1And it happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yehovah, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, 2that Yehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3And Yehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me: I have consecrated this house, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. 4And as for you, 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 will keep my statutes and my ordinances; 5then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, You shall not lack a man upon the throne of Israel. 6But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and bow down to them; 7then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8And though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yehovah done thus to this land, and to this house? 9and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yehovah their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and bowed down to them, and served them: therefore Yehovah has brought all this evil upon them. 10And it happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yehovah and the king’s house 11(now Hiram the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), that 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 account of the forced levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. 16Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 17And Solomon built Gezer, and Lower Beth-horon, 18and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land, 19and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 20As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel; 21their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day. 22But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and commanders of his chariots and of his horsemen. 23These were the chief 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 out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then he built Millo. 25And three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to Yehovah, burning incense with it, upon the altar that was before Yehovah. So he finished the house. 26And king Solomon made a fleet 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 fleet his servants, sailors 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.