1Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,stylus2 Chronicles 7:11, 2 Chronicles 8:6, 2 Chronicles 7:11, 2 Chronicles 8:6, 1 Kings 9:192the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.stylus1 Kings 3:5, 1 Kings 3:5, 2 Chronicles 7:12, 2 Chronicles 7:12, 1 Kings 11:93And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.stylus2 Kings 20:5, Psalms 10:17, 1 John 5:14, 1 Kings 8:29, 2 Kings 20:54And 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,stylus1 Kings 15:5, 1 Kings 15:5, 1 Kings 3:14, 1 Kings 3:14, 1 Kings 11:65then 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.’stylus1 Kings 2:4, 1 Kings 2:4, 1 Kings 6:12, 1 Kings 6:12, 2 Samuel 7:166But 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,stylus1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Samuel 7:14, 2 Samuel 7:16, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Samuel 7:147then 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.stylusPsalms 44:14, Jeremiah 24:9, Psalms 44:14, Jeremiah 24:9, Deuteronomy 4:268And 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?’stylusDeuteronomy 29:24, Deuteronomy 29:26, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Deuteronomy 29:249And 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.’”stylusJeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 5:19, Jeremiah 5:19, 2 Chronicles 7:2210Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,stylus1 Kings 6:37, 1 Kings 7:1, 1 Kings 6:37, 1 Kings 7:1, 2 Chronicles 8:111King 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.stylus2 Chronicles 8:2, 2 Chronicles 8:2, 1 Kings 5:6, 1 Kings 5:10, 2 Chronicles 2:812So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.stylusJudges 14:3, Numbers 22:34, Judges 14:3, Numbers 22:3413“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.stylusJoshua 19:27, Joshua 19:27, Amos 1:9, Amos 1:9, 1 Kings 5:114And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.stylus1 Kings 9:11, 1 Kings 9:11, 1 Kings 10:21, 1 Kings 10:10, 1 Kings 9:2815This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.stylus2 Samuel 5:9, 1 Kings 9:24, Joshua 17:11, 1 Kings 5:13, 2 Samuel 5:916Pharaoh 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.stylus1 Kings 3:1, 1 Kings 3:1, 1 Kings 9:24, 1 Kings 7:8, Joshua 16:1017So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,stylusJoshua 16:3, Joshua 16:3, Joshua 21:22, Joshua 21:22, Joshua 10:1018Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,stylusJoshua 19:44, Joshua 19:44, 2 Chronicles 8:4, 2 Chronicles 8:419as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.stylus1 Kings 9:1, 1 Kings 9:1, 1 Kings 10:26, 2 Chronicles 1:14, Exodus 1:1120As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—stylus2 Chronicles 8:7, 2 Chronicles 8:18, Genesis 15:19, Genesis 15:21, Exodus 23:2321their 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.stylusJoshua 17:12, Judges 1:21, Joshua 15:63, Joshua 17:12, Judges 1:2122But 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.stylusLeviticus 25:39, Leviticus 25:39, 1 Samuel 8:11, 1 Samuel 8:12, 1 Kings 4:123They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.stylus1 Kings 5:16, 1 Kings 5:16, 2 Chronicles 8:10, 2 Chronicles 8:10, 2 Chronicles 2:1824As 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.stylus2 Chronicles 32:5, 1 Kings 11:27, 1 Kings 7:8, 2 Samuel 5:9, 2 Chronicles 32:525Three 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.stylusExodus 23:14, Exodus 23:17, Deuteronomy 16:16, 2 Chronicles 8:16, 2 Chronicles 8:1226King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.stylus1 Kings 22:48, 1 Kings 22:48, Deuteronomy 2:8, Numbers 33:35, Deuteronomy 2:827And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.stylus1 Kings 10:11, 1 Kings 5:9, 1 Kings 5:6, 1 Kings 10:11, 1 Kings 5:928They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.stylus2 Chronicles 8:18, 1 Chronicles 29:4, 2 Chronicles 8:18, 1 Chronicles 29:4, 1 Kings 10:11