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, 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 belonged 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 belonged the towns of Jair the son of
Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him belonged 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 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 place 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 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. {5:4}
But now the LORD 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 the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to
David my father, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in
your place, 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 the LORD 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} The LORD
gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between
Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a treaty 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 cut 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 had 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 the LORD. {6:2} The
house which king Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty
cubits, and its breadth twenty, 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. 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 rooms 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 prepared 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
rooms 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 the LORD 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 ceiling: he built them for it
within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place. {6:17} In front
of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits. {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 the LORD.
{6:20} Within the oracle was 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
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 the LORD 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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