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Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes,
but he got no heat.
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Why his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young
virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her
lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
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So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found
Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
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And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but
the king knew her not.
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Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he
prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
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And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done
so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bore him after Absalom.
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And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and
they following Adonijah helped him.
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But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet,
and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with
Adonijah.
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And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which
is by Enrogel, and called all his brothers the king's sons, and all the men of
Judah the king's servants:
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But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his
brother, he called not.
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Why Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Have you not heard
that Adonijah the son of Haggith does reign, and David our lord knows it not?
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Now therefore come, let me, I pray you, give you counsel, that you may save your
own life, and the life of your son Solomon.
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Go and get you in to king David, and say to him, Did not you, my lord, O king,
swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me,
and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?
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Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you,
and confirm your words.
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And Bathsheba went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old;
and Abishag the Shunammite ministered to the king.
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And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. And the king said, What
would you?
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And she said to him, My lord, you swore by the LORD your God to your handmaid,
saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my
throne.
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And now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and now, my lord the king, you know it not:
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And he has slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and has called all
the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host:
but Solomon your servant has he not called.
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And you, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should
tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
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Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his
fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
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And, see, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.
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And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come
in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the
ground.
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And Nathan said, My lord, O king, have you said, Adonijah shall reign after me,
and he shall sit on my throne?
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For he is gone down this day, and has slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in
abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and
Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God
save king Adonijah.
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But me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, has he not called.
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Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you have not showed it to your
servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
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Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the
king's presence, and stood before the king.
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And the king swore, and said, As the LORD lives, that has redeemed my soul out
of all distress,
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Even as I swore to you by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon your
son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my stead; even so
will I certainly do this day.
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Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king,
and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
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And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.
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The king also said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause
Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
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And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over
Israel: and blow you with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.
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Then you shall come up after him, that he may come and sit on my throne; for he
shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and
over Judah.
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God
of my lord the king say so too.
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As the LORD has been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make
his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
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So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride
on king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
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And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed
Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king
Solomon.
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And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and
rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
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And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an
end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Why is
this noise of the city being in an uproar?
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And while he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came;
and Adonijah said to him, Come in; for you are a valiant man, and bring good
tidings.
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And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Truly our lord king David has made
Solomon king.
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And the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they
have caused him to ride on the king's mule:
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And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and
they are come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the
noise that you have heard.
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And also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.
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And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God
make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than
your throne. And the king bowed himself on the bed.
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And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which has given
one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it.
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And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went
every man his way.
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And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on
the horns of the altar.
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And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon: for, see,
he has caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to
me today that he will not slay his servant with the sword.
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And Solomon said, If he will show himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair
of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.
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So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and
bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said to him, Go to your house.
2:1
Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged Solomon his
son, saying,
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I go the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
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And keep the charge of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his
statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is
written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and
wherever you turn yourself:
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That the LORD may continue his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If
your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their
heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the
throne of Israel.
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Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did
to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to
Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and
put the blood of war on his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes
that were on his feet.
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Do therefore according to your wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the
grave in peace.
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But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of
those that eat at your table: for so they came to me when I fled because of
Absalom your brother.
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And, behold, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim,
which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he
came down to meet me at Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying, I will
not put you to death with the sword.
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Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for you are a wise man, and know what you
ought to do to him; but his hoar head bring you down to the grave with blood.
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So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
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And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years
reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
2:12
Then sat Solomon on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was
established greatly.
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And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she
said, Come you peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
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He said moreover, I have somewhat to say to you. And she said, Say on.
2:15
And he said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their
faces on me, that I should reign: however, the kingdom is turned about, and is
become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.
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And now I ask one petition of you, deny me not. And she said to him, Say on.
2:17
And he said, Speak, I pray you, to Solomon the king, (for he will not say you
no,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
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And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for you to the king.
2:19
Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the
king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne,
and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right
hand.
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Then she said, I desire one small petition of you; I pray you, say me not no.
And the king said to her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say you no.
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And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother to
wife.
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And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why do you ask Abishag the
Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder
brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of
Zeruiah.
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Then king Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if
Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
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Now therefore, as the LORD lives, which has established me, and set me on the
throne of David my father, and who has made me an house, as he promised,
Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
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And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on
him that he died.
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And to Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you to Anathoth, to your own
fields; for you are worthy of death: but I will not at this time put you to
death, because you bore the ark of the LORD God before David my father, and
because you have been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
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So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to the LORD; that he might
fulfill the word of the LORD, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in
Shiloh.
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Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned
not after Absalom. And Joab fled to the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold
on the horns of the altar.
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And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled to the tabernacle of the LORD;
and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
saying, Go, fall on him.
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And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said to him, Thus said the
king, Come forth. And he said, No; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the
king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
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And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that
you may take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the
house of my father.
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And the LORD shall return his blood on his own head, who fell on two men more
righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not
knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel,
and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
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Their blood shall therefore return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his
seed for ever: but on David, and on his seed, and on his house, and on his
throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.
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So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on him, and slew him: and he
was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
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And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and
Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
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And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build you an house in
Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth there any where.
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For it shall be, that on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, you
shall know for certain that you shall surely die: your blood shall be on your
own head.
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And Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king has said,
so will your servant do. And Shimei dwelled in Jerusalem many days.
2:39
And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of
Shimei ran away to Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei,
saying, Behold, your servants be in Gath.
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And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his
servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
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And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was
come again.
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And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make you to
swear by the LORD, and protested to you, saying, Know for a certain, on the day
you go out, and walk abroad any where, that you shall surely die? and you said
to me, The word that I have heard is good.
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Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have
charged you with?
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The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness which your heart
is privy to, that you did to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return
your wickedness on your own head;
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And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established
before the LORD for ever.
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So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell on
him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
3:1
And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's
daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of
building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem
round about.
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Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built to
the name of the LORD, until those days.
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And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he
sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
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And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high
place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer on that altar.
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In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask
what I shall give you.
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And Solomon said, You have showed to your servant David my father great mercy,
according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in
uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great kindness,
that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
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And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my
father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
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And your servant is in the middle of your people which you have chosen, a great
people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
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Give therefore your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, that I
may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this your so great a
people?
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And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing.
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And God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for
yourself long life; neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the
life of your enemies; but have asked for yourself understanding to discern
judgment;
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Behold, I have done according to your words: see, I have given you a wise and an
understanding heart; so that there was none like you before you, neither after
you shall any arise like to you.
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And I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches, and honor:
so that there shall not be any among the kings like to you all your days.
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And if you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as
your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days.
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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.
3:16
Then came there two women, that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him.
3:17
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I
was delivered of a child with her in the house.
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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.
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And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
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And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid
slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
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And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but
when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did
bear.
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And the other woman said, No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your
son. And this said, No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son. Thus
they spoke before the king.
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Then said the king, The one said, This is my son that lives, and your son is the
dead: and the other said, No; but your son is the dead, and my son is the
living.
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And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
3:25
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and
half to the other.
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Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her bowels
yearned on her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in
no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither my nor yours, but divide
it.
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Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay
it: she is the mother thereof.
3:28
And 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 judgment.
4:1
So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
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And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,
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Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud,
the recorder.
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were
the priests:
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And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan
was principal officer, and the king's friend:
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And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the
tribute.
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And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the
king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
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And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
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The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:
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The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of
Hepher:
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The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of
Solomon to wife:
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Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean,
which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even to the
place that is beyond Jokneam:
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The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; 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, three score great cities with walls and brazen bars:
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:
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Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
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Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
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Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
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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.
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Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating
and drinking, and making merry.
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And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the
Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served
Solomon all the days of his life.
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And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and three
score measures of meal,
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Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside
harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted fowl.
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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.
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And Judah and Israel dwelled safely, every man under his vine and under his fig
tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
4:26
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve
thousand horsemen.
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And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came to
king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.
4:28
Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they to the place
where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
4:29
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of
heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
4:30
And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east
country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
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For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol,
and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
4:32
And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
4:33
And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop
that springs out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of
creeping things, and of fishes.
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And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of
the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.
5:1
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to 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.
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And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
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You know how that David my father could not build an house to 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 his feet.
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But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, so that there is
neither adversary nor evil result.
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And, behold, I purpose to build an house to the name of the LORD my God, as the
LORD spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, whom I will set on your throne
in your room, he shall build an house to my name.
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Now therefore command you that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my
servants shall be with your servants: and to you will I give hire for your
servants according to all that you shall appoint: for you know that there is not
among us any that can skill to hew timber like to the Sidonians.
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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 has given to David a wise
son over this great people.
5:8
And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which you sent
to me for: and I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and
concerning timber of fir.
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My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea: and I will convey
them by sea in floats to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause
them to be discharged there, and you shall receive them: and you shall
accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
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So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.
5:11
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.
5:12
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.
5:13
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty
thousand men.
5:14
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.
5:15
And Solomon had three score and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore
thousand hewers in the mountains;
5:16
Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand
and three hundred, which ruled over the people that worked in the work.
5:17
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed
stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
5:18
And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stone squarers:
so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
6:1
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.
6:2
And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was
three score cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height
thereof thirty cubits.
6:3
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.
6:4
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
6:5
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:
6:6
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.
6:7
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 ax nor any tool of
iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
6:8
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.
6:9
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and
boards of cedar.
6:10
And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they
rested on the house with timber of cedar.
6:11
And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
6:12
Concerning this house which you are in building, if you will walk in my
statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in
them; then will I perform my word with you, which I spoke to David your father:
6:13
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people
Israel.
6:14
So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
6:15
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor
of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside
with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
6:16
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.
6:17
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
6:18
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all
was cedar; there was no stone seen.
6:19
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the
covenant of the LORD.
6:20
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.
6:21
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.
6:22
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.
6:23
And within the oracle he made two cherubim of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
6:24
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 to the uttermost part of
the other were ten cubits.
6:25
And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and
one size.
6:26
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
6:27
And he set the cherubim within the inner house: and they stretched forth the
wings of the cherubim, 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 middle of the house.
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And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
6:29
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.
6:30
And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
6:31
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.
6:32
The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved on them carvings of
cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and
spread gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.
6:33
So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of
the wall.
6:34
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.
6:35
And he carved thereon cherubim and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them
with gold fitted on the carved work.
6:36
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar
beams.
6:37
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the
month Zif:
6:38
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.
7:1
But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his
house.
7:2
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, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
7:3
And it was covered with cedar above on the beams, that lay on forty five
pillars, fifteen in a row.
7:4
And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three
ranks.
7:5
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against
light in three ranks.
7:6
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.
7:7
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.
7:8
And his house where he dwelled 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 to this porch.
7:9
All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones,
sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation to the coping, and
so on the outside toward the great court.
7:10
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten
cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
7:11
And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
7:12
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.
7:13
And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
7:14
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 worked all his
work.
7:15
For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of
twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
7:16
And he made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the tops of the pillars: the
height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital
was five cubits:
7:17
And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were
on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other
capital.
7:18
And he made the pillars, and two rows round about on the one network, to cover
the capitals that were on the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the
other capital.
7:19
And the capitals that were on the top of the pillars were of lily work in the
porch, four cubits.
7:20
And the capitals on 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 on the other capital.
7:21
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.
7:22
And on the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars
finished.
7:23
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.
7:24
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.
7:25
It stood on 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 on them, and all their hinder parts were
inward.
7:26
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was worked like the brim
of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
7:27
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.
7:28
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders
were between the ledges:
7:29
And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim:
and on the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were
certain additions made of thin work.
7:30
And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners
thereof had supports: under the laver were supports molten, at the side of every
addition.
7:31
And the mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: but the mouth
thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also on
the mouth of it were engravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
7:32
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.
7:33
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.
7:34
And there were four supports to the four corners of one base: and the supports
were of the very base itself.
7:35
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.
7:36
For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved
cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and
additions round about.
7:37
After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one
measure, and one size.
7:38
Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every
laver was four cubits: and on every one of the ten bases one laver.
7:39
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.
7:40
And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end
of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
7:41
The two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the
two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the capitals which
were on the top of the pillars;
7:42
And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of
pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were
on the pillars;
7:43
And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
7:44
And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
7:45
And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all these vessels, which
Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
7:46
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between
Succoth and Zarthan.
7:47
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many:
neither was the weight of the brass found out.
7:48
And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained to the house of the LORD: the
altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the show bread was,
7:49
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,
7:50
And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, 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.
7:51
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.
8:1
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes,
the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to 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.
8:2
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in
the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
8:3
And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
8:4
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.
8:5
And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to
him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be
told nor numbered for multitude.
8:6
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to his place,
into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of
the cherubim.
8:7
For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the
cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
8:8
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
to this day.
8:9
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.
8:10
And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the
cloud filled the house of the LORD,
8:11
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.
8:12
Then spoke Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
8:13
I have surely built you an house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide
in for ever.
8:14
And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel:
(and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
8:15
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spoke with his mouth to
David my father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
8:16
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.
8:17
And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the
LORD God of Israel.
8:18
And the LORD said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build an
house to my name, you did well that it was in your heart.
8:19
Nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son that shall come forth
out of your loins, he shall build the house to my name.
8:20
And the LORD has performed his word that he spoke, 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.
8:21
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.
8:22
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:
8:23
And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or
on earth beneath, who keep covenant and mercy with your servants that walk
before you with all their heart:
8:24
Who have kept with your servant David my father that you promised him: you spoke
also with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
8:25
Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that
you promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on
the throne of Israel; so that your children take heed to their way, that they
walk before me as you have walked before me.
8:26
And now, O God of Israel, let your word, I pray you, be verified, which you
spoke to your servant David my father.
8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens
cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built?
8:28
Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, O
LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer, which your servant prays
before you to day:
8:29
That your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the
place of which you have said, My name shall be there: that you may listen to the
prayer which your servant shall make toward this place.
8:30
And listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel,
when they shall pray toward this place: and hear you in heaven your dwelling
place: and when you hear, forgive.
8:31
If any man trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him to cause
him to swear, and the oath come before your altar in this house:
8:32
Then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked,
to bring his way on his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him
according to his righteousness.
8:33
When your people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have
sinned against you, and shall turn again to you, and confess your name, and
pray, and make supplication to you in this house:
8:34
Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring
them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
8:35
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against
you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their
sin, when you afflict them:
8:36
Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your
people Israel, that you teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and
give rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
8:37
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew,
locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of
their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be;
8:38
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all your people
Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth
his hands toward this house:
8:39
Then hear you in heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to
every man according to his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only,
know the hearts of all the children of men;)
8:40
That they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to
our fathers.
8:41
Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of your people Israel, but comes out
of a far country for your name's sake;
8:42
(For they shall hear of your great name, and of your strong hand, and of your
stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
8:43
Hear you in heaven your dwelling place, and do according to all that the
stranger calls to you for: that all people of the earth may know your name, to
fear you, as do your people Israel; and that they may know that this house,
which I have built, is called by your name.
8:44
If your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever you shall send
them, and shall pray to the LORD toward the city which you have chosen, and
toward the house that I have built for your name:
8:45
Then hear you in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their
cause.
8:46
If they sin against you, (for there is no man that sins not,) and you be angry
with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives
to the land of the enemy, far or near;
8:47
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land where they were carried
captives, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of them that
carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have
committed wickedness;
8:48
And so return to you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land
of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray to you toward their
land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the
house which I have built for your name:
8:49
Then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven your dwelling place,
and maintain their cause,
8:50
And forgive your people that have sinned against you, and all their
transgressions wherein they have transgressed against you, and give them
compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion
on them:
8:51
For they be your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of
Egypt, from the middle of the furnace of iron:
8:52
That your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the
supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them in all that they call for
to you.
8:53
For you did separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be your
inheritance, as you spoke by the hand of Moses your servant, when you brought
our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD God.
8:54
And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and
supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from
kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
8:55
And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice,
saying,
8:56
Blessed be the LORD, that has given rest to his people Israel, according to all
that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which
he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
8:57
The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us,
nor forsake us:
8:58
That he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our
fathers.
8:59
And let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be
near to 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:
8:60
That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there
is none else.
8:61
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.
8:62
And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.
8:63
And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to 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.
8:64
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 brazen altar that was before the
LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the
fat of the peace offerings.
8:65
And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great
congregation, from the entering in of Hamath to the river of Egypt, before the
LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
8:66
On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went
to 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.
9:1
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,
9:2
That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at
Gibeon.
9:3
And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that
you have made before me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to
put my name there for ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
9:4
And if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of
heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and
will keep my statutes and my judgments:
9:5
Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom on Israel for ever, as I
promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man on the
throne of Israel.
9:6
But if you shall at all turn from following me, you 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:
9:7
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:
9:8
And at this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall be
astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to
this land, and to this house?
9:9
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 on other gods,
and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore has the LORD brought on
them all this evil.
9:10
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,
9:11
(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.
9:12
And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and
they pleased him not.
9:13
And he said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? And he
called them the land of Cabul to this day.
9:14
And Hiram sent to the king six score talents of gold.
9:15
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.
9:16
For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire,
and slain the Canaanites that dwelled in the city, and given it for a present to
his daughter, Solomon's wife.
9:17
And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
9:18
And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
9:19
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.
9:20
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites,
and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
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Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of
Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, on those did Solomon levy a
tribute of slavery to this day.
9:22
But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no slaves: but they were men of
war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his
chariots, and his horsemen.
9:23
These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred
and fifty, which bore rule over the people that worked in the work.
9:24
But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which
Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
9:25
And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings
on the altar which he built to the LORD, and he burnt incense on the altar that
was before the LORD. So he finished the house.
9:26
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.
9:27
And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea,
with the servants of Solomon.
9:28
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty
talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
10:1
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.
10:2
And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore 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.
10:3
And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the
king, which he told her not.
10:4
And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he
had built,
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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 to the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
10:6
And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of
your acts and of your wisdom.
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However, I believed not the words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it: and,
behold, the half was not told me: your wisdom and prosperity exceeds the fame
which I heard.
10:8
Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, which stand continually
before you, and that hear your wisdom.
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Blessed be the LORD your God, which delighted in you, to set you on the throne
of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he you king,
to do judgment and justice.
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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.
10:11
And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir
great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
10:12
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 to this day.
10:13
And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever 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.
10:14
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred three
score and six talents of gold,
10:15
Beside that he had of the merchants, and of the traffic of the spice merchants,
and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
10:16
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of
gold went to one target.
10:17
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.
10:18
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best
gold.
10:19
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.
10:20
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps:
there was not the like made in any kingdom.
10:21
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.
10:22
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.
10:23
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
10:24
And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in
his heart.
10:25
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold,
and garments, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
10:26
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.
10:27
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.
10:28
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's
merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
10:29
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.
11:1
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of
Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
11:2
Of the nations concerning which the LORD said to the children of Israel, You
shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in to you: for surely they will
turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon joined to these in love.
11:3
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and
his wives turned away his heart.
11:4
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.
11:5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom
the abomination of the Ammonites.
11:6
And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the
LORD, as did David his father.
11:7
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.
11:8
And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and
sacrificed to their gods.
11:9
And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD
God of Israel, which had appeared to him twice,
11:10
And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other
gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
11:11
Why the LORD said to Solomon, For as much as this is done of you, and you have
not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely
rend the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
11:12
Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it for David your father's sake: but
I will rend it out of the hand of your son.
11:13
However, I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to your
son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
11:14
And the LORD stirred up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of
the king's seed in Edom.
11:15
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;
11:16
(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off
every male in Edom:)