June
30
1
Kings 7-9
1Ki
7:1 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he
finished all his house.
1Ki
7:2 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was
one hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height
thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the
pillars.
1Ki
7:3 It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that
were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.
1Ki
7:4 There were beams in three rows, and window was over against
window in three ranks.
1Ki
7:5 All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window
was over against window in three ranks.
1Ki
7:6 He made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and
its breadth thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a
threshold before them.
1Ki
7:7 He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the
porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
1Ki
7:8 His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the
porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's
daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.
1Ki
7:9 All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to
measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the
foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
1Ki
7:10 The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones
of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
1Ki
7:11 Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure,
and cedar wood.
1Ki
7:12 The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a
course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of
Yahweh, and the porch of the house.
1Ki
7:13 King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
1Ki
7:14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his
father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with
wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He
came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
1Ki
7:15 For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high
apiece: and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about.
1Ki
7:16 He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the tops of the
pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the
height of the other capital was five cubits.
1Ki
7:17 There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for
the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one
capital, and seven for the other capital.
1Ki
7:18 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows around on the
one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the
pillars: and so did he for the other capital.
1Ki
7:19 The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch
were of lily work, four cubits.
1Ki
7:20 There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the
belly which was beside the network: and the pomegranates were two
hundred, in rows around on the other capital.
1Ki
7:21 He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: and he set up
the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left
pillar, and called its name Boaz.
1Ki
7:22 On the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the
pillars finished.
1Ki
7:23 He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round
in compass, and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty
cubits encircled it.
1Ki
7:24 Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it, for
ten cubits, encircling the sea: the buds were in two rows, cast when
it was cast.
1Ki
7:25 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and
three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south,
and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above,
and all their hinder parts were inward.
1Ki
7:26 It was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the
brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
1Ki
7:27 He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of
one base, and four cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height.
1Ki
7:28 The work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and
there were panels between the ledges;
1Ki
7:29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions,
oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and
beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
1Ki
7:30 Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of brass; and the
four feet of it had supports: beneath the basin were the supports
molten, with wreaths at the side of each.
1Ki
7:31 The mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and
its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half;
and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were
foursquare, not round.
1Ki
7:32 The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of
the wheels were in the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit
and half a cubit.
1Ki
7:33 The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel:
their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves, were
all molten.
1Ki
7:34 There were four supports at the four corners of each base: its
supports were of the base itself.
1Ki
7:35 In the top of the base was there a round compass half a cubit
high; and on the top of the base its stays and its panels were of the
same.
1Ki
7:36 On the plates of its stays, and on its panels, he engraved
cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with
wreaths all around.
1Ki
7:37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one
casting, one measure, and one form.
1Ki
7:38 He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths;
and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases
one basin.
1Ki
7:39 He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five
on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side
of the house eastward, toward the south.
1Ki
7:40 Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So
Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he worked for king
Solomon in the house of Yahweh:
1Ki
7:41 the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on
the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls
of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
1Ki
7:42 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two
rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the
capitals that were on the pillars;
1Ki
7:43 and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases;
1Ki
7:44 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
1Ki
7:45 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these
vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Yahweh,
were of burnished brass.
1Ki
7:46 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay
ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
1Ki
7:47 Solomon left all the vessels unweighed,
because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not
be found out.
1Ki
7:48 Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh:
the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show bread was, of
gold;
1Ki
7:49 and the lampstands, five on the right side, and five on the
left, before the oracle, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the
lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
1Ki
7:50 and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons,
and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors
of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the
house, to wit,
of the temple, of gold.
1Ki
7:51 Thus all the work that king Solomon worked in the house of
Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his
father had dedicated, even
the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the
treasuries of the house of Yahweh.
1Ki
8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads
of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses
of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up
the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is
Zion.
1Ki
8:2 All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at
the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
1Ki
8:3 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
1Ki
8:4 They brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the Tent of Meeting, and
all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the
priests and the Levites bring up.
1Ki
8:5 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were
assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and
cattle, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.
1Ki
8:6 The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its
place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even
under the wings of the cherubim.
1Ki
8:7 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the
ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
1Ki
8:8 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from
the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and
there they are to this day.
1Ki
8:9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which
Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the
children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1Ki
8:10 It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy
place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,
1Ki
8:11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of
the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh.
1Ki
8:12 Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the
thick darkness.
1Ki
8:13 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you
to dwell in forever.
1Ki
8:14 The king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of
Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.
1Ki
8:15 He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with
his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it,
saying,
1Ki
8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of
Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a
house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my
people Israel.
1Ki
8:17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for
the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
1Ki
8:18 But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your
heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your
heart:
1Ki
8:19 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who
shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my
name.
1Ki
8:20 Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I am risen
up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel,
as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh,
the God of Israel.
1Ki
8:21 There have I set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant
of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out
of the land of Egypt.
1Ki
8:22 Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all
the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;
1Ki
8:23 and he said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like
you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keep covenant and
loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all
their heart;
1Ki
8:24 who have kept with your servant David my father that which you
did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled
it with your hand, as it is this day.
1Ki
8:25 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your
servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying,
There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of
Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before
me as you have walked before me.
1Ki
8:26 Now therefore, God of Israel, Please let your word be verified,
which you spoke to your servant David my father.
1Ki
8:27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven
and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house
that I have built!
1Ki
8:28 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his
supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer
which your servant prays before you this day;
1Ki
8:29 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day,
even toward the place of which you have said, My name shall be there;
to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this
place.
1Ki
8:30 Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people
Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear in heaven,
your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
1Ki
8:31 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him
to cause him to swear, and he come and
swear before your altar in this house;
1Ki
8:32 then hear in heaven, and do, and judge your servants,
condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and
justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
1Ki
8:33 When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy,
because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and
confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this
house:
1Ki
8:34 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel,
and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
1Ki
8:35 When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess
your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:
1Ki
8:36 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and
of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they
should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your
people for an inheritance.
1Ki
8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if
there is blight or
mildew, locust or
caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities;
whatever plague, whatever sickness there be;
1Ki
8:38 whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or
by all your people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his
own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
1Ki
8:39 then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do,
and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you
know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children
of men;)
1Ki
8:40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land
which you gave to our fathers.
1Ki
8:41 Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people
Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake
1Ki
8:42 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty
hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray
toward this house;
1Ki
8:43 hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all
that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the
earth may know your name, to fear you, as does your people Israel,
and that they may know that this house which I have built is called
by my name.
1Ki
8:44 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by
whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the
city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built
for your name;
1Ki
8:45 then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and
maintain their cause.
1Ki
8:46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin),
and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that
they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or
near;
1Ki
8:47 yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are
carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the
land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and
have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;
1Ki
8:48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their
soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray
to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city
which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your
name:
1Ki
8:49 then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your
dwelling place, and maintain their cause;
1Ki
8:50 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all
their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and
give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they
may have compassion on them
1Ki
8:51 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you
brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);
1Ki
8:52 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant,
and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them
whenever they cry to you.
1Ki
8:53 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth,
to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you
brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.
1Ki
8:54 It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all
this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the
altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread
forth toward heaven.
1Ki
8:55 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud
voice, saying,
1Ki
8:56 Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel,
according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of
all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
1Ki
8:57 Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him
not leave us, nor forsake us;
1Ki
8:58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways,
and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances,
which he commanded our fathers.
1Ki
8:59 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before
Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he maintain the
cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every
day shall require;
1Ki
8:60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is
God; there is none else.
1Ki
8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to
walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
1Ki
8:62 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before
Yahweh.
1Ki
8:63 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he
offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand head of cattle, and one
hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of
Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh.
1Ki
8:64 The same day did the king make the middle of the court holy
that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt
offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings,
because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to
receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the
peace offerings.
1Ki
8:65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with
him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of
Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, even
fourteen days.
1Ki
8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the
king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the
goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel
his people.
1Ki
9:1 It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house
of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he
was pleased to do,
1Ki
9:2 that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had
appeared to him at Gibeon.
1Ki
9:3 Yahweh said to him, I have heard your prayer and your
supplication, that you have made before me: I have made this house
holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes
and my heart shall be there perpetually.
1Ki
9:4 As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father
walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to
all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my
ordinances;
1Ki
9:5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel
forever, according as I promised to David your father, saying, There
shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
1Ki
9:6 But if you shall turn away from following me, you or your
children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have
set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
1Ki
9:7 then will I cut off Israel out of the 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 Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all
peoples.
1Ki
9:8 Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by
it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yahweh
done thus to this land, and to this house?
1Ki
9:9 and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God,
who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid
hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore
has Yahweh brought all this evil on them.
1Ki
9:10 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had
built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house
1Ki
9:11 (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar
trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire),
that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of
Galilee.
1Ki
9:12 Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had
given him; and they didn't please him.
1Ki
9:13 He said, What cities are these which you have given me, my
brother? He called them the land of Cabul to this day.
1Ki
9:14 Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
1Ki
9:15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to
build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall
of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
1Ki
9:16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt
it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and
given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
1Ki
9:17 Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,
1Ki
9:18 and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
1Ki
9:19 and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for
his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon
desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and
in all the land of his dominion.
1Ki
9:20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the
Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were
not of the children of Israel;
1Ki
9:21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the
children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did
Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.
1Ki
9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants;
but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and
his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
1Ki
9:23 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work,
five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the
work.
1Ki
9:24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her
house which Solomon
had built for her: then did he build Millo.
1Ki
9:25 Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace
offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense
therewith, on the altar
that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
1Ki
9:26 King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is
beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
1Ki
9:27 Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge
of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
1Ki
9:28 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred
and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
