1 King Solomon finished God’s house and the king house. He built all he wanted. ️✅ 2 God came to Solomon again, like before. ✨ 3 God said, “I hear your talk to Me. I chose this house for Me. My Name is here. I look at it. I care, all the time.” ️❤️ 4 God said, “You be good like your dad David. Do My rules. Do what I say.” 5 God said, “Then I will keep your family as kings in Israel for a long time.” ⏳ 6 God said, “But if you or your kids stop My rules and go to other gods, that is bad.” 7 God said, “Then I will take Israel out of this land. I will turn from this house.” ➡️️ 8 God said, “This house will be a pile. People who walk by will be shocked and ask, ‘Why did God do this?’” 9 They will say, “They left God who took them from Egypt. They chose other gods. So God sent bad trouble.” ♂️➡️⚠️ 10 After 20 years, Solomon was done with God’s house and the king house. ️20✅ 11 Hiram, the king of Tyre, gave wood and gold to Solomon. So Solomon gave Hiram 20 towns in Galilee. ️ 12 Hiram came to see the towns. He did not like them. ♂️ 13 He said, “What are these towns, my friend?” He called the land “Cabul,” like “no good.” ️❌ 14 Hiram had sent 120 big gold gifts to Solomon. 15 Solomon made many people work to build God’s house, the king house, the Millo, the city wall, and towns: Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. ️ 16 The king of Egypt took Gezer and burned it. He gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, who married Solomon. 17 Solomon fixed Gezer and Lower Beth-horon. ️➡️ 18 He built Baalath and Tadmor in the wild land. ️ 19 He built safe towns to keep stuff, and towns for carts and horse men. He built more in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all his land. 20 Some people from old groups still lived there: Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 21 Solomon made these people work for him. They had to work. 22 Solomon did not make the people of Israel work like that. They were helpers, guards, and leaders, and cart and horse men. ️ 23 There were 550 bosses over the work teams. 550! ♂️♀️ 24 Pharaoh’s daughter moved from the City of David to her new house Solomon made. Then he built the Millo. ️ 25 Three times each year, Solomon gave gifts to God on the big stone table. Smoke went up to God. God’s house was all done. ️ 26 Solomon made boats at Ezion-Geber, near Eloth, by the Red Sea, in Edom. ⛵ 27 Hiram sent his boat men who knew the sea. They went with Solomon’s men. ✈️ 28 They sailed to Ophir and brought back a lot of gold, 420. ⛵