The Second Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and
[1>]the LORD[<1] his [2>]God[<2] 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' households. {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 the LORD 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 tabernacle of the LORD: and
Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there. {1:6} Solomon
went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, 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, LORD 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} Now give me 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. I will
give you riches, 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, they brought them out by their
means.
{2:1} Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of the
LORD, 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, so deal with me. {2:4} Behold, I am about to
build a house for the name of the LORD 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 the LORD our
God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
{2:5} "The house which I build is great; for our God is great above
all gods. {2:6} But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and
the heaven of heavens can't contain him? who am I then, that I should
build him a house, except just 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 engravings, to be with the skillful
men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father
provided.
{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 the LORD loves his people, he has made you
king over them." {2:12} Huram continued, "Blessed be the LORD, 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 the LORD, 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 kind 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 Eretz-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 the LORD at
Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David his
father, which he prepared 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 God's house. The length by cubits after the first measure
was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. {3:4} The porch that
was in front, its length, 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 its walls, and its
doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls. {3:8} He made
the most holy house: its length, according to the breadth of the
house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth 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 rooms 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 was
five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was
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, 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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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
[2] {1:1} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."
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