1 Net toe Salomo gereed was met die bou van die huis van die HERE en die huis van die koning en elke begeerte wat Salomo wou uitvoer,2 verskyn die HERE vir die tweede maal aan Salomo soos Hy aan hom verskyn het in G¡beon;3 en die HERE sê vir hom: Ek het jou gebed en jou smeking gehoor wat jy voor my aangesig uitgespreek het; Ek het hierdie huis wat jy gebou het, geheilig deur my Naam daar te vestig tot in ewigheid; en my oë en my hart sal daar altyd wees.4 En wat jou betref, as jy wandel voor my aangesig soos jou vader Dawid gewandel het, met 'n volkome hart en in opregtheid deur te doen net soos Ek jou beveel het, en my insettinge en verordeninge onderhou,5 dan sal Ek die troon van jou koningskap oor Israel vir ewig bevestig, soos Ek jou vader Dawid beloof het deur te sê: Daar sal vir jou nooit 'n man ontbreek op die troon van Israel nie.6 As julle en julle kinders ooit van My afvallig word en my gebooie, my insettinge wat Ek julle voorgehou het, nie onderhou nie, maar ander gode gaan dien en voor hulle neerbuig,7 dan sal Ek Israel uit die land uitroei wat Ek hulle gegee het, en die huis wat Ek vir my Naam geheilig het, sal Ek van my aangesig wegwerp, sodat Israel 'n spreekwoord en 'n spotlied sal word onder al die volke.8 En hierdie huis wat so hoog is -- elkeen wat daarlangs verbygaan, sal hom verbaas en spot, en hulle sal vra: Waarom het die HERE so gedoen met hierdie land en met hierdie huis?9 Dan sal hulle sê: Omdat hulle die HERE hul God verlaat het wat hulle vaders uit Egipteland uitgelei het, en ander gode aangehang en daarvoor neergebuig en hulle gedien het -- daarom het die HERE al hierdie onheil oor hulle gebring.10 En aan die einde van twintig jaar waarin Salomo die twee huise, die huis van die HERE en die huis van die koning, gebou het --11 Hiram, die koning van Tirus, het Salomo gehelp met sederhout en sipreshout en goud soveel as hy wou hê -- gee koning Salomo aan Hiram twintig stede in die land Galil,a.12 En Hiram het uit Tirus uitgetrek om die stede te bekyk wat Salomo hom gegee het, maar hulle was nie reg in sy oë nie.13 Daarop sê hy: Wat vir stede is dit wat jy my gegee het, my broer? En hulle noem dit die land Kabul, tot vandag toe.14 En Hiram het aan die koning honderd en twintig talente goud gestuur.15 En dit was die saak van die dwangarbeiders wat koning Salomo laat opkom het om die huis van die HERE en sy huis en Millo en die muur van Jerusalem en Hasor en Meg¡ddo en Geser te bou.17 So het Salomo dan Geser opgebou en Bet-Horon-Onder18 en B älat en Tamar in die woestyn, in die land,19 en al die voorraadstede wat Salomo gehad het, en die stede vir die strydwaens en die stede vir die perderuiters en wat Salomo graag wou gebou het in Jerusalem en in die L¡banon en in die hele land van sy heerskappy.20 Al die mense wat oorgebly het van die Amoriete, Hetiete, Feresiete, Hewiete en Jebusiete, wat nie uit die kinders van Israel was nie --21 hulle kinders wat n hulle in die land oorgebly het, wat die kinders van Israel nie met die banvloek kon tref nie, die het Salomo laat opkom vir dwangarbeid, tot vandag toe.22 Maar van die kinders van Israel het Salomo niemand 'n slaaf gemaak nie, maar hulle was krygsmanne en sy dienaars en sy owerstes en sy adjudante en owerstes oor sy strydwaens en sy perderuiters.23 Dit was die hoofopsigters van Salomo oor die werk: vyf honderd en vyftig wat oor die mense wat die werk verrig, bevel gevoer het.24 Skaars het die dogter van Farao opgetrek uit die stad van Dawid na haar huis wat hy vir haar gebou het, of hy het Millo gebou.25 En Salomo het drie maal in die jaar brandoffers en dankoffers gebring op die altaar wat hy vir die HERE gebou het, hy het naamlik rook laat opgaan by die altaar wat daar was voor die aangesig van die HERE, sodat hy die huis voltooi het.26 Koning Salomo het ook skepe gebou in seon-Geber wat by Elot aan die kus van die Skelfsee in die land Edom lê.27 Toe stuur Hiram sy dienaars op die skepe, seevaarders wat die see ken, saam met die dienaars van Salomo;28 en hulle het in Ofir aangekom en daarvandaan goud gaan haal, vier honderd en twintig talente, en dit na koning Salomo gebring.

1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, 2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon. 3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. 4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: 5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel. 6 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: 7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: 8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? 9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.

10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, 11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. 13 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day. 14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

15 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. 16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, 18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, 19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, 21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day. 22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. 23 These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

24 But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.

26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.