The Second Book of Divre Hayamim, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} Now when Shlomo had made an end of praying, the fire came
down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices;
and the glory of the LORD filled the house. {7:2} The [1>]Kohanim[<1]
could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the
LORD filled the LORD's house. {7:3} All the children of Yisra'el
looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD was on
the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on
the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to the LORD, [saying],
For he is good; for his lovingkindness endures for ever. {7:4} Then
the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD. {7:5}
King Shlomo 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 [2>]Kohanim[<2] stood, according
to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of the
LORD, which David the king had made to give thanks to the LORD, (for
his lovingkindness endures for ever,) when David praised by their
ministry: and the [3>]Kohanim[<3] sounded trumpets before them; and
all Yisra'el stood. {7:7} Moreover Shlomo made the middle of the court
holy that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the
burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the
brazen altar which Shlomo had made was not able to receive the burnt
offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat. {7:8} So Shlomo held the
feast at that time seven days, and all Yisra'el with him, a very great
assembly, from the entrance of Hamat to the brook of Mitzrayim. {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
the LORD had shown to David, and to Shlomo, and to Yisra'el his
people. {7:11} Thus Shlomo finished the house of the LORD, and the
king's house: and all that came into Shlomo's heart to make in the
house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
{7:12} The LORD appeared to Shlomo 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 [4>]arbeh[<4] 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 Yisra'el. {7:19} But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and
my [5>]mitzvot[<5] 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 the LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?
{7:22} They shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD, the God of
their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Mitzrayim,
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 Shlomo had
built the house of the LORD, and his own house, {8:2} that the cities
which Huram had given to Shlomo, Shlomo built them, and caused the
children of Yisra'el to dwell there. {8:3} Shlomo went to
Hamat-Tzovah, and prevailed against it. {8:4} He built Tadmor in the
wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamat. {8:5}
Also he built Beit-Horon the upper, and Beit-Horon the lower,
fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars; {8:6} and Ba`alat, and
all the store-cities that Shlomo had, and all the cities for his
chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Shlomo desired
to build for his pleasure in Yerushalayim, and in Levanon, and in all
the land of his dominion. {8:7} As for all the people who were left of
the Hitti, and the Amori, and the Perizzi, and the Hivvi, and the
Yevusi, who were not of Yisra'el; {8:8} of their children who were
left after them in the land, whom the children of Yisra'el didn't
consume, of them did Shlomo raise a levy [of bondservants] to this
day. {8:9} But of the children of Yisra'el did Shlomo 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 Shlomo, even two hundred fifty, who ruled over
the people. {8:11} Shlomo brought up the daughter of Par`oh 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 Yisra'el, because
the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD has come. {8:12}
Then Shlomo offered burnt-offerings to the LORD on the altar of the
LORD, which he had built before the porch, {8:13} even as the duty of
every day required, offering according to the [1>]mitzvah[<1] of
Moshe, on the Shabbatot, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts,
three times in the year, [even] in the feast of [2>]matzah[<2], and in
the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. {8:14} He appointed,
according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the
[3>]Kohanim[<3] to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to
praise, and to minister before the [4>]Kohanim[<4], as the duty of
every day required; the doorkeepers also by their courses at every
gate: for so had David the man of God commanded. {8:15} They didn't
depart from the [5>]mitzvah[<5] of the king to the [6>]Kohanim[<6] and
Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures. {8:16} Now
all the work of Shlomo was prepared to the day of the foundation of
the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. [So] the house of
the LORD was completed. {8:17} Then went Shlomo to `Etzyon-Gever, and
to Elot, on the seashore in the land of Edom. {8:18} Huram sent him by
the hands of his servants ships, and servants who had knowledge of the
sea; and they came with the servants of Shlomo to Ofir, and fetched
from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to
king Shlomo.
{9:1} When the queen of Sheva heard of the fame of Shlomo, she came
to prove Shlomo with hard questions at Yerushalayim, with a very great
train, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and
precious stones: and when she was come to Shlomo, she talked with him
of all that was in her heart. {9:2} Shlomo told her all her questions;
and there was not anything hid from Shlomo which he didn't tell her.
{9:3} When the queen of Sheva had seen the wisdom of Shlomo, 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 the LORD; 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 the LORD your God, who delighted in you,
to set you on his throne, to be king for the LORD your God: because
your God loved Yisra'el, 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 Sheva gave to king Shlomo. {9:10} The servants also of
Huram, and the servants of Shlomo, who brought gold from Ofir, brought
algum trees and precious stones. {9:11} The king made of the algum
trees terraces for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house,
and lyres and psalteries for the singers: and there were none such
seen before in the land of Yehudah. {9:12} King Shlomo gave to the
queen of Sheva 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
Shlomo 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 `Arav and the governors of the country brought gold and
silver to Shlomo. {9:15} King Shlomo 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 Levanon. {9:17} Moreover the king made a great
throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. {9:18} nd 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 Shlomo's drinking vessels
were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of
Levanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days
of Shlomo. {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 Shlomo exceeded all the kings of the [1>]eretz[<1] in
riches and wisdom. {9:23} All the kings of the [2>]eretz[<2] sought
the presence of Shlomo, 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} Shlomo had four thousand stalls for
horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in
the chariot cities, and with the king at Yerushalayim. {9:26} He ruled
over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Pelishtim,
and to the border of Mitzrayim. {9:27} The king made silver to be in
Yerushalayim as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees
that are in the lowland, for abundance. {9:28} They brought horses for
Shlomo out of Mitzrayim, and out of all lands. {9:29} Now the rest of
the acts of Shlomo, first and last, aren't they written in the history
of Natan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Achiyah the Shiloni, and
in the visions of `Iddo the seer concerning Yarov`am the son of Nevat?
{9:30} Shlomo reigned in Yerushalayim over all Yisra'el forty years.
{9:31} Shlomo slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of
David his father: and Rechav`am his son reigned in his place.
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:2} priests
[2] {7:6} priests
[3] {7:6} priests
[4] {7:13} locust
[5] {7:19} commandments
[1] {8:13} commandment
[2] {8:13} unleavened bread
[3] {8:14} priests
[4] {8:14} priests
[5] {8:15} commandment
[6] {8:15} priests
[1] {9:22} earth
[2] {9:23} earth
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