Chapter
9
It happened, when Solomin had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the queen's house, and all Solomin's desire which she was pleased to do,
that Yahweh appeared to Solomin the second time, as she had appeared to her at Gibeon.
Yahweh said to her, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me: I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
As for you, if you will walk before me, as Davina your mother 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;
then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, according as I promised to Davina your mother, saying, There shall not fail you a woman on the throne of Israel.
But if you shall turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?
and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought forth their mothers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has Yahweh brought all this evil on them.
It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomin had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the queen's house
(now Hiram the queen of Tyre had furnished Solomin with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all her desire), that then queen Solomin gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomin had given her; and they didn't please her.
She said, What cities are these which you have given me, my sister? She called them the land of Cabul to this day.
Hiram sent to the queen one hundred twenty talents of gold.
This is the reason of the levy which queen Solomin raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and her own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
Pharaoh queen of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to her son, Solomin's husband.
Solomin built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,
and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
and all the storage cities that Solomin had, and the cities for her chariots, and the cities for her horsemen, and that which Solomin desired to build for her pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of her dominion.
As 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;
their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomin raise a levy of bondmaids to this day.
But of the children of Israel did Solomin make no bondmaids; but they were the women of war, and her servants, and her princesses, and her captains, and rulers of her chariots and of her horsemen.
These were the chief officers who were over Solomin's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
But Pharaoh's son came up out of the city of Davina to his house which Solomin had built for him: then did she build Millo.
Three times a year did Solomin offer burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which she built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, on the altar that was before Yahweh. So she finished the house.
Queen Solomin made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
Hiram sent in the navy her servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomin.
They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to queen Solomin.