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1 Kings 9

1 Kings 9:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ando it came to pass, when Solomon
Shlomoh (Hebrew #8010)
peaceful; Shelomah, David's successor
KJV usage: Solomon.
Pronounce: shel-o-mo'
Origin: from 7965
had finished
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
the building
banah (Hebrew #1129)
to build (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), X surely.
Pronounce: baw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
of the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, and the king’s
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
q, and allr Solomon’s
Shlomoh (Hebrew #8010)
peaceful; Shelomah, David's successor
KJV usage: Solomon.
Pronounce: shel-o-mo'
Origin: from 7965
desire
chesheq (Hebrew #2837)
delight
KJV usage: desire, pleasure.
Pronounce: khay'-shek
Origin: from 2836
which he was pleased
chaphets (Hebrew #2654)
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
KJV usage: X any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
Pronounce: khaw-fates'
Origin: a primitive root
to do
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
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2 Chron. 7:11• 11And Solomon completed the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Jehovah, and in his own house, he did prosperously. (2 Chron. 7:11)
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1 Kings 7:1• 1And Solomon was thirteen years building his own house; and he finished all his house. (1 Kings 7:1)
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2 Chron. 8:6• 6and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for chariots, and the cities for the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and on Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. (2 Chron. 8:6)

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-9:  God's covenant in a vision with Solomon.
10-14:  The mutual presents of Solomon and Hiram.
15-23:  In Solomon's works the Gentiles were his bondmen, the Israelites honourable servants.
24:  Pharaoh's daughter removes to her house.
25:  Solomon's yearly solemn sacrifices.
26-28:  His navy fetches gold from Ophir.
A.M. 3013.
B.C. 991.
it came.
1 Kings 6:37‑38• 37In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Jehovah laid, in the month Zif;
 38and in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished in all its parts, and according to all the fashion of it. So he was seven years in building it. (1 Kings 6:37‑38)
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1 Kings 7:1,51• 1And Solomon was thirteen years building his own house; and he finished all his house.
 51And all the work was finished that king Solomon made for the house of Jehovah. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated; the silver and the gold and the vessels he put among the treasures of the house of Jehovah. (1 Kings 7:1,51)
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2 Chron. 7:11‑22• 11And Solomon completed the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Jehovah, and in his own house, he did prosperously.
 12Then Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: I have heard thy prayer, and I have chosen for myself this place for a house of sacrifice.
 13If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
 14and my people, who are called by my name, humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.
 15Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attentive to the prayer made in this place;
 16for I have now chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
 17And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;
 18then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to rule over Israel.
 19But if ye turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them;
 20then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
 21And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passes by it; so that he shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
 22And they shall say, Because they forsook Jehovah the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and have attached themselves to other gods, and have worshipped them and served them; therefore he has brought upon them all this evil. (2 Chron. 7:11‑22)
the house.
2 Chron. 8:1‑6• 1And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of Jehovah and his own house,
 2that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
 3And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah, and overcame it.
 4And he built Tadmor, in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
 5And he built upper Beth-Horon and lower Beth-Horon, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
 6and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for chariots, and the cities for the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and on Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. (2 Chron. 8:1‑6)
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Eccl. 2:4• 4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards; (Eccl. 2:4)
all Solomon's.
1 Kings 9:11,19• 11Hiram the king of Tyre having furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and cypress-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,--that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
 19and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and cities for chariots, and cities for the horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and on Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. (1 Kings 9:11,19)
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Eccl. 2:10• 10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour. (Eccl. 2:10)
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Eccl. 6:9• 9Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind. (Eccl. 6:9)
• 1KI 9:1-9This passage completes the second part of the history of Solomon. (“The Lord Speaks: 1 Kings 9:1-9” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And it came to pass when Solomon had completed the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,