1 Kings 9

1 and to be like/as to end: finish Solomon to/for to build [obj] house: temple LORD and [obj] house: home [the] king and [obj] all desire Solomon which to delight in to/for to make

After Solomon’s [workers] had finished building the temple and his palace and everything else that Solomon wanted them to build,

2 and to see: see LORD to(wards) Solomon second like/as as which to see: see to(wards) him in/on/with Gibeon

Yahweh appeared to him [in a dream] a second time, like he had appeared to him at [the city of] Gibeon.

3 and to say LORD to(wards) him to hear: hear [obj] prayer your and [obj] supplication your which be gracious to/for face: before my to consecrate: consecate [obj] [the] house: home [the] this which to build to/for to set: put name my there till forever: enduring and to be eye my and heart my there all [the] day

Yahweh said to him, “I heard what you prayed and what you pleaded for me to do. I have set apart/dedicated this temple which your [workers] have built to be the place where people will worship me forever. I will always watch over it and protect it.

4 and you(m. s.) if to go: walk to/for face: before my like/as as which to go: walk David father your in/on/with integrity heart and in/on/with uprightness to/for to make: do like/as all which to command you statute: decree my and justice: judgement my to keep: obey

“And as for you, if you conduct your life as I want you to, like your father David did, and if you very sincerely obey all the statutes and laws that I have commanded you to obey,

5 and to arise: establish [obj] throne kingdom your upon Israel to/for forever: enduring like/as as which to speak: promise upon David father your to/for to say not to cut: lack to/for you man from upon throne Israel

I will do what I promised your father that I would do: I promised him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants.

6 if to return: turn back to return: turn back [emph?] you(m. p.) and son: descendant/people your from after me and not to keep: obey commandment my statute my which to give: put to/for face: before your and to go: went and to serve: minister God another and to bow to/for them

“But if you or your descendants turn away from me and disobey the commands and decrees that I have given to you, and if you start to worship other gods,

7 and to cut: eliminate [obj] Israel from upon face [the] land: soil which to give: give to/for them and [obj] [the] house: home which to consecrate: consecate to/for name my to send: depart from upon face my and to be Israel to/for proverb and to/for taunt in/on/with all [the] people

I will remove my Israeli people from the land that I have given to them. I will also abandon this temple that I have set apart/dedicated to be the place where people should worship me. Then people everywhere will despise [the people of] Israel and make fun of them.

8 and [the] house: home [the] this to be high all to pass upon him be desolate: appalled and to whistle and to say upon what? to make: do LORD thus to/for land: country/planet [the] this and to/for house: home [the] this

This temple will become a heap of ruins. Everyone who passes by will be astonished [when they see it], and they will be shocked and say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this temple?’

9 and to say upon which to leave: forsake [obj] LORD God their which to come out: send [obj] father their from land: country/planet Egypt and to strengthen: hold in/on/with God another (and to bow *Q(K)*) to/for them and to serve: minister them upon so to come (in): bring LORD upon them [obj] all [the] distress: harm [the] this

And other people will reply, ‘It happened because the Israeli people abandoned Yahweh their God, the one who brought their ancestors out of Egypt. They started to accept and worship other gods. And that is why Yahweh has caused them to experience all these disasters.’”

10 and to be from end twenty year which to build Solomon [obj] two [the] house: home [obj] house: temple LORD and [obj] house: home [the] king

Solomon’s [workers] labored for 20 years to build the temple and the palace.

11 Hiram king Tyre to lift: bear [obj] Solomon in/on/with tree: wood cedar and in/on/with tree: wood cypress and in/on/with gold to/for all pleasure his then to give: give [the] king Solomon to/for Hiram twenty city in/on/with land: country/planet [the] Galilee

Hiram, the king of Tyre had [arranged for his workers to] give Solomon all the cedar and pine [logs] and all the gold that he needed [for this work]. After it was all finished, King Solomon gave to Hiram 20 cities in the Galilee region.

12 and to come out: come Hiram from Tyre to/for to see: see [obj] [the] city which to give: give to/for him Solomon and not to smooth in/on/with eye: appearance his

But when Hiram went from Tyre [to Galilee] to see the cities that Solomon had given to him, he was not pleased with them.

13 and to say what? [the] city [the] these which to give: give to/for me brother: compatriot my and to call: call by to/for them land: country/planet Cabul till [the] day: today [the] this

He said to Solomon, “My friend, those cities that you gave me are worthless!” So, that area is still called ‘Worthless’.

14 and to send: depart Hiram to/for king hundred and twenty talent gold

Hiram paid Solomon only five tons of gold [for those cities].

15 and this word: because [the] taskworker which to ascend: establish [the] king Solomon to/for to build [obj] house: temple LORD and [obj] house: home his and [obj] [the] Millo and [obj] wall Jerusalem and [obj] Hazor and [obj] Megiddo and [obj] Gezer

This is a record of the work that King Solomon forced men to do. He forced them to build the temple and his palace and the terraces/landfills [on the east side of the city], and the wall around Jerusalem, and [to rebuild the cities of] Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer.

16 Pharaoh king Egypt to ascend: rise and to capture [obj] Gezer and to burn her in/on/with fire and [obj] [the] Canaanite [the] to dwell in/on/with city to kill and to give: give her parting gift to/for daughter his woman: wife Solomon

[The reason they needed to rebuild Gezer was that the army of] the king of Egypt had attacked Gezer and captured it. Then they had burned [the houses in] the city and killed all the people of the Canaan people-group who lived there. The king of Egypt gave that city to his daughter as a gift when she married Solomon.

17 and to build Solomon [obj] Gezer and [obj] (Lower) Beth-horon (Lower) Beth-horon Lower (Beth Horon)

So Solomon’s workers also rebuilt Gezer, and they also rebuilt Lower Beth-Horon [city].

18 and [obj] Baalath and [obj] (Tadmor *Q(K)*) in/on/with wilderness in/on/with land: country/planet

They also rebuilt Baalath and Tamar [towns] in the desert in [the southern part of] Judah.

19 and [obj] all city [the] storage which to be to/for Solomon and [obj] city [the] chariot and [obj] city [the] horseman and [obj] desire Solomon which to desire to/for to build in/on/with Jerusalem and in/on/with Lebanon and in/on/with all land: country/planet dominion his

They also built cities where they kept the supplies for Solomon, the places where his horses and chariots were kept. They also built everything else that Solomon wanted them to build, in Jerusalem and in Lebanon, and in other places in the area over which he ruled.

20 all [the] people [the] to remain from [the] Amorite [the] Hittite [the] Perizzite [the] Hivite and [the] Jebusite which not from son: descendant/people Israel they(masc.)

There were many people who belonged to the Amor people-group, the Heth people-group, the Periz people-group, the Hiv people-group, and the Jebus people-group who were not killed when the Israelis captured their land.

21 son: descendant/people their which to remain after them in/on/with land: country/planet which not be able son: descendant/people Israel to/for to devote/destroy them and to ascend: establish them Solomon to/for taskworker to serve: labour till [the] day: today [the] this

[Their descendants still lived in Israel]. It was those people whom Solomon forced to become his slaves [to build all those places], and they are still slaves.

22 and from son: descendant/people Israel not to give: make Solomon servant/slave for they(masc.) human [the] battle and servant/slave his and ruler his and officer his and ruler chariot his and horseman his

But Solomon did not force any Israeli people to become slaves. Some Israelis became soldiers and army officers and commanders and drivers of his chariots and soldiers who rode on horses.

23 these ruler [the] to stand which upon [the] work to/for Solomon fifty and five hundred [the] to rule in/on/with people [the] to make: do in/on/with work

There were 550 officials who supervised the slaves who worked [to build all those places].

24 surely daughter Pharaoh to ascend: rise from city David to(wards) house: home her which to build to/for her then to build [obj] [the] Millo

After [Solomon’s wife, who was] the daughter of the king of Egypt, moved from [the place outside Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’ to the palace that Solomon’s workers built for her, Solomon [told his workers to] fill in the slopes on the east side of the city.

25 and to ascend: offer up Solomon three beat in/on/with year burnt offering and peace offering upon [the] altar which to build to/for LORD and to offer: offer with him which to/for face: before LORD and to complete [obj] [the] house: home

Three times each year Solomon [brought to the temple] offerings that were completely burned [on the altar] and offerings to restore fellowship with Yahweh. He also brought incense to be burned in the presence of Yahweh. And so his men finished building the temple.

26 and fleet to make [the] king Solomon in/on/with Ezion-geber Ezion-geber which with Eloth upon lip: shore sea Red (Sea) in/on/with land: country/planet Edom

King Solomon’s [workers] also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-Geber [city], which is near Elath [city], on the shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, in the land belonging to the Edom people-group.

27 and to send: depart Hiram in/on/with fleet [obj] servant/slave his human fleet to know [the] sea with servant/slave Solomon

[King] Hiram sent some very expert sailors to work on the ships with Solomon’s workers.

28 and to come (in): come Ophir [to] and to take: bring from there gold four hundred and twenty talent and to come (in): bring to(wards) [the] king Solomon

They sailed to [the] Ophir [region] and brought back to Solomon about 16 tons of gold.