CHAPTERS 6-11
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1 ¶ And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth
year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the
fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the
second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
2
And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof
was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height
thereof thirty cubits.
3 And the porch
before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according
to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof
before the house.
4 And for the
house he made windows of narrow lights.
5 And against the
wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house
round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round
about:
6
The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six
cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of
the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be
fastened in the walls of the house.
7 And the house,
when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe
nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
8 The door for
the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with
winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
9
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams
and boards of cedar.
10 And then he
built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the
house with timber of cedar.
11 ¶ And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
12
Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in
my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in
them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy
father:
13 And I will
dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
14
So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
15 ¶ And he built the walls of the house within with
boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and
he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house
with planks of fir.
16 And he built
twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even
for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
17 And the house,
that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
18 And the cedar
of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar;
there was no stone seen.
19
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of
the covenant of the LORD.
20 And the oracle
in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and
twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so
covered the altar which was of cedar.
21
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a
partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with
gold.
22 And the whole
house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the
whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
23 And within the
oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
24
And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the
other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the
uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
25 And the other
cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.
26
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other
cherub.
27 And he set the
cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the
cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of
the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in
the midst of the house.
28
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
29 And he carved
all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and
palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
30 And the floor
of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
31 And for the
entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
32 The two doors
also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm
trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the
cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
33 So also made
he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
34 And the two
doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the
two leaves of the other door were folding.
35 And he carved
thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold
fitted upon the carved work.
36
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row
of cedar beams.
37 In the fourth
year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
38 And in the
eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according
to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
1 ¶ But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years,
and he finished all his house.
2
He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was
an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof
thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the
pillars.
3 And it was
covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars,
fifteen in a row.
4
And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in
three ranks.
5 And all the doors
and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three
ranks.
6 And he made a
porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof
thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
7 Then he made a
porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it
was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
8 And his house
where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work.
Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken
to wife, like unto this porch.
9 All these were
of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws,
within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the
outside toward the great court.
10 And the
foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
11 And above were
costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
12 And the great
court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar
beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of
the house.
13 ¶ And king Solomon sent and
fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
14 He was a
widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a
worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning
to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his
work.
15 For he cast
two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
16 And he made
two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height
of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was
five cubits:
17 And nets of
checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter,
and seven for the other chapiter.
18 And he made the
pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters
that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other
chapiter.
19
And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily
work in the porch, four cubits.
20 And the
chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the
belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows
round about upon the other chapiter.
21
And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the
right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left
pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
22 And upon the
top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
23
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it
was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty
cubits did compass it round about.
24 And under the
brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit,
compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
25 It stood upon
twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west,
and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the
sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
26 And it was an
hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim
of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
27 And he made
ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the
breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
28 And the work
of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between
the ledges:
29
And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and
cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions
and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
30 And every base
had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had
undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side
of every addition.
31 And the mouth
of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was
round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth
of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
32 And under the
borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined
to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
33 And the work
of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their
naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
34 And there were
four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of
the very base itself.
35
And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit
high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof
were of the same.
36 For on the
plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims,
lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions
round about.
37
After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting,
one measure, and one size.
38 Then made he
ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four
cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
39 And he put
five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house
eastward over against the south.
40 And Hiram made
the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all
the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
41 The two
pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of
the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
42 And four
hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for
one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the
pillars;
43
And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
44 And one sea,
and twelve oxen under the sea;
45 And the pots,
and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to
king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
46 In the plain
of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth
and Zarthan.
47 And Solomon
left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was
the weight of the brass found out.
48 ¶ And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto
the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the
shewbread was,
49
And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on
the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of
gold,
50 And the bowls,
and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold;
and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy
place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
51
So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the
LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated;
even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures
of the house of the LORD.
1 ¶ Then Solomon assembled the elders
of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the
children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up
the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 And all the men
of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
3 And all the
elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
4 And they
brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all
the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and
the Levites bring up.
5
And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were
assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that
could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
6 And the priests
brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle
of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
7 For the
cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the
cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
8 And they drew
out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place
before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this
day.
9 There was
nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at
Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they
came out of the land of Egypt.
10 And it came to
pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
11 So that the
priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the
LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
12 ¶ Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would
dwell in the thick darkness.
13
I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee
to abide in for ever.
14 And the king
turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the
congregation of Israel stood;)
15 And he said,
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto
David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
16 Since the day
that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all
the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I
chose David to be over my people Israel.
17 And it was in
the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
18 And the LORD
said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto
my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
19 Nevertheless
thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy
loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
20
And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in
the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD
promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
21 And I have set
there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made
with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
22 ¶ And Solomon stood before the
altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread
forth his hands toward heaven:
23 And he said,
LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth
beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee
with all their heart:
24
Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him:
thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it
is this day.
25 Therefore now,
LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst
him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne
of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
26 And now, O God
of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy
servant David my father.
27 But will God
indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot
contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
28
Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his
supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which
thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
29 That thine
eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of
which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this
place.
30 And hearken
thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they
shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and
when thou hearest, forgive.
31 If any man
trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this
house:
32 Then hear thou
in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his
way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his
righteousness.
33 When thy
people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess
thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
34 Then hear thou
in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto
the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
35 When heaven is
shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name,
and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
36 Then hear thou
in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that
thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy
land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
37
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting,
mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the
land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
38 What prayer
and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which
shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
39 Then hear thou
in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man
according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only,
knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
40 That they may
fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
41 Moreover
concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a
far country for thy name's sake;
42 (For they
shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out
arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
43
Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the
stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name,
to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house,
which I have builded, is called by thy name.
44 If thy people
go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou
hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:
45 Then hear thou
in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
46 If they sin
against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry
them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
47 Yet if they
shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and
repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them
captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
48 And so return
unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their
enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land,
which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the
house which I have built for thy name:
49
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy
dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
50 And forgive
thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein
they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who
carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
51
For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest
forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
52 That thine
eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication
of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
53
For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to
be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when
thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.
54 ¶ And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of
praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before
the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his
hands spread up to heaven.
55 And he stood,
and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
56 Blessed be the
LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he
promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he
promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
57
The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not
leave us, nor forsake us:
58 That he may
incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our
fathers.
59
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the
LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause
of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter
shall require:
60 That all the
people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
61
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in
his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
62 ¶ And the king, and all Israel with him, offered
sacrifice before the LORD.
63 And Solomon
offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and
twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house
of the LORD.
64 The same day
did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the
LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of
the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too
little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
65 And at that
time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from
the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God,
seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
66 On the eighth
day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness
that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
1 ¶ And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the
building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's
desire which he was pleased to do,
2
That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto
him at Gibeon.
3 And the LORD
said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast
made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my
name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
4
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in
integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have
commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
5 Then I will
establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to
David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
6 But if ye shall
at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my
commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve
other gods, and worship them:
7 Then will I cut
off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my
sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
8 And at this
house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and
shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and
to this house?
9
And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who
brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon
other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD
brought upon them all this evil.
10 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when
Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD,
and the king's house,
11 (Now Hiram the
king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with
gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty
cities in the land of Galilee.
12 And Hiram came
out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and
they pleased him not.
13 And he said,
What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them
the land of Cabul unto this day.
14 And Hiram sent
to the king sixscore talents of gold.
15 ¶ And this is the reason of the levy which king
Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his
own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and
Gezer.
16 For Pharaoh
king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain
the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his
daughter, Solomon's wife.
17
And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
18 And Baalath,
and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
19 And all the
cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for
his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon,
and in all the land of his dominion.
20
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites,
Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
21 Their children
that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were
not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of
bondservice unto this day.
22
But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were
men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of
his chariots, and his horsemen.
23 These were the
chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty,
which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
24
But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house
which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
25 And three
times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the
altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that
was before the LORD. So he finished the house.
26
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside
Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
27 And Hiram sent
in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the
servants of Solomon.
28 And they came
to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty
talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
1 ¶ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of
Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard
questions.
2 And she came to
Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come
to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
3 And Solomon
told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he
told her not.
4 And when the
queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,
5 And the meat of
his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his
ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he
went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
6 And she said to
the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
7 Howbeit I
believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold,
the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I
heard.
8 Happy are thy
men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
9 Blessed be the
LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel:
because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do
judgment and justice.
10 And she gave
the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such
abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
11 And the navy
also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty
of almug trees, and precious stones.
12 And the king
made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there
came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
13 And king
Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside
that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her
own country, she and her servants.
14 ¶ Now the weight of gold that came
to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
15 Beside that he
had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all
the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
16 And king
Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels
of gold went to one target.
17 And he made
three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield:
and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
18 Moreover the
king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
19
The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind:
and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions
stood beside the stays.
20 And twelve
lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there
was not the like made in any kingdom.
21
And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the
vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of
silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
22 For the king
had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came
the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
23 So king
Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
24 And all the
earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
25 And they
brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a
rate year by year.
26 And Solomon
gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for
chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
27 And the king
made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
28 And Solomon
had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received
the linen yarn at a price.
29 And a chariot
came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse
for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their
means.
1 ¶ But king Solomon loved many strange women, together
with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
Zidonians, and Hittites;
2 Of the nations
concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you:
for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto
these in love.
3 And he had
seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives
turned away his heart.
4 For it came to
pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD
his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5 For Solomon
went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the
abomination of the Ammonites.
6 And Solomon did
evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD,
as did David his father.
7 Then did Solomon
build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is
before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8 And likewise
did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
9 ¶ And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his
heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him
twice,
10 And had
commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods:
but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
11
Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee,
and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded
thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy
servant.
12
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's
sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
13
Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to
thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have
chosen.
14 ¶ And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon,
Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
15 For it came to
pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every
male in Edom;
16 (For six
months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male
in Edom:)
17 That Hadad
fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into
Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
18
And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with
them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which
gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
19 And Hadad
found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the
sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
20
And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes
weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the
sons of Pharaoh.
21 And when Hadad
heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of
the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
22 Then Pharaoh
said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to
go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any
wise.
23 And God
stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
24 And he
gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of
Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
25 And he was an
adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over
Syria.
26 ¶ And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of
Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even
he lifted up his hand against the king.
27 And this was
the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his
father.
28 And the man
Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he
was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
29 And it came to
pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had
clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
30 And Ahijah
caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
31 And he said to
Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God
of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will
give ten tribes to thee:
32 (But he shall
have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city
which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)
33 Because that
they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess
of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the
children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in
mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
34 Howbeit I will
not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the
days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
35 But I will take
the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
36 And unto his
son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before
me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
37 And I will
take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and
shalt be king over Israel.
38 And it shall
be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my
ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with
thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel
unto thee.
39 And I will for
this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
40 Solomon sought
therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto
Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
41 ¶ And the rest of the acts of
Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book
of the acts of Solomon?
42 And the time
that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
43 And Solomon
slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and
Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.