1st Kings 9:6-26

⁶Forsooth if by turning away, ye and your sons turn away, and pursue or follow not me, and keep not my behests and ceremonies, which I have set forth to you, but ye go, and worship alien gods, and honour them,

⁷I shall do away Israel from the face of the land which I gave to them; and I shall cast away from my sight the temple, which I have hallowed to my name; and Israel shall be into a proverb and into a fable, to all peoples.

⁸And this house shall be into ensample of God’s offence; each man that shall pass by it, shall wonder, and shall hiss, and shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

⁹And they shall answer, For they forsook their Lord God, that led the fathers of them out of Egypt; and they pursued or followed alien gods, and worshipped them, and honoured them; therefore the Lord hath brought in upon them all this evil.

¹⁰Soothly when twenty years were ful filled, after that Solomon had builded twain or two houses, that is, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king,

¹¹while Hiram, king of Tyre, gave to Solomon trees of cedar, and of fir, and gold, by all thing that he had needful; then Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

¹²And Hiram went out of Tyre that he should see the cities, which Solo-mon had given to him, and those or they pleased not him;

¹³and he said, Whether these be the cities, which thou, brother, hast given to me? And he called those cities the land of Cabul, that is, displeasing, unto this day.

¹⁴Also Hiram sent to king Solomon sixscore talents of gold.

¹⁵This is the rent, which Solomon raised, to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and the Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

¹⁶For Pharaoh, king of Egypt, ascended or went up, and took Gezer, and burnt it by fire; and he killed Canaanites, that dwelled in the city, and gave it into a dower to his daughter, the wife of Solomon.

¹⁷Therefore Solomon builded Gezer, and the lower Bethhoron,

¹⁸and Baalath, and Tadmor in the land of wilderness;

¹⁹and he made strong all the towns, that pertained to him, and were with-out wall, and the cities of chariots, and the cities of knights, and what-ever thing pleased him to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his power.

²⁰Solomon made tributaries unto this day all the people, that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, which be not of the sons of Israel,

²¹the sons of these heathen men, that dwelled in the land, that is, which the sons of Israel might not destroy.

²²Soothly king Solomon ordained not any man of the sons of Israel to serve, that is, in vile works, and of the fields, but they were men of war, and servants of him, and princes, and dukes, and masters of his chariots and horses.

²³And five hundred and fifty princes were sovereigns over all the works of Solomon, the which princes had the people subject to them, and command-ed to the works ordained.

²⁴And the daughter of Pharaoh went up from the city of David into her house, which house Solomon had builded to her; then he builded the Millo.

²⁵Also Solomon offered in three times by all years burnt sacrifices and peaceable sacrifices, on the altar which he had builded to the Lord; and he burnt incense before the Lord, and the temple was performed.

²⁶Also king Solomon made a navy in Eziongeber, which is beside Elath, in the brink of the Red Sea, in the land of Idumea.