The First Book of Kings, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he
finished all his house. {7:2} For he built the house of the forest of
Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty
cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars,
with cedar beams on the pillars. {7:3} It was covered with cedar above
over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.
{7:4} There were beams in three rows, and window was over against
window in three ranks. {7:5} All the doors and posts were made square
with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks. {7:6}
He made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its
breadth thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a
threshold before them. {7:7} He made the porch of the throne where he
was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with
cedar from floor to floor. {7:8} His house where he was to dwell, the
other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a
house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like
this porch. {7:9} All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone,
according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from
the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great
court. {7:10} The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones,
stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. {7:11} Above were
costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
{7:12} The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a
course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh,
and the porch of the house. {7:13} King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram
out of Tyre. {7:14} He was the son of a widow 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 skill, to work all works
in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work. {7:15}
For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high
apiece: and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about.
{7:16} 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} There were 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} So he made the pillars; and there were two
rows around on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the
top of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital. {7:19} The
capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily
work, four cubits. {7:20} There were capitals above also on the two
pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network: and the
pomegranates were two hundred, in rows around on the other capital.
{7:21} He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: and he set up
the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left
pillar, and called its name Boaz. {7:22} On the top of the pillars was
lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished. {7:23} He made the
molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and its
height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.
{7:24} Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it, for
ten cubits, encircling the sea: the buds were in two rows, cast 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 on them
above, and all their hinder parts were inward. {7:26} It was a
handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup,
like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths. {7:27} He made
the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and
four cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height. {7:28} The work
of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were
panels between the ledges; {7:29} and on the panels that were between
the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was
a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of
hanging work. {7:30} Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of
brass; and the four feet of it had supports: beneath the basin were
the supports molten, with wreaths at the side of each. {7:31} The
mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and its mouth
was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also
on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were foursquare, not
round. {7:32} The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the
axles of the wheels were in the base: and the height of a wheel was a
cubit and half a cubit. {7:33} The work of the wheels was like the
work of a chariot wheel: their axles, and their rims, and their
spokes, and their naves, were all molten. {7:34} There were four
supports at the four corners of each base: its supports were of the
base itself. {7:35} In the top of the base was there a round compass
half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its stays and its panels
were of the same. {7:36} On the plates of its stays, and on its
panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the
space of each, with wreaths all around. {7:37} After this manner he
made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one
form. {7:38} He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty
baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten
bases one basin. {7:39} He set the bases, five 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, toward the south. {7:40}
Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made
an end of doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in the
house of Yahweh: {7:41} the two pillars, and the two bowls of the
capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to
cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the
pillars; {7:42} and the four hundred pomegranates for the two
networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two
bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars; {7:43} and the ten
bases, and the ten basins on the bases; {7:44} and the one sea, and
the twelve oxen under the sea; {7:45} and the pots, and the shovels,
and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king
Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass. {7:46} In
the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground
between Succoth and Zarethan. {7:47} Solomon left all the vessels
[unweighed], because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass
could not be found out. {7:48} Solomon made all the vessels that were
in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the
show bread was, of gold; {7:49} and the lampstands, five on the right
side, and five on the left, before the oracle, of pure gold; and the
flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; {7:50} and the cups,
and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire pans,
of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house,
the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, [to wit], of the
temple, of gold. {7:51} Thus all the work that king Solomon worked in
the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things which
David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, and the gold, and
the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.
{8:1} Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads
of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of
Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. {8:2} All
the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast,
in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. {8:3} All the elders
of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. {8:4} They brought up
the ark of Yahweh, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels
that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites
bring up. {8:5} King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who
were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep
and cattle, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.
{8:6} The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its
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 wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the
ark and its poles above. {8:8} The poles were so long that the ends of
the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they
were not seen outside: 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 Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel,
when they came out of the land of Egypt. {8:10} It came to pass, when
the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the
house of Yahweh, {8:11} so that the priests could not stand to
minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the
house of Yahweh. {8:12} Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he
would dwell in the thick darkness. {8:13} I have surely built you a
house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever."
{8:14} The king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly
of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood. {8:15} He said,
"Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to
David your 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 a house, that
my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.'
{8:17} "Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house
for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. {8:18} But Yahweh said to
David my father, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my
name, you did well that it was in your heart. {8:19} Nevertheless, you
shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of
your body, he shall build the house for my name.' {8:20} Yahweh has
established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place
of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh
promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of
Israel. {8:21} There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the
covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought
them out of the land of Egypt."
{8:22} Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of
all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;
{8:23} and he said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like
you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keep covenant and
loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their
heart; {8:24} who have kept with your servant David my father that
which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have
fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day. {8:25} Now therefore,
may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father
that which you have promised him, saying, 'There shall not fail you a
man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children
take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before
me.'
{8:26} "Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be
verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father. {8:27} But
will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the
heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I
have built! {8:28} Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant,
and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to
the prayer which your servant prays before you this 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;' to listen to
the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place. {8:30}
Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel,
when they shall pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your
dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
{8:31} "If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on
him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swear before your altar in
this house; {8:32} then hear in heaven, and do, and judge your
servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and
justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
{8:33} "When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy,
because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and
confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this
house: {8:34} then hear 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 the sky 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 in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your
people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should
walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people
for an inheritance.
{8:37} "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if
there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy
besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever
sickness there is; {8:38} whatever prayer and supplication is made by
any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague
of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: {8:39}
then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and
render to every man according to all 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 the foreigner, who is not of your people
Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake
{8:42} (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty
hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray
toward this house; {8:43} hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do
according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the
peoples 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 my name.
{8:44} "If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by
whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the
city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built
for your name; {8:45} then hear in heaven their prayer and their
supplication, and maintain their cause. {8:46} If they sin against you
(for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them,
and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to
the land of the enemy, far off or near; {8:47} yet if they shall
repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and
make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them
captive, saying, 'We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have
dealt wickedly;' {8:48} if they return to you with all their heart and
with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them
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 their prayer and their
supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;
{8:50} and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all
their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and
give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they
may have compassion on them {8:51} (for they are your people, and your
inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst 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 whenever they cry to you. {8:53} For you
separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your
inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our
fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh."
{8:54} It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all
this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar
of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth
toward heaven. {8:55} He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel
with a loud voice, saying, {8:56} "Blessed be Yahweh, who 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
Moses his servant. {8:57} May Yahweh 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 ordinances, which he
commanded our fathers. {8:59} Let these my words, with which I have
made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and
night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of
his people Israel, as every day shall require; {8:60} that all the
peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God. There is none
else.
{8:61} "Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to
walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day."
{8:62} The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before
Yahweh. {8:63} Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings,
which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand head of cattle,
and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the
children of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh. {8:64} The same day
did the king make the middle of the court holy that was before the
house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal
offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar
that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering,
and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings. {8:65} So
Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great
assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before
Yahweh 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 Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.
{9:1} It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the
house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which
he was pleased to do, {9:2} that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second
time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. {9:3} Yahweh said to him,
"I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made
before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put
my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there
perpetually. {9:4} As for you, 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 ordinances; {9:5} then I will establish the throne of your
kingdom over Israel forever, according 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 turn away from following me, you or your
children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have
set before you, but shall 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 made holy for my name, will I cast
out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all
peoples. {9:8} Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who
passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, 'Why
has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?' {9:9} and they
shall answer, 'Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought
forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other
gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has
brought all this evil on them.'"
{9:10} It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had
built the two houses, the house of Yahweh 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} Hiram
came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and
they didn't please him. {9:13} He said, "What cities are these which
you have given me, my brother?" He called them the land of Cabul to
this day. {9:14} Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of
gold.
{9:15} This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to
build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall
of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. {9:16} Pharaoh king
of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and
slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion
to his daughter, Solomon's wife. {9:17} Solomon built Gezer, and Beth
Horon the lower, {9:18} and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in
the land, {9:19} and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the
cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that
which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in
Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. {9:20} As for all the
people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites,
the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of
Israel; {9:21} their children who were left after them in the land,
whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them
did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day. {9:22} But of
the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were
the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains,
and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. {9:23} These were the
chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who
bore rule over the people who labored 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} Three
times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings on
the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, [on the
altar] that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house. {9:26} King
Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on
the shore of the [1>]Red Sea[<1], in the land of Edom. {9:27} Hiram
sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea,
with the servants of Solomon. {9:28} They came to Ophir, and fetched
from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to
king Solomon.
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Footnotes:
[1] {9:26} or, Sea of Reeds
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