The First Book Melakhim, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} King Shlomo was king over all Yisra'el. {4:2} These were the
princes whom he had: `Azaryah the son of Tzadok, the [1>]Kohen[<1];
{4:3} Elichoref and Achiyah, the sons of Shisha, [2>]Sofrim[<2];
Yehoshafat the son of Achilud, the recorder; {4:4} and Benayah the son
of Yehoiada was over the host; and Tzadok and Avyatar were
[3>]Kohanim[<3]; {4:5} and `Azaryah the son of Natan was over the
officers; and Zavud the son of Natan was chief minister, [and] the
king's friend; {4:6} and Achishar was over the household; and Adoniram
the son of `Avda was over the men subject to forced labor. {4:7}
Shlomo had twelve officers over all Yisra'el, who provided victuals
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 Efrayim; {4:9} Ben-Deker, in Makatz, and in Sha`alvim,
and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-Beit-Hanan; {4:10} Ben-Hesed, in Arubbot
(to him [pertained] Sokho, and all the land of Hefer); {4:11}
Ben-Avinadav, in all the height of Dor (he had Tafat the daughter of
Shlomo as wife); {4:12} Ba`anah the son of Achilud, in Ta`nakh and
Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Tzaretan, beneath
Yizre`el, from Beth-shean to Avel-Mecholah, as far as beyond Yokme`am;
{4:13} Ben-Gever, in Ramot-Gil`ad (to him [pertained] the towns of
Ya'ir the son of Menashsheh, which are in Gil`ad; [even] to him
[pertained] the region of Argov, which is in Bashan, sixty great
cities with walls and brazen bars); {4:14} Achinadav the son of `Iddo,
in Machanayim; {4:15} Achima`atz, in Naftali (he also took Basemat the
daughter of Shlomo as wife); {4:16} Ba`anah the son of Hushai, in
Asher and Be`alot; {4:17} Yehoshafat the son of Paru'ach, in
Yissakhar; {4:18} Shim`i the son of Ela, in Binyamin; {4:19} Gever the
son of Uri, in the land of Gil`ad, the country of Sichon king of the
Amori and of `Og king of Bashan; and [he was] the only officer who was
in the land. {4:20} Yehudah and Yisra'el were many as the sand which
is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
{4:21} Shlomo ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land
of the Pelishtim, and to the border of Mitzrayim: they brought
tribute, and served Shlomo all the days of his life. {4:22} Shlomo's
provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty
measures of meal, {4:23} ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen 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 Tifsach even to `Aza, over all
the kings on this side the River: and he had shalom on all sides round
about him. {4:25} Yehudah and Yisra'el lived safely, every man under
his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Be'er-Sheva, all the
days of Shlomo. {4:26} Shlomo had forty thousand stalls of horses for
his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. {4:27} Those officers
provided victuals for king Shlomo, and for all who came to king
Shlomo'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 charge. {4:29} God gave Shlomo wisdom and understanding exceeding
much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the
sea-shore. {4:30} Shlomo's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the
children of the east, and all the wisdom of Mitzrayim. {4:31} For he
was wiser than all men; than Etan the Ezrachite, and Heman, and
Kalkol, and Darda, the sons of Machol: and his fame was in all the
nations round about. {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 Levanon 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 Shlomo,
from all kings of the [4>]eretz[<4], who had heard of his wisdom.
{5:1} Hiram king of Tzor sent his servants to Shlomo; 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} Shlomo 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 room, he shall build the house for my name. {5:6} Now therefore
command you that they cut me cedar trees out of Levanon; and my
servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you hire 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
Tzidonim. {5:7} It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Shlomo,
that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, who
has given to David a wise son over this great people. {5:8} Hiram sent
to Shlomo, 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
Levanon to the sea; and 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; and you shall accomplish my
desire, in giving food for my household. {5:10} So Hiram gave Shlomo
timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire. {5:11}
Shlomo gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his
household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Shlomo to Hiram
year by year. {5:12} The LORD gave Shlomo wisdom, as he promised him;
and there was shalom between Hiram and Shlomo; and they two made a
league together. {5:13} King Shlomo raised a levy out of all Yisra'el;
and the levy was thirty thousand men. {5:14} He sent them to Levanon,
ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Levanon, and two
months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.
{5:15} Shlomo had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty
thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains; {5:16} besides
Shlomo'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 hewed out great stones, costly
stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone. {5:18}
Shlomo's builders and Hiram's builders and the Givli 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 Yisra'el were come out of the land of Mitzrayim, in the
fourth year of Shlomo's reign over Yisra'el, 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 Shlomo built for the LORD, the length of it
was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the
height of it thirty cubits. {6:3} The porch before the temple of the
house, twenty cubits was the length of it, according to the breadth of
the house; [and] ten cubits was the breadth of it 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 round about, against
the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the
oracle; and he made side-chambers round about. {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 round about, 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 the LORD came to Shlomo, 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 [1>]mitzvot[<1]
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
Yisra'el, and will not forsake my people Yisra'el. {6:14} So Shlomo
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 the LORD. {6:20} Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty
cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in
the height of it; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered
the altar with cedar. {6:21} So Shlomo 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
Keruvim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high. {6:24} Five cubits was
the one wing of the Keruv, and five cubits the other wing of the
Keruv: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part
of the other were ten cubits. {6:25} The other Keruv was ten cubits:
both the Keruvim were of one measure and one form. {6:26} The height
of the one Keruv was ten cubits, and so was it of the other Keruv.
{6:27} He set the Keruvim within the inner house; and the wings of the
Keruvim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the
one wall, and the wing of the other Keruv touched the other wall; and
their wings touched one another in the midst of the house. {6:28} He
overlaid the Keruvim with gold. {6:29} He carved all the walls of the
house round about with carved figures of Keruvim 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 Keruvim and palm trees and open
flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the
Keruvim, 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] Keruvim 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 hewn 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 the parts of it, and according to all
the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
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Footnotes:
[1] {4:2} priest
[2] {4:3} scribes
[3] {4:4} priests
[4] {4:34} earth
[1] {6:12} commandments
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