1And it happened as Solomon finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, 2the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your cry which you have made before Me. I have made this house which you have built holy, to put My name there forever. And My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually. 4And if you will walk before Me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you; [and] if you will keep My statutes and My judgments, 5then I will establish the throne of your kingdom on Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not be cut off to you a man on the throne of Israel. 6If you shall at all turn from following Me, you or your sons, and will not keep My commandments [and] My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 7then I will cut off Israel from the face of the land which I have given them. And this house which I have made holy for My name I will cast out of My sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people. 8As to this house [which] is exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be amazed and shall hiss. And they shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house? 9And they shall answer, Because they left the LORD their God who brought out their fathers from the land of Egypt, and have taken hold on other gods and have worshiped them and served them. On account of this the LORD has brought on them all this evil. 10And it happened at the end of twenty years, Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house. 11Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desires. Then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him. And they did not please him. 13And he said, What cities [are] these which you have given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this day. 14And Hiram sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold. 15And this [is] the reason of the labor force which King Solomon raised to build the house of the LORD and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. 16For Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had gone up and had taken Gezer and had burned it with fire, and had slain the Canaanites who lived in the city. And he had given it [for] a present to his daughter, Solomon's wife. 17And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the lower, 18and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land. 19And he built all the store-cities which Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 20And all the people [who were] left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who [were] not of the sons of Israel, 21their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel also were not able to destroy completely, on those Solomon laid a tribute of bond-service to this day. 22But Solomon did not make any slave out of the sons of Israel. But they [were] men of war, and his servants, and his rulers, and his commanders, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. 23These [were] the chief of the officers who [were] over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty who ruled over the people who labored in the work. 24But Pharaoh's daughter came up from the city of David to her house which had been built for her. And he built Millo. 25And three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he had built to the LORD, and he burned incense on the altar which [was] before the LORD. And he finished the house. 26And King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which [is] beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 28And they came to Ophir, and brought gold from there, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.