1The LORD's temple and Solomon's palace were now finished, and Solomon had built everything he wanted.
2Some time later the LORD appeared to him again in a dream, just as he had done at Gibeon.
6But if you or any of your descendants disobey my commands or start worshipping foreign gods,
7I will no longer let my people Israel live in this land I gave them. I will desert this temple where I said I would be worshipped. Then people everywhere will think this nation is only a joke and will make fun of it.
8This temple will become a pile of rocks! Everyone who walks by will be shocked, and they will ask, “Why did the LORD do such a terrible thing to his people and to this temple?”
14He sent Solomon only five thousand kilogrammes of gold in return.
15After Solomon's workers had finished the temple and the palace, he ordered them to fill in the land on the east side of Jerusalem, to build a wall around the city, and to rebuild the towns of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16Earlier, the king of Egypt had captured the town of Gezer; he burnt it to the ground and killed the Canaanite people living there. Then he gave it to his daughter as a wedding present when she married Solomon.
17So Solomon had the town rebuilt.
Solomon made his workers rebuild Lower Beth-Horon,
18Baalath, and Tamar in the desert of Judah.
19They also built towns where he could keep his supplies and his chariots and horses. Solomon made them build whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and anywhere in his kingdom.
20-22Solomon did not force the Israelites to do his work. They were his soldiers, officials, leaders, commanders, chariot captains, and chariot drivers. But he did make slaves of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites who were living in Israel. These were the descendants of those foreigners the Israelites could not destroy, and they remained Israel's slaves.
23Solomon appointed five hundred and fifty officers to be in charge of his workers and to watch over his building projects.
24Solomon's wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt, moved from the older part of Jerusalem to her new palace. Then Solomon had the land on the east side of Jerusalem filled in.
25Three times a year, Solomon burnt incense and offered sacrifices to the LORD on the altar he had built.
Solomon had now finished building the LORD's temple.
26He also had a lot of ships at Ezion-Geber, a town in Edom near Eloth on the Red Sea.
27-28King Hiram let some of his experienced sailors go to the country of Ophir with Solomon's own sailors, and they brought back about fourteen thousand kilogrammes of gold for Solomon.
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