1 GLT And it happened as soon as Solomon finished building the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, and every desire of Solomon that he delighted to do, BSB BSB: Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
2 GLT that Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. BSB BSB: the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3 GLT And Yahweh said to him,“I have heard your prayer and your plea for favor that you plead for favor before my face. I have set apart this house that you built, by setting my name there until eternity. And my eyes and my heart will be there all the days. BSB BSB: And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
4 GLT And as for you, if you will walk before my face just as David your father walked with completeness of heart and with uprightness, by doing according to all that I have commanded you, if you keep my statutes and my judgments, BSB BSB: And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
5 GLT then I will raise up the throne of your kingdom over Israel for eternity, just as I spoke to David your father, saying,‘A man for you will not be cut off from on the throne of Israel.’ BSB BSB: then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
6 GLT If you ever turn back, you or your sons, from after me and you do not keep my commandments, my statutes that I have given before your face, and you go and serve other gods and you bow down to them, BSB BSB: But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
7 GLT then I will cut off Israel from on the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have set apart for my name, I will send away from on my face, and Israel will be for a proverb and for a taunt among all the peoples. BSB BSB: then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
8 GLT And this house will be elevated, every one who passes by near it will be appalled and will hiss. And they will say,‘On what account did Yahweh do thus to this land and to this house?’ BSB BSB: And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
9 GLT And they will say,‘Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out from the land of Egypt, and they held on to other gods and bowed down to them and served them. Therefore Yahweh brought on them all this evil.’” BSB BSB: And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
10 GLT And it happened from the end of 20 years that Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the house of the king. BSB BSB: Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
11 GLT Hiram, the king of Tyre, had lifted Solomon with trees of cedar and with trees of cypress and with gold, according to all his delight. Then the king Solomon gave to Hiram 20 cities in the land of the Galilee. BSB BSB: King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.
12 GLT And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given to him, but they were not right in his eyes. BSB BSB: So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
13 GLT And he said,“What are these cities that you have given to me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Kabul until this day. BSB BSB: “What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram, and he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.
14 GLT And Hiram sent to the king 120 kikkars of gold. BSB BSB: And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.
16 GLT Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had gone up and seized Gezer and he burned it with fire and he slew the Canaanite, the one who dwelled in the city. And he gave it as sending gifts to his daughter, the wife of Solomon. BSB BSB: Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17 GLT And Solomon built Gezer and lower Beth Horon BSB BSB: So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,
18 GLT and Baalath and Tadmor in the wilderness in the land BSB BSB: Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,
20 GLT All the people, the ones who were left over from the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, they who were not of the sons of Israel, BSB BSB: As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—
21 GLT their sons who were left over after them in the land, them whom the sons of Israel were not able to utterly destroy, Solomon brought them up for the forced labor of serving until this day. BSB BSB: their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
22 GLT But from the sons of Israel Solomon did not give a servant, for they were the men of warfare and his servants and his commanders and his third men and the commanders of his chariotry and his horsemen. BSB BSB: But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slavery, because they were his men of war, his servants, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.
23 GLT These were the commanders of the stationed ones who were over the work for Solomon, 550, the ones having dominion over the people, the ones doing the work. BSB BSB: They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.
24 GLT As soon as the daughter of Pharoah went up from the city of David to her house that he had built for her, then he built the Millo. BSB BSB: As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
25 GLT And Solomon offered up three times in the year burnt up offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built for Yahweh, and he burned incense with it, which was before the face of Yahweh. And he completed the house. BSB BSB: Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple.
26 GLT And the king Solomon made a fleet in Ezion Geber, which is near Elath on the lip of the sea of reeds in the land of Edom. BSB BSB: King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
27 GLT And Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, men of ships who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon. BSB BSB: And Hiram sent his servants, sailors who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
28 GLT And they came to Ophir and took from there gold, 420 kikkars. And they brought it to the king Solomon. BSB BSB: They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
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