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| 1When Solomon finished building the temple of the LORD, the royal palace, and all that Solomon desired to do, | 1When Solomon had finished building the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do, |
| 2the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time just as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. | 2the LORD appeared to him 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. | 3The LORD said to him: "I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there. |
| 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, | 4"As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws, |
| 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. | 5I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail to have a successor 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 worship them, | 6"But if you or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you and go off to 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 I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. |
| 8Though this temple is now exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will mock. They will say: Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple? | 8This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?' |
| 9Then they will say: Because they abandoned the LORD their God who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt. They clung to other gods and worshiped and served them. Because of this, the LORD brought all this ruin on them. | 9People will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them--that is why the LORD brought all this disaster on them.'" |
| 10At the end of 20 years during which Solomon had built the two houses, the LORD's temple and the royal palace-- | 10At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings--the temple of the LORD and the royal palace-- |
| 11Hiram king of Tyre having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every wish--King Solomon gave Hiram 20 towns in the land of Galilee. | 11King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted. |
| 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 went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. |
| 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. | 13"What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?" he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul, a name they have to this day. |
| 14Now Hiram had sent the king 9,000 pounds of gold. | 14Now Hiram 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. | 15Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD's temple, his own palace, the terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer. |
| 16Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He then burned it down, 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 attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon's wife. |
| 17Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon, | 17And Solomon rebuilt Gezer.) He built up Lower Beth Horon, |
| 18Baalath, Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah, | 18Baalath, and Tadmor in the desert, within his land, |
| 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. | 19as well as all his store cities and the towns for his chariots and for his horses --whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled. |
| 20As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites-- | 20There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites). |
| 21their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to completely destroy--Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is this way until today. | 21Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land--whom the Israelites could not exterminate --to serve as slave labor, as it is 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 Solomon did not make slaves of any of the Israelites; they were his fighting men, his government officials, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and charioteers. |
| 23These were the deputies who were over Solomon's work: 550 who ruled over the people doing the work. | 23They were also the chief officials in charge of Solomon's projects--550 officials supervising those who did 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. | 24After Pharaoh's daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces. |
| 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 sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense before the LORD along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations. |
| 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 also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea. |
| 27With the fleet, Hiram sent his servants, experienced seamen, along with Solomon's servants. | 27And Hiram sent his men--sailors who knew the sea--to serve in the fleet with Solomon's men. |
| 28They went to Ophir and acquired gold there--16 tons--and delivered it to Solomon. | 28They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon. |
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