1 Kings 9

This chapter was originally written in the Hebrew language and since the 16th century is divided into 28 verses.

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), Aleppo Codex (10th century), and Codex Leningradensis (1008).{{sfn|Würthwein|1995|pp=35-37}}

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; $\backslash mathfrak\{G\}$^B; 4th century) and Codex Alexandrinus (A; $\backslash mathfrak\{G\}$^A; 5th century).{{sfn|Würthwein|1995|pp=73-74}}{{efn|The whole book of 1 Kings is missing from the extant Codex Sinaiticus.{{Catholic Encyclopedia|wstitle=Codex Sinaiticus}}}}

• {{bibleverse|1 Kings|9:1–9|9}}: {{bibleverse|2 Chronicles|7:11–22|9}}[https://biblehub.com/bsb/1_kings/9.htm 1 Kings 9], Berean Study Bible
• {{bibleverse|1 Kings|9:10–28|9}}: {{bibleverse|2 Chronicles|8:1–18|9}}

With the completion of the Temple, God did not need to appear to Solomon in Gibeon (verse 2) but in Jerusalem, assuring Solomon of the continuation of his dynasty and the temple, as long as God's laws were kept.{{sfn|Dietrich|2007|p=239}} The destruction of the Temple and the loss of land are predicted here, as well as the possibility of return, so this section contains two

things: 'an explanation for woe and an offer of salvation'.{{sfn|Dietrich|2007|p=239}}

Several times 1 Kings 9–10 overlaps with {{bibleverse|1 Kings|3:1|9}}–{{bibleverse-nb|1 Kings|4:34|9}}, bracketing the construction of the temple.{{sfn|Dietrich|2007|p=239}} After paying Hiram I of Tyre with agricultural products ({{bibleverse|1 Kings|5:25|9}}), Solomon gave a strip of land in Galilee (at the Bay of Akko), but Hiram was not satisfied with this gift. However, in 2 Chronicles 8:2 it is asserted that Hiram also gave Solomon some cities as a present.{{sfn|Dietrich|2007|p=239}}

:Then Hiram sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.{{bibleref2|1 Kings|9:14|NKJV}} NKJV

• "120 talents": about 4{{frac|1|2}} tons, or 4 metric tons.Note on 1 Kings 9:14 in MEV One talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms.Note on 1 Kings 9:14 in ESV

This section parallels the narrative in 1 Kings 5:13–18, emphasizing that Israelites were not employed as forced labor, but 'only' Canaanites, for the construction of various cities outside Jerusalem.{{sfn|Dietrich|2007|p=239}} Currently, there are archaeological excavation of the cities in the list, in particular of Gezer, Megiddo, and Hazor.{{sfn|Dietrich|2007|p=239}} In Jerusalem, Solomon expanded the construction of 'Millo' (verse 15), a term which is probably related to the meaning of 'to fill', referring to a substructure designed to secure the sloping terrain of the palace grounds (cf 2 Samuel 5:9; 1 Kings 11:27; 2 Kings 12:20).{{sfn|Dietrich|2007|p=240}}

Pharaoh's daughter (verse 16) moved to her own palace (verse 24).{{sfn|Dietrich|2007|p=240}}

Solomon's triannual sacrificial feasts at the temple was mentioned in verse 25, followed by a report of Solomon's shipping expedition from Red Sea (or 'Reed Sea, cf. Exodus 14), to Ophir, a place that could be near Aden or on the Horn of Africa.{{sfn|Dietrich|2007|p=240}}

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:And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted 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{{bibleref2|1 Kings|9:15|ESV}} ESV

• "Millo" ({{langx|he|המלוא}}): a structure in Jerusalem first mentioned as a part of the city of David in {{bibleverse|2|Samuel|5:9|KJV}} (parallels in {{bibleverse|1|Chronicles|11:8|NKJV}}), and in the Books of Kings (this verse), previously seeming to have been a rampart built by the Jebusites prior to Jerusalem's being conquered by the Israelites.Blank, W., [http://www.keyway.ca/htm2003/20030728.htm Bible Study – The Millo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226221304/http://www.keyway.ca/htm2003/20030728.htm |date=2014-02-26 }}, accessed 9 October 2017
• "Hazor" ({{langx|he|תל חצור}}), also Chatsôr ({{langx|he|חָצוֹר}}), translated in LXX as Hasōr ({{langx|grc|Άσώρ}}){{cite book |last1=Gauthier |first1=Henri |title=Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 4 |date=1927 |page=24 |url=https://archive.org/details/Gauthier1927/page/n15}}{{cite book |last1=Wallis Budge |first1=E. A. |title=An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II |date=1920 |publisher=John Murray |page=[https://archive.org/details/egyptianhierogly02budguoft/page/1021 1021] |url=https://archive.org/details/egyptianhierogly02budguoft}} and Tell el-Qedah ({{langx|ar|تل القدح}}): now an archaeological tell in Israel, Upper Galilee, north of the Sea of Galilee, in the northern Korazim Plateau.John Garstang, History in the Bible, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 3, no. 3, Essays in Memory of Franz Oppenheimer 1864–1943, pp. 371-385, 1944
• "Megiddo" ("Tel Megiddo" ({{langx|he|תל מגידו}}; {{langx|ar|مجیدو}}, Tell al-Mutesellim, lit. "Mound of the Governor"; {{langx|el|Μεγιδδώ}}, Megiddo): now a tell (archaeological mound), situated in northern Israel near Kibbutz Megiddo, about 30 km south-east of Haifa.The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities,[https://en-humanities.tau.ac.il/archaeology.megiddo Megiddo.] in Archaeology & History of the Land of the Bible International MA in Ancient Israel Studies, Tel Aviv University: "...Megiddo has a 6,000-years history of continuous settlement and is repeatedly named in the ancient archives of Egypt and Assyria...a fascinating picture of state-formation and social evolution in the Bronze Age (ca. 3500-1150 B.C.) and Iron Age (ca. 1150-600 B.C.)..."
• "Gezer": now Tel Gezer; {{langx|he|גֶּזֶר}}), in {{langx|ar|تل الجزر}} – Tell Jezar or Tell el-Jezari, an archaeological site in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains at the border of the Shfela region roughly midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.{{cite book |last= Lipinski |first= Edward |title= On the Skirts of Canaan in the Iron Age (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta) |publisher= Peeters |year= 2006 |location= Leuven, Belgium |pages=96–97 |isbn= 978-90-429-1798-9 }}

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• Cabul
• Canaanites
• Children of Israel
• Elath
• Ezion-Geber
• Galilee
• Israel
• Jerusalem
• Millo
• Pharaoh's Daughter
• Solomon's Temple
• Tyre}}
• Related Bible parts: Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28, 2 Samuel 7, 1 Kings 7, 1 Kings 8, 2 Chronicles 7, 2 Chronicles 8

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• {{cite book | last= Coogan| first = Michael David | author-link= Michael D. Coogan | title = The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version, Issue 48 | editor-last1 = Coogan | editor-first1= Michael David | editor-first2 = Marc Zvi | editor-last2 = Brettler | editor-first3 = Carol Ann | editor-last3 = Newsom | editor-first4= Pheme | editor-last4 = Perkins | edition= Augmented 3rd | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2007 |isbn = 978-0195288810 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HmpMPgAACAAJ}}
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• Jewish translations:
• [https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/15893 Melachim I - I Kings - Chapter 9 (Judaica Press)]. Hebrew text and English translation [with Rashi's commentary] at Chabad.org
• Christian translations:
• [http://www.gospelhall.org/bible/bible.php?passage=1+Kings+9 Online Bible at GospelHall.org] (ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English)
• [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=11&chapter=9&version=9 1 Kings chapter 9. Bible Gateway]

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Category:Phoenicians in the Hebrew Bible

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