1 Kings 9:8-18

8 "And this house will become ¹a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, '²Why * has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

9 "And they will say, '³Because * they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore * the LORD has brought all this adversity on them.' "

Cities Given to Hiram

10 ⁴It came about ⁵at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house

11 (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire ), then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

12 So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please * him.

13 He said, "What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?" So they were called the land of ⁶Cabul to this day.

14 ⁷And Hiram sent to the king 120 * talents of gold.

15 Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon ⁸levied to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the ⁹Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, ¹⁰Hazor, ¹¹Megiddo, and ¹²Gezer.

16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the ¹³Canaanites who lived in the city, and had ¹⁴given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

17 So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower ¹⁵Beth-horon

18 and ¹⁶Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

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1 Kings 9:8-18 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

1. 2 Kings 25:9; 2 Chronicles 36:19
2. Deuteronomy 29:24-26; 2 Chronicles 7:21; Jer 22:8, 9, 28
3. Deuteronomy 29:25-28; Jeremiah 2:10-13
4. 2 Chronicles 8:1
5. 1 Kings 6:37, 38; 1 Kings 7:1; 1 Kings 9:1
6. Joshua 19:27
7. 1 Kings 9:11
8. 1 Kings 5:13
9. 2 Samuel 5:9; 1 Kings 9:24
10. Joshua 11:1; Joshua 19:36
11. Joshua 17:11
12. Judges 1:29
13. Joshua 16:10
14. 1 Kings 3:1; 1 Kings 7:8
15. Joshua 10:10; Joshua 16:3; Joshua 21:22; 2 Chronicles 8:5
16. Joshua 19:44

Footnotes 5

[a]. Heb "high"
[b]. Lit "were not right in his sight"
[c]. Lit "he called them"
[d]. I.e. as good as nothing
[e]. I.e. citadel