back--you and your sons--from after Me, and keep not My commands--My statutes, that I have set before you, and you have gone and served other elohims, and bowed yourselves to them,
7 then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence, and Israel has been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples;"
8 as to this house, [that] is high, every one passing by it is astonished, and has hissed, and they have said, Wherefore has Yahweh done thus to this land and to this house?
9 and they have said, Because that they have forsaken Yahweh their Elohim, who brought out their fathers from the land of Egypt, and they lay hold on other elohims, and bow themselves to them, and serve them; therefore has Yahweh brought in upon them all this evil..
10 And it comes to pass, at the end of twenty years, that Solomon has built the two houses, the house of Yahweh, and the house of the king.
11 Hiram king of Tyre has assisted Solomon with cedar-trees, and with fir-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire; then does king Solomon give to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12 And Hiram comes out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon has given to him, and they have not been right in his eyes,
13 and he said, `What [are] these cities that you have given to me, my brother?' and one calls them the land of Cabul unto this day.
14 And Hiram sends to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
15 And this [is] the matter of the tribute that king Solomon has lifted up, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer,
16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt has gone up and does capture Gezer, and does burn it with fire, and the Canaanite who is dwelling in the city he has slain, and gives it [with] presents to his daughter, wife of Solomon..
17 And Solomon builds Gezer, and Beth-Horon the lower,
18 and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land;"
19 and all the cities of stores that king Solomon has, and the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20 The whole of the people that is left of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who [are] not of the sons of Israel-.
21 their sons who are left behind them in the land, whom the sons of Israel have not been able to devote--he has even lifted up [on] them a tribute of service unto this day.
22 And out of the sons of Israel Solomon has not appointed a servant, for they [are] the men of war, and his servants, and his heads, and his captains, and the heads of his chariots, and his horsemen.
23 These [are] the heads of the officers who [are] over the work of Solomon, fifty and five hundred, those ruling among the people who are laboring in the work.
24 Only, the daughter of Pharaoh went up out of the city of David unto her house that [Solomon] built for her; then he built Millo.
25 And Solomon caused to ascend, three times in a year, burnt-offerings and peace-offerings on the altar that he built to Yahweh, and he perfumed it with that which [is] before Yahweh, and finished the house.
26 And a navy has king Solomon made in Ezion-Geber, that is beside Eloth, on the edge of the Sea of Suph, in the land of Edom.
27 And Hiram sends in the navy his servants, shipmen knowing the sea, with servants of Solomon,
28 and they come in to Ophir and take thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and bring [it] in unto king Solomon.