When Solomon had finished the building of the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, 2Ch 7:111Ki 9:191Ki 6:371Ki 7:511Ki 9:11Ecc 2:10Ecc 2:4Ecc 6:9 The LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 1Ki 3:52Ch 7:121Ki 11:92Ch 1:7-12 The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. 1Jn 5:141Ki 8:292Ki 20:5Psa 10:17Psa 116:1Deu 11:122Ch 6:40Psa 132:13-14 As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances, 1Ki 15:51Ki 3:14Gen 17:11Ki 11:41Ki 11:61Ki 11:381Ki 14:8Deu 28:1 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’ 1Ki 2:41Ki 6:122Sa 7:122Sa 7:161Ch 22:9-101Ki 8:151Ki 8:20Psa 132:11-12 But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 1Ch 28:92Sa 7:14-161Ki 11:4-101Sa 2:302Ch 15:22Ch 7:19-22Jos 23:15-16Psa 89:30 then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. Jer 24:9Psa 44:14Deu 28:37Deu 4:262Ki 25:212Ki 25:9Lev 18:24-28Luk 21:24 Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?’ Deu 29:24-26Jer 22:8-92Ch 7:21Jer 19:8Jer 22:28Dan 9:12Isa 64:11Jer 49:17 and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this evil on them.’” Jer 2:19Jer 5:192Ch 7:22Deu 29:25-28Jer 2:10-13Ezk 36:17-20Jer 12:7-8Jer 16:10-13
At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the LORD’s house and the king’s house 1Ki 6:371Ki 9:12Ch 8:1-18 (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 2Ch 8:21Ki 5:6-102Ch 2:162Ch 2:8-10Jos 20:7 Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him. Jdg 14:3Num 22:34 He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul 1 to this day. Jos 19:27Amo 1:91Ki 5:1-2 Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents 2 of gold. 1Ki 9:111Ki 10:101Ki 10:141Ki 10:211Ki 9:28
This is the reason of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted: to build the LORD’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 1Ki 5:131Ki 9:242Sa 5:9Jos 17:11Jos 11:1Jos 19:36Jdg 1:29Jos 16:10 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 1Ki 3:11Ki 7:81Ki 9:24Jos 16:10 Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower, Jos 16:3Jos 21:222Ch 8:4-18Jos 10:10Jos 19:44 Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness, Jos 19:442Ch 8:4 all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 1Ki 9:11Ki 10:261Ki 4:26-282Ch 1:14Ecc 2:10Ecc 6:9Exo 1:11 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel— 2Ch 8:7-18Deu 7:1-3Exo 23:23Exo 23:28-33Exo 34:11-12Gen 15:19-21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy—of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day. Jdg 1:21Jos 15:63Jos 17:12Gen 9:25-26Ezr 2:55-58Neh 11:3Neh 7:571Ki 5:13 But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. Lev 25:391Ki 4:1-271Sa 8:11-122Ch 8:9-10 These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work. 1Ki 5:162Ch 8:102Ch 2:18
But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo. 1Ki 7:81Ki 11:272Ch 32:52Sa 5:91Ki 3:11Ki 9:15-162Ch 8:11
Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the LORD three times per year, burning incense with them on the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house. 2Ch 8:12-132Ch 8:16Deu 16:16Exo 23:14-171Ch 23:131Ki 6:382Ch 26:16-212Ch 29:11
King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 1Ki 22:48Deu 2:8Num 33:352Ch 8:11-122Ch 8:17-182Ki 14:22 Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 1Ki 10:111Ki 5:61Ki 5:91Ki 22:492Ch 20:36-37 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, 3 and brought it to King Solomon. 1Ch 29:42Ch 8:181Ki 10:11Isa 13:12Job 22:24Job 28:16Psa 45:92Ch 9:10