June
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Kings 4-6
1Ki
4:1 King Solomon was king over all Israel.
1Ki
4:2 These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok,
the priest;
1Ki
4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat
the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
1Ki
4:4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and
Abiathar were priests;
1Ki
4:5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud
the son of Nathan was chief minister, and
the king's friend;
1Ki
4:6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda
was over the men subject to forced labor.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
4:8 These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;
1Ki
4:9 Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon
Beth Hanan;
1Ki
4:10 Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to him pertained
Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);
1Ki
4:11 Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the
daughter of Solomon as wife);
1Ki
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;
1Ki
4:13 Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him pertained
the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; even
to him pertained
the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with
walls and bronze bars);
1Ki
4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
1Ki
4:15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of
Solomon as wife);
1Ki
4:16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
1Ki
4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
1Ki
4:18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
1Ki
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.
1Ki
4:20 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in
multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
4:22 Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine
flour, and sixty measures of meal,
1Ki
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.
1Ki
4:24 For he had dominion over all the
region 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.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
4:26 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots,
and twelve thousand horsemen.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
4:29 God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and
very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
1Ki
4:30 Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the
east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
4:32 He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one
thousand five.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
5:1 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had
heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for
Hiram was ever a lover of David.
1Ki
5:2 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
1Ki
5:3 You know how that David my father could not build a house for
the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every
side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet.
1Ki
5:4 But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side; there is
neither adversary, nor evil occurrence.
1Ki
5:5 Behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Yahweh my
God, as Yahweh 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.
1Ki
5:6 Now therefore command you that they cut me cedar trees out of
Lebanon; 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 Sidonians.
1Ki
5:7 It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he
rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be Yahweh this day, who has given
to David a wise son over this great people.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
5:9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon 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.
1Ki
5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir
according to all his desire.
1Ki
5:11 Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food
to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon
to Hiram year by year.
1Ki
5:12 Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was
peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
1Ki
5:13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was
thirty thousand men.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
5:15 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty
thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
1Ki
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.
1Ki
5:17 The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly
stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
1Ki
5:18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did
fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the
house.
1Ki
6:1 It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the
children of Israel were 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 Yahweh.
1Ki
6:2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was
sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits,
and its height thirty cubits.
1Ki
6:3 The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its
length, according to the breadth of the house; and
ten cubits was its breadth before the house.
1Ki
6:4 For the house he made windows of fixed lattice work.
1Ki
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 chambers all around.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
6:9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house
with beams and planks of cedar.
1Ki
6:10 He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits
high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
1Ki
6:11 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,
1Ki
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.
1Ki
6:13 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake
my people Israel.
1Ki
6:14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
6:17 The house, that is, the temple before the
oracle, was forty cubits long.
1Ki
6:18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open
flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
1Ki
6:19 He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set
there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
1Ki
6:20 Within the oracle was a space of
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.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
6:23 In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten
cubits high.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
6:25 The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one
measure and one form.
1Ki
6:26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of
the other cherub.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
6:28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
6:30 The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and
outside.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
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.
1Ki
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;
1Ki
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.
1Ki
6:35 He carved thereon
cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with
gold fitted on the engraved work.
1Ki
6:36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a
course of cedar beams.
1Ki
6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh
laid, in the month Ziv.
1Ki
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.