44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou 14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to knowest all the wickedness which thine heart keep my statutes and my commandments, as is privy to, that thou didst to David my thy father David did walk, then I will lengthfather; therefore the LORD shall return thy en thy days. wickedness upon thine own head:

45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever.

15 And Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream: and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell npon him, that he died: and the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. CHAP. III.

16 Then came there two women that were harlots unto the king, and stood before him.

ND Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh

of daugh- woman

ter, and brought her into the city of David, was delivered of a child with her in the house. until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

18 And it came to pass, the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.

17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I

2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when had considered it in the morning, behold, it

51 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to So-I iomon in a dream by night: and God said, was not my son which I did bear. Ask what I shall give thee. 22 And the other woman said, Nay; but

6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. unto thy servant David my father great mer-And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, cy, according as he walked before thee in and the living is my son. Thus they spake truth, and in righteousness, and in upright-before the king.

ness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for 23 Then said the king, The one saith, him this great kindness, that thou hast given This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son

7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast is the dead, and my son is the living. made thy servant king instead of David my 24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. father; and I am but a little child: I know And they brought a sword before the king. not how to go out or come in. 25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and

8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great peo-half to the other. ple, that cannot be numbered nor counted for 26 Then spake the woman whose the livmultitude. ing child was unto the king, (for her bowels

9 Give therefore thy servant an under-yearned upon her son,) and she said, O my standing heart to judge thy people, that lord, give her the living child, and in no wise may discern between good and bad: for slay it: but the other said, Let it be neither who is able to judge this thy so great a people? mine nor thine, but divide it. 10 And the speech pleased the LORD, that 27 Then the king answered and said, Give Solomon had asked this thing. her the living child, and in no wise slay it : she is the mother thereof.

11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for 28 And all Israel heard of the judgmen! thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for which the king had judged, and they feared thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine ene- the king for they saw that the wisdom of mies; but hast asked for thyself understand-God was in him to do judgment. ing to discern judgment;

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12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: I have given a understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.

king Solomon was king, over all Israel. an 2 And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest;

3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.

4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar wee the priests:

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26 And Solomon had forty thousand And Azariah the son of Nathan was over! Officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve principal officer, and the king's friend; And Ahishar was over the household; Adoniram the son of Abda wus over tribute.

thousand horsemen.

27 And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.

28 Barley also and straw for the horses

1 And Solomon had twelve officers over
Israel which provided victuals for the

g and his household: each man his month and dromedaries brought they unto the place
where the officers were, every man according
a year made provision.
3 And these are their names: The son of to his charge.

ur, in mount Ephraim.

29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and 9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in understanding exceeding much, and largesea-shore. haalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-ness of heart, even as the sand that is on the 30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the eth-hanan. 10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him ertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher. wisdom of all the children of the east coun11 The son of Abinadab, in all the region try, and all the wisdom of Egypt. f Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife.

31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezralite, and Heman, and Chal12 Baana the son of Ahilud; to him per-col, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his ained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-fame was in all nations round about. by Zartanah, beneath Jezshean, which reel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokueam.

32 And he spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.

13 The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead: to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead: to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities, with walls and brasen bars.

33 And he spake of trees, from the cedartree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

34 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of 14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Maha-the earth, which had heard of his wisdom. naim.

15 Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife.

16 Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth.

CHAP. V.

unto (for he had heard that AND Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants they had anointed him king in the room of his father;) for Hiram was ever a lover of David.

2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, 3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God, for the wars which were them under the soles of his feet. about him on every side, until the LORD put

17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah in Issachar.

18 Shimei the son of Elah in Benjamin. 19 Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.

20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

21 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms, from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

22 ¶ And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roe-bucks, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.

4 But now the LORD my God hath given adversary nor evil occurrent. me rest on every side, so that there is neither

5 And behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.

6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar-trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants, accordknowest that there is not among us any that ing to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.

7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son

24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.

25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely,
every man under his vine and under his fig-over this great people.
tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the
days of Solomon.

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8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sent

est to me for: and I will do all thy desire without in the wall of the house he made concerning timber of cedar, and concerning narrowed rests round about, that the beams timber of fir, should not be fastened in the walls of the 9 My servants shall bring them down from house. Lebanon unto the sea; and I will convey 7 And the house, when it was in building, them by sea in floats unto the place that thou was built of stone made ready before it was shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be brought thither so that there was neither discharged there, and thou shalt receive hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron, heard them and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in the house while it was in building. in giving food for my household.

To So Hiram gave Solomon cedar-trees, and fir-trees, according to all his desire.

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 cham ber, and out of the middle into the third.

11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. 12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.

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.

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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,

131 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thou-and execute my judgments, and keep all my sand a month by courses; a month they were commandments to walk in them; then will in Lebanon, and two months at home: and I perform my word with thee, which I spake Adoniram was over the levy. unto David thy father.

15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains:

13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel, 14 So Solomon built the house, and finish16 Besides the chief of Solomon's officers ed it. which were over the work, three thousand 15 And he built the walls of the house withand three hundred, which ruled over the peo-in with boards of cedar, both the floor of the ple that wrought in the work. house, and the walls of the ceiling and he

17 And the king commanded, and they covered them on the inside with wood, and brought great stones, costly stones, and hew-covered the floor of the house with planks ed stones, to lay the foundation of the house of fir.

18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's 16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides builders did hew them,and the stone-squarers: of the house, both the floor and the walls so they prepared timber and stones to build with boards of cedar: he even built them for the house. it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

17 And the house, that is, the temple be fore 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.

CHAP. VI.

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

20 And the oracle in the fore-part 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

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wing unto the uttermost part of the other breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them; and the other pillars and were ten cubits. 25 And the other cherub was ten cubits; the thick beam were before them. both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.

7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of 26 The height of the one cherub was ten judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other. cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. 8 And his house where he dwelt had 27 And he set the cherubims within the ́inner house and they stretched forth the another court within the porch, which was of wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the like work. Solomon made also an house the one touched the one wall, and the wing for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken of the other cherub touched the other wall; to wife, like unto this porch. 9 All these were of costly stones, according and their wings touched one another in the to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with midst of the house. 28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold. saws, within and without, even from the 29 And he carved all the walls of the house foundation unto the coping, and so on the round about with carved figures of cheru- outside toward the great court. bims 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 sideposts were a fifth part of the wall.

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.

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. 14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of 33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive-tree, a fourth part of the wall. Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, 34 And the two doors were of fir-tree: the a worker in brass: and he was filled with two leaves of the one door were folding, and wisdom and understanding, and cunning to And he came to the two leaves of the other door were folding. work all works in brass. 35 And he carved thereon cherubims, and king Solomon, and wrought all his work. palm-trees, and open flowers; and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work. 361 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.

CHAP. VII.

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 chequer-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 net-work, to cover UT Solomon was building his own house the chapiters that were upon the top with

house.

chapiter.

19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily-work in the porch, four cubits.

2¶ He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, 20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the net-work; and upon the pillars. 3 And it was covered with cedar above the pomegranates, were two hundred, in upon the beams that lay on forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row.

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

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 thereof Boaz.
light in three ranks.

61 And he made a porch of pillars; the
length thereof was fifty cubits, and the

22 And upon the top of the pillars was lilywork; so was the work of the pillars finished. 23 And he made a molten sea, ten cu

bits 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 two net-works, even two rows of pomegranthe brim thereof was wrought like the brimates for one net-work, to cover the two bowls of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained of the chapiters that were upon the pillars; two thousand baths. 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

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 Zarthan. 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.

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;

The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two net-works, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;

42 And four hundred pomegranates for the

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, four-square, not round.

17 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 shew-bread 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. CHAP. VIII. THEN the elders of Is

are, 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

32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axle-trees 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 axle-trees, 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 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 mea-the priests took up the ark. sure, 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,

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.