1 Kings 9 – NIV & CCBT

New International Version

1 Kings 9:1-28

The Lord Appears to Solomon

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 him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 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.

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 David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

6“But if you9:6 The Hebrew is plural. or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you9:6 The Hebrew is plural. and go off to serve other gods and worship them, 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. 8This temple will become a heap of rubble. All9:8 See some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew And though this temple is now imposing, 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?’ 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.’ ”

Solomon’s Other Activities

10At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings—the temple of the Lord and the royal palace— 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. 12But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. 13“What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?” he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul,9:13 Kabul sounds like the Hebrew for good-for-nothing. a name they have to this day. 14Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents9:14 That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons of gold.

15Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,9:15 Or the Millo; also in verse 24 the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer. 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. 17And Solomon rebuilt Gezer.) He built up Lower Beth Horon, 18Baalath, and Tadmor9:18 The Hebrew may also be read Tamar. in the desert, within his land, 19as well as all his store cities and the towns for his chariots and for his horses9:19 Or charioteers—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

20There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites). 21Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate9:21 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day. 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. 23They were also the chief officials in charge of Solomon’s projects—550 officials supervising those who did the work.

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 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 also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.9:26 Or the Sea of Reeds 27And Hiram sent his men—sailors who knew the sea—to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s men. 28They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talents9:28 That is, about 16 tons or about 14 metric tons of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)

列王紀上 9:1-28

耶和華再次向所羅門顯現

1所羅門建完耶和華的殿、自己的王宮和所有要建的建築後, 2耶和華像在基遍一樣再次向他顯現, 3對他說:「我聽了你的禱告和祈求。我已使你建的殿成為聖潔之地,讓我的名永在其中,我會一直眷顧這殿。 4如果你像你父親大衛一樣存誠實正直的心事奉我,遵行我的一切吩咐,謹守我的律例和典章, 5我必使你的王位在以色列永遠穩固,正如我曾向你父親大衛應許要使他的王朝永不中斷。

6「然而,如果你們及你們的子孫離棄我,不守我的誡命和律例,去供奉、祭拜別的神明, 7我必把以色列人從我賜給他們的土地上剷除,並離棄我為自己的名而使之聖潔的這殿,使以色列人在萬民中成為笑柄,被人嘲諷。 8這殿雖然宏偉,但將來經過的人必驚訝,譏笑說,『耶和華為什麼這樣對待這地方和這殿呢?』 9人們會回答,『因為他們背棄曾領他們祖先離開埃及的耶和華——他們的上帝,去追隨、祭拜、供奉別的神明,所以耶和華把這一切災禍降在他們身上。』」

所羅門的事蹟

10所羅門用二十年的時間興建了耶和華的殿和自己的王宮。 11泰爾希蘭供應了所羅門所需要的一切香柏木、松木和黃金,所羅門王就把加利利一帶的二十座城送給他。 12希蘭泰爾去視察這些城,然後滿心不悅地對所羅門說: 13「兄弟啊,你送給我的是什麼城邑呀?」因此,他稱這個地區為迦步勒9·13 迦步勒」希伯來文的意思為「沒有價值」。,沿用至今。 14希蘭供應了所羅門王約四噸金子。

15所羅門徵召勞役興建耶和華的殿、自己的王宮、米羅堡和耶路撒冷的城牆以及夏瑣米吉多基色16從前埃及王法老攻陷基色,火燒全城,殺了城內的迦南人,把基色賜予女兒,即所羅門之妻作嫁妝。 17所羅門現在重建基色、下伯·和崙18巴拉和境內沙漠地區的達莫19他還建造了所有的儲貨城、屯車城、養馬城和計劃在耶路撒冷黎巴嫩及全國興建的城邑。

20當時國中有亞摩利人、人、比利洗人、希未人和耶布斯人的後裔, 21以色列人沒能滅絕這些外族人,所羅門讓他們服勞役,至今如此。 22所羅門王沒有讓以色列人服勞役,而是讓他們做戰士、官長、統帥、將領、戰車長和騎兵長。 23他還任命五百五十名監工負責監管工人。

24法老的女兒從大衛城遷到為她建造的宮殿以後,所羅門動工興建米羅堡。 25耶和華的殿落成以後,所羅門每年三次在他為耶和華築的壇上獻燔祭、平安祭並在耶和華面前燒香。

26所羅門王在以東境內的紅海邊、靠近以祿以旬·迦別製造船隻。 27希蘭派有經驗的水手與所羅門的水手一起出海, 28俄斐所羅門王運回了十四噸黃金。