1 Kings 9 and Proverbs 12:25

1 Kings 9 11Ki 9:19When Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king’s house and all else he desired, 21Ki 3:5; 11:9; 2Ch 7:12the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3Dt 11:12; 1Ki 8:29The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and supplication, which you made before Me. I have consecrated this house which you built by putting My name there forever. And My eyes and My heart shall be there per­petually. 4Ge 17:1; 1Ki 11:4“If you will walk before Me, as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, so that you are obedient to do all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My judgments, 51Ki 2:4; 6:12then I will establish the throne of your kingdom upon Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man upon the throne of Israel.’ 62Sa 7:14–16; 1Ch 28:9“But if you and your sons turn in any way from following Me and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 7Dt 28:37; Ps 44:14then I will cut Israel out of the land which I have given them, and I will cast this house, which I have consecrated for My name, out of My sight, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people. 8Jer 22:8–9; Dt 29:24–26And everyone who passes by this high house will be astonished and will hiss, and they shall say, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land, and to this house?’ 9Dt 29:25–28; Jer 2:10–13And they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods and have worshipped and served them. That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster upon them.’ ” Solomon’s Other Activities 2Ch 8:1–18 101Ki 6:37–7:1; 9:1When twenty years had passed since Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house 112Ch 8:2(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar and fir trees, along with gold, as he had requested), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities Solomon had given him, and he was not pleased with them. 13Jos 19:27He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Kabul to this day. 141Ki 9:11Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talentsAbout 25 tons, or 23 metric tons. of gold. 15Jos 17:11; 2Sa 5:9This is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the Lord and his own house, Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 161Ki 3:1For Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had gone up against and conquered Gezer and burned it with fire and slain the Canaanites that lived in the city and given it as a present to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 17Jos 16:3; 21:22Solomon built Gezer and Lower Beth Horon 18Jos 19:44and Baalath and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, 191Ki 9:1and all the storage cities that Solomon had, cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen and all that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion. 20All the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not children of Israel, 21Jos 15:63; 17:12the descendants of those who were left in the land and whom the people of Israel were not able to utterly destroy, were conscripted by Solomon for slave labor to this day. 22Lev 25:39But Solomon did not make any children of Israel into slaves, but instead used them as men of war, as his servants, his leaders, his captains, rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. 231Ki 5:16; 2Ch 8:10These were the chief officers over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people who did the labor. 242Sa 5:9; 1Ki 7:8But Pharaoh’s daughter moved out of the City of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, and he then built Millo. 25Ex 23:14–17; Dt 16:16Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the Lord, and he burned incense on the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the house. 261Ki 22:48; Nu 33:35; Dt 2:8King Solomon built a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Elath on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom. 271Ki 5:6; 5:9Hiram sent shipmen who had knowledge of the sea to serve alongside Solomon’s men. 281Ch 29:4; 2Ch 8:18They went to Ophir and acquired four hundred and twenty talentsAbout 16 tons, or 14 metric tons. of gold there and brought it to King Solomon. Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man makes it droop, but a good word makes it glad. https://temtube.com/