Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her hast asked the life of thine enemies; into the city of David, until he had but hast asked for thyself undermade an end of building his own standing to discern justice; 12behold, house, and the house of the LORD, and I have done according to thy word: the wall of Jerusalem round about. lo, I have given thee a wise and an "Only the people sacrificed in the high understanding heart; so that there places, because there was no house hath been none like thee before thee, built for the name of the LORD until neither after thee shall any arise those days. And Solomon loved the like unto thee. 13And I have also LORD, walking in the statutes of David given thee that which thou hast not his father; only he sacrificed and of- asked, both riches and honour-so fered in the high places. that there hath not been any among "And the king went to Gibeon to the kings like unto thee all thy sacrifice there; for that was the great days. 14And if thou wilt walk in My high place; a thousand burnt-offerings ways, to keep My statutes and My did Solomon offer upon that altar. commandments, as thy father David "In Gibeon the LORD appeared to did walk, then I will lengthen thy Solomon in a dream by night; and days.' 15 And Solomon awoke, and, God said: 'Ask what I shall give behold, it was a dream; and he came thee.' And Solomon said: "Thou to Jerusalem, and stood before the hast shown unto Thy servant David ark of the covenant of the LORD, and my father great kindness, according offered up burnt-offerings, and offered as he walked before Thee in truth, peace-offerings, and made a feast to and in righteousness, and in upright- all his servants. ness of heart with Thee; and Thou 16Then came there two women, that hast kept for him this great kindness, were harlots, unto the king, and stood that Thou hast given him a son to before him. 17 And the one woman sit on his throne, as it is this day. said: 'Oh, my lord, I and this woman "And now, O LORD my God, Thou dwell in one house; and I was delivhast made Thy servant king instead ered of a child with her in the house. of David my father; and I am but a 18And it came to pass the third day little child; I know not how to go out after I was delivered, that this woman or come in. And Thy servant is in was delivered also; and we were tothe midst of Thy people which Thou gether; there was no stranger with hast chosen, a great people, that can- us in the house, save we two in the not be numbered nor counted for house. 19And this woman's child died multitude. Give Thy servant there- in the night; because she overlay it. fore an understanding heart to judge 20And she arose at midnight, and took Thy people, that I may discern be- my son from beside me, while thy tween good and evil; for who is able handmaid slept, and laid it in her to judge this Thy great people?' bosom, and laid her dead child in my 10 And the speech pleased the Lord, bosom. "And when I rose in the mornthat Solomon had asked this thing.ing to give my child suck, behold, it 11And God said unto him: 'Because was dead; but when I had looked well thou hast asked this thing, and hast at it in the morning, behold, it was not asked for thyself long life; neither not my son, whom I did bear.' 22And hast asked riches for thyself, nor the other woman said: 'Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is 23 Then said the king: "The one saith: This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead; and the other saith: Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.' 24 And the king said: 'Fetch me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. 25And the king said: 'Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.' 26 Then spoke the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned upon her son, and she said: 'Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it.' But the other said: 'It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it.' 27Then the king answered and said: 'Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.' 28And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice. over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year. And these are their names: The son of Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim; the son of Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-bethhanan; 10the son of Hesed, in Arubboth; to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher; "the son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife; 12Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam; 13the son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; even to him pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars; 14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; 15Ahimaaz, in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife; 16Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; "Jehoshaphat the 4 And king Solomon was king over son of Paruah, in Issachar; 18Shimei all Israel. And these were the the son of Ela, in Benjamin; 19Geber princes whom he had: Azariah the the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, son of Zadok, the priest; Elihoreph the country of Sihon king of the and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of and one officer that was [over all the Ahilud, the recorder; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister and the king's friend; and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy. 7And Solomon had twelve officers officers] in the land. 20Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. 5 And Solomon ruled over all the 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. 2And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal; 'ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl. For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River; and he had peace on all sides round about him. 5And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. 15 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father; for Hiram was ever a lover of David. 16And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying: 17 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of my feet. 18But now the LORD my God hath given me rest "And Solomon had forty thousand on every side; there is neither adstalls of horses for his chariots, and versary, nor evil occurrence. And, twelve thousand horsemen. 'And behold, I purpose to build a house those officers provided victual for for the name of the LORD my God, as king Solomon, and for all that came the LORD spoke unto David my father, unto king Solomon's table, every man saying: Thy son, whom I will set in his month; they let nothing be upon thy throne in thy room, he shall lacking. Barley also and straw for build the house for My name. Now the horses and swift steeds brought therefore command thou that they they unto the place where it should hew me cedar-trees out of Lebanon; be, every man according to his charge. and my servants shall be with thy And God gave Solomon wisdom servants; and I will give thee hire and understanding exceeding much, for thy servants according to all that and largeness of heart, even as the thou shalt say; for thou knowest that sand that is on the sea-shore. 10And there is not among us any that hath Solomon's wisdom excelled the wis- skill to hew timber like unto the dom of all the children of the east, Zidonians.' and all the wisdom of Egypt. "For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about. And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five. 13 And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. 14And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings 21 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said: 'Blessed be the LORD this day, who hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.' 22And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: 'I have heard that which thou hast sent unto me; I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of cypress. servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, My and thou shalt receive them; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.' 24So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of cypress according to all his desire. 25And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of beaten oil; thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. 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. 27 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 28 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the levy. 29 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains; besides Solomon's chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people that wrought in the work. And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stone. And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house. and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. 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. And for the house he made windows broad within, and narrow without. And against the wall of the house he built a side-structure round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the Sanctuary; and he made sidechambers round about; "the nethermost story of the side-structure was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made rebatements in the wall of the house round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house. For the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. The door for the lowest row of chambers was in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle row, and out of the middle into the third. So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered in the house with planks of cedar over beams. 10And he built the stories of the side-structure against all the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar. 6 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 Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, which I • Heb. Hirom, and in verse 32. b That is, the holy place. innermost room, the most holy place. "And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying: 12'As for this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in My statutes, and execute Mine ordinances, and keep all My commandments to walk in them; then will I establish My word with thee, spoke unto David thy father; Heb. debir, that is, the hindmost or 4 Heb. middle. 13in that I will dwell therein among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel.' 14So Solomon built the house, and finished it. 15And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house unto the joists of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress. 16And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the joists; he even built them for himself within, for a Sanctuary, even for the most holy place. 17And the house, that is, the temple before [the Sanctuary], was forty cubits long. 18And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen. 19And he prepared the Sanctuary in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 20And before the Sanctuary which was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof, overlaid with pure gold, he set an altar, which he covered with cedar. 21So Solomon overlaid "the house within with pure gold; and he drew chains of gold across the wall before the Sanctuary; and he overlaid it with gold. 22And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished; also the whole altar that belonged to the Sanctuary he overlaid with gold. cherub was ten cubits; both the cherubim were of one measure and one form. 26The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. 27And he set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, 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. 28And he overlaid the cherubim with gold. 29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without. 30And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without. And for the entrance of the Sanctuary he made doors of olive-wood, the doorposts within the frame having five angles. 32And as for the two doors of olive-wood, he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm-trees. So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, within a frame foursquare; and two doors of cypresswood; the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. 35And he carved thereon cherubim and palmtrees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work. 36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams. 23 And in the Sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high. And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits 37 In the fourth year was the foundathe other wing of the cherub; from tion of the house of the LORD laid, the uttermost part of the one wing in the month Ziv. 38 And in the unto the uttermost part of the other eleventh year, in the month Bul, which were ten cubits. 25 And the other is the eighth month, was the house That is, the Sanctuary. |