whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about lis loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. 6Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar lead go down to the grave in peace. 7But show kindness unto the sons of BarziUai the Gileadite, and let them )e of those that eat at thy table; for so they drew nigh unto me when I FIRST KINGS fled from Absalom thy brother. 8And, behold, there is with thee Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Ba- hurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying: I will not put thee to death with the sword. 9Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for thou art a wise man; and thou wilt know what thou oughtest to do unto him, and thou shalt bring his hoar head down to the grave with blood.
10And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. uAnd the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jeru- salem. ^And Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established firmly.
^Then Adonijah the son of Hag- gith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said: 'Comest thou peaceably? ' And he said: ' Peace- ably/ 14He said moreover: 'I have somewhat to say unto thee.' Ajid she said: 'Say on.' 15And he said: 'Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set then- faces on me, that I should reign; how- beit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was his from the ^ LORD. 16And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not/ And she said unto him: 'Say on/ 17And he said: 'Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king — for he will not say thee nay — that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife/ 18And Bath-sheba said: 'Well; I will speak for thee unto the king/ 19Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed down unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand. 20Then she said. 'I ask one small petition of thee; deny me not/ And the king said unto her: 'Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny thee/ 21And she said: 'Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife/ ^And king Solo- mon answered and said unto his mother: 'And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Ado- nijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah/ ^Then king Solomon swore by the LORD, say- ing: 'God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life. 24Now therefore as the LORD liveth, who hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me a house, as He promised, surely Adonijah shall be put 'to death this day/ 25And king Solomon sent by the hand of Be- naiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him, so that he died.
26And unto Abiathar the priest said the king: ' Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art deserving of death; but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted/ 27So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that the word of the LORD might be fulfilled, which He spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
28And the tidings came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom.
FIRST KINGS A.nd Joab fled unto the Tent of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 29And it was told king Solomon: ' Joab is fled unto the Tent of the LORD, and, behold, he is by the altar.' Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying: 'Go, fall upon him/ 30And Benaiah came to the Tent of the LORD, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the king: Come forth.' And he said: 'Nay; but I will die here.' And Benaiah brought back word unto the king, saying: 'Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.' 31And the king said unto him: 'Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house. 32And the LORD will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew it not: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah. ^So shall their blood return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever; but unto David, and unto his seed, and unto his house, and unto his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.' ^Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. 85And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
36And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him: 'Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither. 37For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die; thy blood shall be upon thine own head/ 38And Shimei said unto the king: 'The saying is good; as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do.' And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
39And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying: 'Behold, thy servants are in Gath.' 40And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his serv- ants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath. ^And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come back. ^And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him: 'Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and forewarned thee, saying: Know for certain, that on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me: The say- ing is good; I have heard it. ^Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?/ ^The king said moreover to Shimei: 'Thou knowest all the wickedness which thy heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father; therefore the LORD shall return thy 'wickedness upon thine own head. ^But king Sol- omon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever ' ^So the king com- manded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell upon him, so that he died.
And the kingdom was established in O the hand of Solomon. xAnd Solomon became allied to Pharaoh king of Egypt by marriage, and took FIRST KINGS Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LOUD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. 20nly the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD unti] those days. 3And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father; only he sacrificed and of- fered in the high places.
4And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place; a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar. 5In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said: 'Ask what I shall give thee.' 6And Solomon said: 'Thou hast shown unto Thy servant David my father great kindness, according as he walked before Thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in upright- ness of heart with Thee; and Thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that Thou hast given ^ him a^son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 7And now, O LORD my God: Thou hast made Thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child; I know not how to go out or come in. 8And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen, a great people, that can- not be numbered nor counted for multitude. 9Give Thy servant there- fore an understanding heart to judge Thy people, that I may discern be- tween good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?' 10And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. uAnd God said unto him: 'Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself under- standing to discern justice; 12behold, I have done according to thy word: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. 13And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour — so that there hath not been any -among the kings like unto thee — all thy days. 14And if thou wilt walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.' ^And Solomon awoke, and, behold, it was a dream; and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
16Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 17And the one woman said: 'Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was deliv- ered of a child with her in the house. 18And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were to- gether; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 19And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlay it. 20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy landmaid slept, and laid it in her Dosom, and laid her dead child in my Dosom. ^And when I rose in the morn- ing to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked well at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I did bear/ ^And jhe other woman said: 'Nay; but FIRST KINGS the living is my son, and the dead is thy son/ And this said- 'No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son/ Thus they spoke before the king.
^Then said the king: 'The one saith: This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead; and the other saith: Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living/ 24And the king said: 'Fetch me a sword/ And they brought a sword before the king. 25And the king said 'Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other/ 26Then spoke the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned upon her son, and she said: 'Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it/ But the other said: 'It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it/ 27Then the king answered and said: 'Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof/ 28And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was hi him, to do justice.
A And king Solomon was king over -*• all Israel. 2And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; 3Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; 4and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; 6and Azariah the son of Na- than was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief min- ister and the king's friend; 6and Ahi- shar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.
7And Solomon had twelve officers!
over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year. 8And these are their names: The son of Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim; 9the son of Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth- hanan; 10the son of Hesed, in Arub- both; to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher; nthe son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife; ^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; 13the son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the villages of Jair the son of Manae- seh, which are in Gilead; even to him pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars; 14Ahina- dab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; 15Ahimaaz, in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife; 16Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; 17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; 18Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; 19Geber the son of Uri, in th£ land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and one officer that was [over all the officers] in the land. 20Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drink- ing and making merry. £ And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt; they brought pres- ents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. 2And Solomon's provision for one FIRST KINGS day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal; ^en fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl. 4For 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 round about him. 5And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
6And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. 7And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking. 8Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they unto the place where it should be, every man according to his charge.
9And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore. 10And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wis- dom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. nFor 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 round about. ^And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five. 13And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. 14And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
15And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto 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. I6And Solomon sent to Hiram, say- ing: 17' Thou knowest 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 my feet. 18But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side; there is neither ad- versary, nor evil occurrence. 19And, behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke unto David my father, saying: Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build the house for My name. 20Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar-trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants; and I will give thee hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt say; for thou knowest that there is not among us any that hath skill to hew timber like unto the Zidonians/ 2lAnd it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said: 'Blessed be the LORD this day, who hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.' ^And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: ' I have heard that which thou hast sent unto me; I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of cypress. ^My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, FIRST KINGS and thou shalt receive them; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household/ ^So aHiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of cypress according to all his desire. ^And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of beaten oil; thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. 26And the LORD as He promii ,ve Solomon wisdom, him; and there was and Afloniram was 29And Solomon had peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a, league together. 27And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 28And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; over the levy, threescore and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains; sobesides Solomon's chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people that wi ought in the work. 31And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stone. 32And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did. fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
£ And it came to pass in the four u 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 the LORD. 2And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, Feb. Hirom, and in verse 32. b That 10, the holy place, innermost room, the most holy plaoe.
and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. 3And the porch before bthe temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house. 4And for the house he made windows broad within, and narrow without. 5And against the wall of the house he built a side-structure round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of cthe Sanctuary; and he made side- chambers round about; 6the nether- most story of the side-structure was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made rebatements in the wall of the house round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house. — 7For 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. — 8The door for the dlowest row of chambers was in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle row, and out of the middle into the third. ^ 9So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered in the house with planks of cedar over beams. 10And he built the stories of the side-structure against all the house.
each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
uAnd-the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying: M<As for this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in My statutes, and execute Mine ordinances, and keep all My com- mandments to walk in them; then will I establish My word with thee, which I spoke unto David thy father; 0 Heb. debir, that is, the hindmost or d Heb. middle.
FIRST KINGS 13in that I will dwell therein among the children of Israel, and will not for- sake My people Israel.'
*4So Solomon built the house, and finished it. 15And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house unto the joists of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress. 16And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the joists; he even built them for himself within, for a Sanc- tuary, even for the most holy place. 17 And the house, that is, the temple before [the Sanctuary], was forty cubits long. 18And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen. 19And he prepared the Sanctuary in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LOEB. 20And before the Sanctuary which was twenty cu- bits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof overlaid with pure gold, he set an altar, which he covered with cedar. 21So Solomon overlaid athe house within with pure gold; and he drew chains of gold across the wall before the Sanctuary; and he overlaid it with gold. 22And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished; also the whole altar that belonged to the Sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
^And in the Sanctuary he made two cherubim of ohve-wood, each ten cubits high. ^And 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 unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. 25ABd the other | 6 That is, the Sanctuary.
cherub was ten cubits; both the cheru- bim were of one measure and one form. 26The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. 27And he set the cheru- bim 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. 28And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without. 30And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without. 31And for the entrance of the Sanctuary he made doors of ohve-wood, the door- posts within the frame having five angles. 32And as for the two doors of olive-wood, he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm-trees. 33So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, within a frame four- square; Mand two doors of cypress- wood; the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. 35And he carved thereon cherubim and palm- trees and open flowers; and he over- laid them with gold fitted upon the graven work^ 36And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.
87In the fourth year was the founda- tion of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Ziv. ^8And in the eleventh year, in the month Bui, which is the eighth month, was the house FIRST KINGS