1 Kings 9:9-19

9 "And they will say, '¹Because * 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 ²It came about ³at 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 ⁴Cabul to this day.

14 ⁵And Hiram sent to the king 120 * talents of gold.

15 Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon ⁶levied to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the ⁷Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, ⁸Hazor, ⁹Megiddo, and ¹⁰Gezer.

16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the ¹¹Canaanites who lived in the city, and had ¹²given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

17 So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower ¹³Beth-horon

18 and ¹⁴Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

19 and all the storage cities which Solomon had, even ¹⁵the cities for his chariots and the cities for ¹⁶his horsemen, and ¹⁷all that it pleased * Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.

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1 Kings 9:9-19 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 17

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

Footnotes 8

[a]. Lit "were not right in his sight"
[b]. Lit "he called them"
[c]. I.e. as good as nothing
[d]. I.e. citadel
[e]. Lit "the"
[f]. Lit "the"
[g]. Lit "the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem"
[h]. Lit "of"