I Kings 9

vayehi kekhallot shelomoh livnot et-bet-Adonai ve'et-bet hammelekh ve'et kol-khesheq shelomoh asher khafets la'asot

When Solomon had finished building the House of GOD and the royal palace and everything that Solomon had set his heart on constructing,

vayyera Adonai el-shelomoh shenit ka'asher nirah elayw begivon

GOD appeared to Solomon a second time, as before, at Gibeon.

vayyomer Adonai elayw shamati et-tefillatekha ve'et-tekhinnatekha asher hitkhannantah lefanay hiqdashti et-habbayit hazzeh asher banitah lasum-shemi sham ad-olam vehayu enay velibbi sham kol-hayyamim

GOD said to him, “I have heard the prayer and the supplication that you have offered to Me. I consecrate this House that you have built and I set My name there forever. My eyes and My heart shall ever be there.

ve'attah im-telekh lefanay ka'asher halakh david avikha betom-levav uveyosher la'asot kekhol asher tsivvitikha khuqqay umishpatay tishmor

As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked before Me, wholeheartedly and with uprightness, doing all that I have commanded you [and] keeping My laws and My rules,

vahaqimoti et-kisse mamlakhtekha al-yisra'el le'olam ka'asher dibbarti al-david avikha lemor lo-yikkaret lekha ish me'al kisse yisra'el

then I will establish your throne of kingship over Israel forever, as I promised your father David, saying, ‘Your line on the throne of Israel shall never end.’

im-shov teshuvun attem uvenekhem me'akharay velo tishmeru mitsvotay khuqqotay asher natatti lifnekhem vahalakhtem va'avadtem elohim akherim vehishtakhavitem lahem

[But] if you and your descendants turn away from Me and do not keep the commandments [and] the laws that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

vehikhratti et-yisra'el me'al pene ha'adamah asher natatti lahem ve'et-habbayit asher hiqdashti lishmi ashallakh me'al panay vehayah yisra'el lemashal velishninah bekhol-ha'ammim

then I will sweep Israel off the land that I gave them; I will reject the House that I have consecrated to My name; and Israel shall become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

vehabbayit hazzeh yihyeh elyon kol-over alayw yishom vesharaq ve'ameru al-meh asah Adonai kakhah la'arets hazzot velabbayit hazzeh

And as for this House, once so exalted, everyone passing by it shall be appalled and shall hiss. And when they ask, ‘Why did GOD do thus to the land and to this House?’

ve'ameru al asher azevu et-Adonai elohehem asher hotsi et-avotam me'erets mitsrayim vayyakhaziqu belohim akherim (vyshtkhv) [vayyishtakhavu] lahem vayya'avdum al-ken hevi Adonai alehem et kol-hara'ah hazzot

they shall be told, ‘It is because they forsook the ETERNAL their God who freed them from the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore GOD has brought all this calamity upon them.’”

vayehi miqtseh esrim shanah asher-banah shelomoh et-shene habbattim et-bet Adonai ve'et-bet hammelekh

At the end of the twenty years during which Solomon constructed the two buildings, GOD’s House and the royal palace—

khiram melekh-tsor nissa et-shelomoh ba'atse arazim uva'atse veroshim uvazzahav lekhol-kheftso az yitten hammelekh shelomoh lekhiram esrim ir be'erets haggalil

since King Hiram of Tyre had supplied Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber and gold that he required—King Solomon in turn gave Hiram twenty towns in the region of Galilee.

vayyetse khiram mitsor lirot et-he'arim asher natan-lo shelomoh velo yoshru be'enayw

But when Hiram came from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

vayyomer mah he'arim ha'elleh asher-natattah li akhi vayyiqra lahem erets kavul ad hayyom hazzeh

“My brother,” he said, “what sort of towns are these you have given me?” So they were named the land of Cabul, as is still the case.

vayyishlakh khiram lammelekh me'ah ve'esrim kikkar zahav

However, Hiram sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

vezeh devar-hammas asher-he'elah hammelekh shelomoh livnot et-bet Adonai ve'et-beto ve'et-hammillo ve'et khomat yerushalai͏m ve'et-khatsor ve'et-megiddo ve'et-gazer

This was the purpose of the forced labor that Solomon imposed: It was to build the House of GOD, his own palace, the Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and [to fortify] Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

paroh melekh-mitsrayim alah vayyilkod et-gezer vayyisrefah ba'esh ve'et-hakkena'ani hayyoshev ba'ir harag vayyittenah shillukhim levitto eshet shelomoh

(Pharaoh king of Egypt had come up and captured Gezer; he destroyed it by fire, killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the town, and gave it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.)

vayyiven shelomoh et-gazer ve'et-bet khoron takhton

So Solomon fortified Gezer, lower Beth-horon,

ve'et-ba'alat ve'et-[tadmor] (tmr) bammidbar ba'arets

Baalith, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land [of Judah],

ve'et kol-are hammiskenot asher hayu lishlomoh ve'et are harekhev ve'et are happarashim ve'et khesheq shelomoh asher khashaq livnot birushalai͏m uvallevanon uvekhol erets memshalto

and all of Solomon’s garrison towns, chariot towns, and towns for his riders—everything that Solomon set his heart on building in Jerusalem and in the Lebanon, and throughout the territory that he ruled.

kol-ha'am hannotar min-ha'emori hakhitti happerizzi hakhivvi vehayevusi asher lo-mibbene yisra'el hemmah

All the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites who were not of the Israelite stock—

benehem asher noteru akharehem ba'arets asher lo-yakhelu bene yisra'el lehakharimam vayya'alem shelomoh lemas-oved ad hayyom hazzeh

those of their descendants who remained in the land and whom the Israelites were not able to annihilate—of these Solomon made a slave force, as is still the case.

umibbene yisra'el lo-natan shelomoh aved ki-hem anshe hammilkhamah va'avadayw vesarayw veshalishayw vesare rikhbo ufarashayw

But he did not reduce any Israelites to slavery; they served, rather, as warriors and as his attendants, officials, and officers, and as commanders of his chariots and riders.

elleh sare hannitsavim asher al-hammelakhah lishlomoh khamishim vakhamesh me'ot harodim ba'am ha'osim bammelakhah

These were the prefects that were in charge of Solomon’s works and were supervising the people engaged in the work, who numbered 550.

akh bat-paroh aletah me'ir david el-betah asher banah-lah az banah et-hammillo

As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the City of David to the palace that he had built for her, he built the Millo.

vehe'elah shelomoh shalosh pe'amim bashanah olot ushelamim al-hammizbeakh asher banah la-Adonai vehaqter itto asher lifne Adonai veshillam et-habbayit

Solomon used to offer burnt offerings and sacrifices of well-being three times a year on the altar that he had built for GOD, and he used to offer incense on the one that was before GOD. And he kept the House in repair.

vo'oni asah hammelekh shelomoh be'etsyon-gever asher et-elot al-sefat yam-suf be'erets edom

King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Sea of Reeds in the land of Edom.

vayyishlakh khiram bo'oni et-avadayw anshe oniyyot yode'e hayyam im avde shelomoh

Hiram sent servants of his with the fleet, mariners who were experienced on the sea, to serve with Solomon’s men.

vayyavo'u ofirah vayyiqkhu misham zahav arba-me'ot ve'esrim kikkar vayyavi'u el-hammelekh shelomoh

They came to Ophir; there they obtained gold in the amount of four hundred and twenty talents, which they delivered to King Solomon.