1 Kings 9: King Solomon Dedicates the Temple – Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading | God’s Promise, Human Condition, and Dedication

Experience the exciting events of 1 Kings 9 with this clear and engaging audio recording. Follow the story of King Solomon’s dedication of the Temple and reflect on God’s promise of glory and human condition in achieving it. Learn from the Scriptures how dedication can be seen through obedience, how God responds to prayer, and how we can apply this to our everyday life. Perfect for study, reflection, or meditation, immerse yourself in this powerful chapter and let the Scriptures come alive.

1 KINGS 9 (NIV)

1 When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord and the royal
palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do,

2 the Lord appeared to him
a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

3 The Lord said to him:
“I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated
this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes
and my heart will always be there.

4 “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and
uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my
decrees and laws,

5 I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as
I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a
successor on the throne of Israel.’

6 “But if you or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the
commands and decrees I have given you and go off to serve other gods and
worship them,

7 then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and
will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then
become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

8 This temple
will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff
and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

9 People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord their God, who
brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping
and serving them—that is why the Lord brought all this disaster on them.’”

10 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two
buildings—the temple of the Lord and the royal palace—

11 King Solomon gave
twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him
with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.

12 But when Hiram went from
Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with
them.

13 “What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?” he
asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul, a name they have to this day. 14
Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

15 Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build
the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and
Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.

16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured
Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then
gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

17 And Solomon
rebuilt Gezer.) He built up Lower Beth Horon,

18 Baalath, and Tadmor in the
desert, within his land,

19 as well as all his store cities and the towns for
his chariots and for his horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in
Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

20 There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites,
Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites).

21 Solomon
conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom
the Israelites could not exterminate—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this
day.

22 But Solomon did not make slaves of any of the Israelites; they were
his fighting men, his government officials, his officers, his captains, and
the commanders of his chariots and charioteers. 23 They were also the chief
officials in charge of Solomon’s projects—550 officials supervising those who
did the work.

24 After Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace
Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces.

25 Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship
offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense before the
Lord along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.

26 King Solomon also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom,
on the shore of the Red Sea.

27 And Hiram sent his men—sailors who knew the
sea—to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s men. 28 They sailed to Ophir and
brought back

420 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.