The First Book of Kings, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} King Solomon was king over all Israel. {4:2} These were the
princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; {4:3}
Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son
of Ahilud, the recorder; {4:4} and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was
over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; {4:5} and Azariah
the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan
was chief minister, [and] the king's friend; {4:6} and Ahishar was
over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men
subject to forced labor. {4:7} Solomon had twelve officers over all
Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had
to make provision for a month in the year. {4:8} These are their
names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; {4:9} Ben Deker, in
Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan; {4:10}
Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him [pertained] Socoh, and all the land of
Hepher); {4:11} Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath
the daughter of Solomon as wife); {4:12} Baana the son of Ahilud, in
Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan,
beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond
Jokmeam; {4:13} Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him [pertained] the
towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him
[pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great
cities with walls and bronze bars); {4:14} Ahinadab the son of Iddo,
in Mahanaim; {4:15} Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the
daughter of Solomon as wife); {4:16} Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher
and Bealoth; {4:17} Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; {4:18}
Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; {4:19} Geber the son of Uri, in
the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of
Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer who was in the land.
{4:20} Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in
multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. {4:21} Solomon ruled
over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines,
and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon
all the days of his life. {4:22} Solomon's provision for one day was
thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, {4:23} ten
head of fat cattle, and twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and
one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and
fattened fowl. {4:24} 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 around him. {4:25}
Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his
fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. {4:26}
Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen. {4:27} Those officers provided food for king
Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in
his month; they let nothing be lacking. {4:28} Barley also and straw
for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where [the
officers] were, every man according to his duty. {4:29} God gave
Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great
understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore. {4:30}
Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east,
and all the wisdom of Egypt. {4:31} 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 all around. {4:32} He spoke
three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five. {4:33}
He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the
hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of
birds, and of creeping things, and of fish. {4:34} There came of all
peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth,
who had heard of his wisdom.
{5:1} 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. {5:2} Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
{5:3} "You know how that David my father could not build a house for
the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every
side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet. {5:4} But now
Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither
adversary, nor evil occurrence. {5:5} Behold, I purpose to build a
house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my
father, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your
room, he shall build the house for my name.' {5:6} Now therefore
command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall
be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants
according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not
among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."
{5:7} It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he
rejoiced greatly, and said, "Blessed is Yahweh this day, who has given
to David a wise son over this great people." {5:8} Hiram sent to
Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you have sent to me.
I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning
timber of fir. {5:9} My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to
the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that
you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and
you shall receive them. You shall accomplish my desire, in giving food
for my household."
{5:10} So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir
according to all his desire. {5:11} Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand
measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of
pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year. {5:12} Yahweh gave
Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram
and Solomon; and they two made a league together. {5:13} King Solomon
raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
{5:14} 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 men subject to forced labor. {5:15} Solomon had seventy
thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters
in the mountains; {5:16} besides Solomon's chief officers who were
over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over
the people who labored in the work. {5:17} The king commanded, and
they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the
house with worked stone. {5:18} Solomon's builders and Hiram's
builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber
and the stones to build the house.
{6:1} It happened 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 Yahweh. {6:2} The
house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty
cubits, and its breadth twenty [cubits], and its height thirty cubits.
{6:3} The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its
length, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was
its breadth before the house. {6:4} For the house he made windows of
fixed lattice work. {6:5} Against the wall of the house he built
stories all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of
the temple and of the oracle; and he made side chambers all around.
{6:6} The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was
six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the
outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house all around, that
[the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house. {6:7} 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. {6:8} The door for the
middle side chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went
up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle
into the third. {6:9} So he built the house, and finished it; and he
covered the house with beams and planks of cedar. {6:10} He built the
stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested
on the house with timber of cedar.
{6:11} The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying, {6:12}
"Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my
statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to
walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to
David your father. {6:13} 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} He built
the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of
the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside
with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
{6:16} He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with
boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built
[them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
{6:17} The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty
cubits [long]. {6:18} There was cedar on the house within, carved with
buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. {6:19}
He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there
the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. {6:20} Within the oracle was [a
space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and
twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he
covered the altar with cedar. {6:21} So Solomon overlaid the house
within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the
oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. {6:22} The whole house he
overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole
altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold. {6:23} In the
oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
{6:24} 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} The other
cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one
form. {6:26} The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was
it of the other cherub. {6:27} 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. {6:28} He overlaid the cherubim with gold. {6:29}
He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of
cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside. {6:30}
The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.
{6:31} For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the
lintel [and] door posts were a fifth part [of the wall]. {6:32} So [he
made] two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of
cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold;
and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees. {6:33}
So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive
wood, out of a fourth part [of the wall]; {6:34} and two doors of fir
wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves
of the other door were folding. {6:35} He carved [thereon] cherubim
and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted
on the engraved work. {6:36} He built the inner court with three
courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams. {6:37} In the
fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, in the
month Ziv. {6:38} In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the
eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and
according to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it.
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