The Second Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and
Yahweh his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. {1:2}
Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the
heads of the fathers' [houses]. {1:3} So Solomon, and all the assembly
with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the
tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Yahweh had made in
the wilderness. {1:4} But David had brought the ark of God up from
Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had
pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. {1:5} Moreover the bronze altar,
that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there
before the tent of Yahweh: and Solomon and the assembly were seeking
counsel there. {1:6} Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before
Yahweh, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered one thousand
burnt offerings on it. {1:7} In that night God appeared to Solomon,
and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you." {1:8} Solomon said to
God, You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have
made me king in his place. {1:9} Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to
David my father be established; for you have made me king over a
people like the dust of the earth in multitude. {1:10} Give me now
wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this
people; for who can judge this your people, that is so great? {1:11}
God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not
asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who hate you,
neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge
for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you
king: {1:12} wisdom and knowledge is granted to you; and I will give
you riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had
who have been before you; neither shall there any after you have the
like. {1:13} So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon,
from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over
Israel. {1:14} Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one
thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he
placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. {1:15}
The king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars
made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for
abundance. {1:16} The horses which Solomon had were brought out of
Egypt and from Kue; the king's merchants purchased them from Kue.
{1:17} They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six
hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so
for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they
bring them out by their means.
{2:1} Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh,
and a house for his kingdom. {2:2} Solomon counted out seventy
thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone
cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to
oversee them. {2:3} Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As
you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a
house in which to dwell, [even so deal with me]. {2:4} Behold, I am
about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it
to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the
continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening,
on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh
our God. This is [an ordinance] forever to Israel. {2:5} The house
which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods. {2:6} But
who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of
heavens can't contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a
house, save only to burn incense before him? {2:7} Now therefore send
me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in
iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to
engrave [all manner of] engravings, [to be] with the skillful men who
are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did
provide. {2:8} Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees,
out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber
in Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be with your servants, {2:9}
even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about
to build shall be great and wonderful. {2:10} Behold, I will give to
your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand measures of
beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty
thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil. {2:11} Then
Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon,
"Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them."
{2:12} Huram continued, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that
made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son,
endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house
for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom. {2:13} Now I have sent a
skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father's, {2:14}
the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man
of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron,
in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in
crimson, also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise any
device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful
men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father. {2:15}
Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my
lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants: {2:16} and we will
cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring
it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to
Jerusalem." {2:17} Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the
land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had
numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand
six hundred. {2:18} He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens,
and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three
thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
{3:1} Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem
on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he
made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing
floor of Ornan the Jebusite. {3:2} He began to build in the second
[day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. {3:3} Now
these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the
house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty
cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. {3:4} The porch that was before
[the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house,
was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid
it within with pure gold. {3:5} The greater house he made a ceiling
with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it
with palm trees and chains. {3:6} He garnished the house with precious
stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim. {3:7} He overlaid
also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls of it, and
the doors of it, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls. {3:8}
He made the most holy house: the length of it, according to the
breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty
cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred
talents. {3:9} The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He
overlaid the upper chambers with gold. {3:10} In the most holy house
he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.
{3:11} The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of
the one [cherub] was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house;
and the other wing was [likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of
the other cherub. {3:12} The wing of the other cherub was five cubits,
reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits
[also], joining to the wing of the other cherub. {3:13} The wings of
these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood
on their feet, and their faces were toward the house. {3:14} He made
the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and
ornamented it with cherubim. {3:15} Also he made before the house two
pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the
top of each of them was five cubits. {3:16} He made chains in the
oracle, and put [them] on the tops of the pillars; and he made one
hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. {3:17} He set up the
pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the
left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the
name of that on the left Boaz.
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