1 Kings 9:1-9

God's Promise and Warning

1 ¹Now it came about when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, and ²the king's house, and ³all that Solomon desired to do,

2 that ⁴the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

3 The LORD said to him, "⁵I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built ⁶by putting My name there forever *, and ⁷My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually *.

4 "As for you, ⁸if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances,

5 then ⁹I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'

6 "¹⁰But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

7 ¹¹then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and ¹²the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So ¹³Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

8 "And this house will become ¹⁴a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, '¹⁵Why * has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

9 "And they will say, '¹⁶Because * 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.' "

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1 Kings 9:1-9 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

1. 2 Chronicles 7:11
2. 1 Kings 7:1, 2
3. 2 Chronicles 8:6
4. 1 Kings 3:5; 1 Kings 11:9; 2 Chronicles 1:7
5. 2 Kings 20:5; Psalms 10:17; Psalms 34:17
6. 1 Kings 8:29
7. Deuteronomy 11:12; 2 Chronicles 6:40
8. 1 Kings 3:6, 14; 1 Kings 11:4, 6, 8; 2 Kings 20:3; Psalms 128:1
9. 2 Samuel 7:12, 16; 1 Kings 2:4; 1 Kings 6:12; 1 Chronicles 22:10
10. 2 Samuel 7:14-16; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Psalms 89:30f
11. Leviticus 18:24-29; Deuteronomy 4:26; 2 Kings 17:23
12. Jeremiah 7:4-14
13. Deuteronomy 28:37; Psalms 44:14; Jeremiah 24:9
14. 2 Kings 25:9; 2 Chronicles 36:19
15. Deuteronomy 29:24-26; 2 Chronicles 7:21; Jer 22:8, 9, 28
16. Deuteronomy 29:25-28; Jeremiah 2:10-13

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do"
[b]. Lit "spoke"
[c]. Lit "There shall not be cut off to you a man"
[d]. Lit "send"
[e]. Heb "high"