1 Kings 9:6-9

6 ¹But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,

7 ²then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, ³and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, ⁴and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

8 And this house will become a heap of ruins.^[a] Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ⁵'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

9 Then they will say, 'Because ⁶they abandoned the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this disaster on them.'"

1 Kings 9:6-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 9

This chapter relates a second vision Solomon had at Gibeon, in which he received an answer to his prayer in the preceding chapter, 1Ki 9:1-9 that passed between him and Hiram king of Tyre, 1Ki 9:10-14, the places that Solomon built or repaired, 1Ki 9:15-19, the Canaanitish people that became bondmen to him, and the officers he had among the children of Israel, 1Ki 9:20-23 the removal of Pharaoh's daughter to the house built for her, 1Ki 9:24. Solomon's attention to religious services, 1Ki 9:25 and the navy of ships he employed, which brought him in great riches, 1Ki 9:26-28.

Cross References

• 1. [2 Samuel 7:14; Psalms 89:30, 32]
• 2. Deuteronomy 4:26; 2 Kings 17:23; 2 Kings 25:21
• 3. Jeremiah 7:14
• 4. Deuteronomy 28:37; [Psalms 44:14]
• 5. Deuteronomy 29:24-26; Jeremiah 22:8, 9
• 6. 1 Kings 18:18

Footnotes

• [a]. Syriac, Old Latin; Hebrew will become high