The Second Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came
down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices;
and the glory of Yahweh filled the house. {7:2} The priests could not
enter into the house of Yahweh, because the glory of Yahweh filled
Yahweh's house. {7:3} All the children of Israel looked on, when the
fire came down, and the glory of Yahweh was on the house; and they
bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and
worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, [saying], For he is good; for
his loving kindness endures for ever. {7:4} Then the king and all the
people offered sacrifice before Yahweh. {7:5} King Solomon offered a
sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty
thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of
God. {7:6} The priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites
also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had
made to give thanks to Yahweh, (for his loving kindness endures for
ever), when David praised by their ministry: and the priests sounded
trumpets before them; and all Israel stood. {7:7} Moreover Solomon
made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh;
for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace
offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not
able to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the
fat. {7:8} So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all
Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to
the brook of Egypt. {7:9} On the eighth day they held a solemn
assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and
the feast seven days. {7:10} On the three and twentieth day of the
seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad
of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to
Solomon, and to Israel his people. {7:11} Thus Solomon finished the
house of Yahweh, and the king's house: and he successfully completed
all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Yahweh, and
in his own house. {7:12} Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said
to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself
for a house of sacrifice. {7:13} If I shut up the sky so that there is
no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send
pestilence among my people; {7:14} if my people, who are called by my
name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn
from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin, and will heal their land. {7:15} Now my eyes shall be open,
and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
{7:16} For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name
may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there
perpetually. {7:17} As for you, if you will walk before me as David
your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you,
and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; {7:18} then I will
establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with
David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to be ruler
in Israel. {7:19} But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my
commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other
gods, and worship them; {7:20} then will I pluck them up by the roots
out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have
made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it
a proverb and a byword among all peoples. {7:21} This house, which is
so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say,
Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house? {7:22} They
shall answer, Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers,
who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on
other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he
brought all this evil on them.
{8:1} It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had
built the house of Yahweh, and his own house, {8:2} that the cities
which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the
children of Israel to dwell there. {8:3} Solomon went to Hamath Zobah,
and prevailed against it. {8:4} He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and
all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath. {8:5} Also he built
Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with
walls, gates, and bars; {8:6} and Baalath, and all the storage cities
that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities
for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his
pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his
dominion. {8:7} As for all the people who were left of the Hittites,
and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, who were not of Israel; {8:8} of their children who were
left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn't
consume, of them did Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.
{8:9} But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for
his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and
rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. {8:10} These were the
chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over
the people. {8:11} Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of
the city of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said,
My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because
the places where the ark of Yahweh has come are holy. {8:12} Then
Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh,
which he had built before the porch, {8:13} even as the duty of every
day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the
Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times in
the year, [even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of
weeks, and in the feast of tents. {8:14} He appointed, according to
the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to
their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to
minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the
doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate: for so had David
the man of God commanded. {8:15} They didn't depart from the
commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any
matter, or concerning the treasures. {8:16} Now all the work of
Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of
Yahweh, and until it was finished. [So] the house of Yahweh was
completed. {8:17} Then went Solomon to Ezion Geber, and to Eloth, on
the seashore in the land of Edom. {8:18} Huram sent him ships and
servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants;
and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from
there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king
Solomon.
{9:1} When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she
came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very
great train, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and
precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him
of all that was in her heart. {9:2} Solomon told her all her
questions; and there was not anything hid from Solomon which he didn't
tell her. {9:3} When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of
Solomon, and the house that he had built, {9:4} and the food of his
table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his
ministers, and their clothing, his cup bearers also, and their
clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahweh;
there was no more spirit in her. {9:5} She said to the king, It was a
true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your
wisdom. {9:6} However I didn't believe their words, until I came, and
my eyes had seen it; and behold, the half of the greatness of your
wisdom was not told me: you exceed the fame that I heard. {9:7} Happy
are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually
before you, and hear your wisdom. {9:8} Blessed be Yahweh your God,
who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh
your God: because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever,
therefore made he you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.
{9:9} She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and
spices in great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any
such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. {9:10} The
servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold
from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones. {9:11} The king
made of the algum trees terraces for the house of Yahweh, and for the
king's house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers: and
there were none like these seen before in the land of Judah. {9:12}
King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she
asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. So she turned,
and went to her own land, she and her servants. {9:13} Now the weight
of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six
talents of gold, {9:14} besides that which the traders and merchants
brought: and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country
brought gold and silver to Solomon. {9:15} King Solomon made two
hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold
went to one buckler. {9:16} [he made] three hundred shields of beaten
gold; three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield: and the king
put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. {9:17} Moreover the
king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
{9:18} And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of
gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on either side by
the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays. {9:19}
Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six
steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom. {9:20} 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: silver was nothing
accounted of in the days of Solomon. {9:21} For the king had ships
that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three
years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory,
and apes, and peacocks. {9:22} So king Solomon exceeded all the kings
of the earth in riches and wisdom. {9:23} All the kings of the earth
sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put
in his heart. {9:24} They brought every man his tribute, vessels of
silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, armor, and spices, horses,
and mules, a rate year by year. {9:25} Solomon had four thousand
stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he
stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
{9:26} He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of
the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. {9:27} The king made
silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as the
sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance. {9:28} They
brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt, and out of all lands. {9:29}
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren't they
written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of
Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning
Jeroboam the son of Nebat? {9:30} Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over
all Israel forty years. {9:31} Solomon slept with his fathers, and he
was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son
reigned in his place.
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