1 Kings 9:6-9

6 "¹But 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 ²then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and ³the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So ⁴Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

8 "And this house will become ⁵a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, '⁶Why * has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

9 "And they will say, '⁷Because * 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.' "

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

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "send"
• [b] Heb "high"