THE BOOK OF SECOND CHRONICLES
King James Version
1 ¶ And Solomon the son of David was
strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified
him exceedingly.
2
Then Solomon spake unto all
Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to
every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.
3
So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the
high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle
of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the
wilderness.
4
But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it:
for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
5
Moreover the brasen altar, that
Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put
before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto
it.
6
And Solomon went up thither to the brasen
altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and
offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
7
In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto
him, Ask what I shall give thee.
8
And Solomon said unto God, Thou
hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his
stead.
9
Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be
established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the
earth in multitude.
10 Give me now wisdom and
knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge
this thy people, that is so great?
11
And God said to Solomon, Because
this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast
asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou
mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:
12
Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give
thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of
the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after
thee have the like.
13 ¶ Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place
that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle
of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.
14
And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a
thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he
placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
15
And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as
plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.
16
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen
yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
17
And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a
chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an
horse for an hundred and fifty: and so
brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites,
and for the kings of Syria, by their means.
1 ¶ And Solomon determined to build an
house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his
kingdom.
2
And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to
bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain,
and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
3
And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre,
saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and
didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell
therein, even so deal with me.
4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to
him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and
for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the
sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God.
This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
5
And the house which I build is great: for great is our God
above all gods.
6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot
contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an
house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
7
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and
in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and
that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with
me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
8
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants
can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy
servants,
9 Even to prepare me timber in
abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
10
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that
cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand
measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand
baths of oil.
11 ¶ Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because
the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.
12
Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,
that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued
with prudence and understanding, that might build an
house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
13
And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with
understanding, of Huram my father's,
14 The son of a
woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre,
skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in
iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in
fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find
out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the
cunning men of my lord David thy father.
15
Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the
wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
16 And we will cut wood out of
Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by
sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
17
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the
land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered
them; and they were found an hundred and fifty
thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
18 And he set threescore and ten
thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers
in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people
a work.
1 ¶ Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at
Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto
David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2
And he began to build in the second day of the second
month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3
Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed
for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits
after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
4
And the porch that was in the front of the house, the
length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the
height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it
within with pure gold.
5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and
set thereon palm trees and chains.
6
And he garnished the house with precious stones for
beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
7
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the
walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved
cherubims on the walls.
8
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was
according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof
twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred
talents.
9
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And
he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
10 ¶ And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
11
And the wings of the cherubims
were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching
to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise
five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
12
And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching
to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to
the wing of the other cherub.
13
The wings of these cherubims
spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on
their feet, and their faces were inward.
14
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and
fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
15
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and
five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five
cubits.
16 And he made chains, as in the
oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an
hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
17
And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the
right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
1 ¶ Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the
length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the
height thereof.
2
Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim,
round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty
cubits did compass it round about.
3
And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass
it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of
oxen were cast, when it was cast.
4
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.
5
And the thickness of it was an
handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with
flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
6 He made also ten lavers, and
put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things
as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for
the priests to wash in.
7
And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their
form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
8 He made also ten tables, and
placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he
made an hundred basons of gold.
9
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the
great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with
brass.
10
And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over
against the south.
11 ¶ And Huram made the pots, and the
shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for
king Solomon for the house of God;
12
To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the
chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to
cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
13 And four hundred pomegranates
on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two
pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.
14
He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
15
One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
16 The pots also, and the shovels,
and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to
king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
17
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay
ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
18
Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance:
for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
19
And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house
of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;
20
Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they
should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
21 And the flowers, and the lamps,
and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
22
And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the
censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for
the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
1 ¶ Thus all the
work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon
brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver,
and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house
of God.
2 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 Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of
the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
3
Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto
the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
4 And all the elders of Israel
came; and the Levites took up the ark.
5
And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the
congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did
the priests and the Levites bring up.
6
Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that
were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep
and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
7
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the
LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even
under the wings of the cherubims:
8 For the cherubims
spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims
covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
9
And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of
the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen
without. And there it is unto this day.
10 There was nothing in the ark
save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a
covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
11 ¶ And it came to pass, when the priests were come out
of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and
did not then wait by course:
12 Also the Levites which were the
singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their
brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and
harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an
hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
13 It came even to
pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound
to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their
voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick,
and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth
for ever: that then the house was filled with a
cloud, even the house of the LORD;
14
So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason
of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the
house of God.
1 ¶ Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would
dwell in the thick darkness.
2
But I have built an house of
habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
3
And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole
congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
4
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath
with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his
mouth to my father David, saying,
5 Since the day that I brought
forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes
of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be
there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
6
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there;
and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
7 Now it was in the heart of
David my father to build an house for the name of the
LORD God of Israel.
8
But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch
as it was in thine heart to build an house for my
name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:
9
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy
son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build
the house for my name.
10
The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath
spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the
throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name
of the LORD God of Israel.
11
And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of
the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
12 ¶ And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the
presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
13
For Solomon had made a brasen
scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high,
and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood,
and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and
spread forth his hands toward heaven,
14
And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee
in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest
covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that
walk before thee with all their hearts:
15 Thou which hast kept with thy
servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine
hand, as it is this day.
16
Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant
David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There
shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the
throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my
law, as thou hast walked before me.
17
Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified,
which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
18
But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?
behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain
thee; how much less this house which I have built!
19
Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and
to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer
which thy servant prayeth before thee:
20
That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night,
upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer
which thy servant prayeth toward this place.
21
Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant,
and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou
from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest,
forgive.
22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear,
and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
23
Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy
servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head;
and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
24 And if thy people Israel be put
to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall
return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this
house;
25
Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of
thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
26 When the heaven is shut up, and
there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray
toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou
dost afflict them;
27
Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way,
wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land,
which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
28
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if
there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers;
if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or
whatsoever sickness there be:
29 Then what prayer or what
supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when
every one shall know his own sore and his own grief,
and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
30
Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and
forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart
thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the
children of men:)
31
That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as
they live in the land which thou gavest unto our
fathers.
32
Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy
people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and
thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out
arm; if they come and pray in this house;
33
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from 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, and fear thee, as doth thy people
Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
34 If thy people go out to war
against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto
thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built
for thy name;
35
Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause.
36 If they sin against thee, (for
there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry
with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away
captives unto a land far off or near;
37
Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto
thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have
sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
38
If they return to thee with all their heart and with all
their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them
captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest
unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the
house which I have built for thy name:
39 Then hear thou from the
heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications,
and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against
thee.
40
Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and
let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made
in this place.
41 Now therefore arise, O LORD
God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy
priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in
goodness.
42
O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed:
remember the mercies of David thy servant.
1 ¶ Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire
came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and
the glory of the LORD filled the house.
2
And the priests could not enter into the house of the
LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S
house.
3
And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came
down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with
their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the
LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
4 Then the king and all the
people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
5
And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two
thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand
sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the
house of God.
6
And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also
with instruments of musick of the
LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David
praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and
all Israel stood.
7
Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was
before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat
of the peace offerings, because the brasen
altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and
the meat offerings, and the fat.
8
Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days,
and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of
Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
9
And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for
they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the
feast seven days.
10
And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he
sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness
that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
11
Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the
king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to
make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
12 ¶ And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said
unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
13
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command
the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence
among my people;
14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then
will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
15
Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in
this place.
16
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my
name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine
heart shall be there perpetually.
17
And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy
father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt
observe my statutes and my judgments;
18
Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according
as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There
shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
19
But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my
commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods,
and worship them;
20 Then will I pluck them up by
the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have
sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a
proverb and a byword among all nations.
21
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to
every one that passeth by
it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus
unto this land, and unto this house?
22
And it shall be answered, Because
they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the
land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served
them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon
them.
1 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of twenty years,
wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
2
That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon,
Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
3 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
4
And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store
cities, which he built in Hamath.
5
Also he built Bethhoron the
upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with
walls, gates, and bars;
6 And Baalath, and all the store
cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the
horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon,
and throughout all the land of his dominion.
7
As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and
the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which
were not of Israel,
8 But of their children, who were
left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
9
But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants
for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains
of his chariots and horsemen.
10 And these were the chief of
king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the
people.
11
And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the
city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of
Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
12 ¶ Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD
on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
13
Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to
the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the
solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast
of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tabernacles.
14
And he appointed, according to the order of David his
father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their
charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day
required: the porters also by their courses at every gate:
for so had David the man of God commanded.
15
And they departed not from the commandment of the king
unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the
treasures.
16
Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of
the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.
17
Then went Solomon to Eziongeber,
and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
18
And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants
ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the
servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred
and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
1 ¶ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of
Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a
very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold
in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she
communed with him of all that was in her heart.
2
And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was
nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
3
And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of
Solomon, and the house that he had built,
4
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his
servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his
cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the
house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
5
And she said to the king, It was
a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts,
and of thy wisdom:
6
Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine
eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was
not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I
heard.
7
Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which
stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
8
Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to
set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved
Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he
thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
9
And she gave the king an hundred
and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance,
and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba
gave king Solomon.
10
And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of
Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum
trees and precious stones.
11
And the king made of the algum
trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's
palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen
before in the land of Judah.
12
And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her
desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her
servants.
13 ¶ Now the weight of gold that came
to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
14
Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all
the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to
Solomon.
15
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold:
six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
16
And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three
hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house
of the forest of Lebanon.
17
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and
overlaid it with pure gold.
18
And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool
of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on
each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:
19
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.
20
And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon 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 not any thing
accounted of in the days of Solomon.
21
For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of
Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and
silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
22 And king Solomon passed all the
kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
23
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of
Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
24
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver,
and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a
rate year by year.
25 And Solomon had four thousand
stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed
in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
26
And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto
the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
27 And the king made silver in
Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore
trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
28
And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out
of all lands.
29
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are
they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of
Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer
against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
30
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty
years.
31
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in
the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.