finished throughout all the parts there- of, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
*7 And Solomon was building his ^own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon: the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. 3And it was covered with cedar above upon the side- chambers, that lay on forty and five pillars, fifteen in a row. 4And there were beams in three rows; ancl light was over against light in three ranks. 6And all the doors with their posts were square in the frame; and light was over against light in three ranks.
6And he made the porch of pillars: the 'length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and thick beams before them.
7And he made the porch of the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
8And his house where he might dwell, in the other court, within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
9A11 these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the great court. 10And the foun- dation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. uAnd above were costlv stones, after the measure of hewn stones, and cedar-wood. 12And the great court round about had three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams, like as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the court of the porch of the house.
13And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. 14He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naph- tahV 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. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
^hus he fashioned the two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high each; and a line of twelve cubits cUd com- pass it about; [and so] the other pillar. 16And he made two capitals of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. "He also made nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars: seven for the one capital, and seven, for the other capital. 18And he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the capitals that were upon the top of the pomegranates; and so did he for the other capital. 19And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily- work, four cubits. 20And there were capitals above also upon the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network; and the pome- granates were two hundred, in rows round about upon each capital. ^And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple; and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof FIRST KINGS Boaz. ^And upon pillars was lily-work the top of the of the pillars finished, d he made the so was the work molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. ^And under the brim of it round about there were knops which did compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about; the knops were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 25It stood upon 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 upon them above, and all their hinder parts were inward. 2SAnd it was a hand- breadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held two thousand baths.
27And he made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it. 28And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders; and there were borders between the stays; 29and on the borders that were between the stays were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the stays it was in like manner above; and be- neath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. 30And every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet thereof had undersetters; beneath the laver were the undersetters molten, with wreaths at the side of each. 31And the mouth of it within the crown and above was a cubit high; and the mouth thereof was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth of it were gravings; and their borders were foursquare, not round. 32And the four wheels were underneath the borders; and the axletrees of the wheels were in the base; and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. ^And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel; their axletrees, and their felloes, and their spokes, and their naves, were all molten. ^And there were four under- setters at the four corners of each base; the undersetters thereof were of one piece with the base itself. 35And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high; and on the top of the base the stays thereof and the borders thereof were of one piece therewith. 36And on the plates of the stays thereof, and on the bor- ders thereof, he graved cherubim, lions, and palm-trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about. 37After this manner he made the ten bases; all of them, had one casting, one measure, and one form.
38And he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths; and every laver was four cubits; and upon every one of the ten bases one laver. 39And 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.
40 And aHiram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins.
So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of the LORD: he 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; nd the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to * Heb. Hirom.
FIRST KIXGS cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars; ^and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases; ^and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea; ^and the^ pots, and the shovels, and the basins; even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of the LORD, were of burnished brass. ^In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zare- than. 47And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many; the weight of the brass could not be found out. 48And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar, and the table where? upon the showbread was, of gold; 49and the candlesticks, five on the right side, and five on the left, be- fore the Sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; ^and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the pans, 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, that is, of the temple, of gold.
51Thus all the work that king Sol- omon wrought in the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon ^brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
Q Then Solomon assembled the el- ° ders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 2And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Sol- omon at the feast, in the month Etha- nim, which is the seventh month. 3And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites briag up. 5And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. 6And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto its place, into the Sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim, 7For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above. 8And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the holy place, even before the Sanctuary; but they could not be seen without; and there they are unto this day. ^here was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a cove- nant with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt 10And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, 1Lso that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.
12Then spoke Solomon: The LORD hath said that He would dwell in the thick darkness. MI have surely built Thee a house of habitation, A place for Thee to dwell in for ever.
FIRST KINGS FIRST KINGS 14And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel; and all the congregation of Israel stood. 15Andhe said: l Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke "with His mouth unto David my father, and hath with His hand fulfilled it, saying; 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. 17Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 18But the LORD said unto David my father* Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for My name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart; "nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for My name. 20And the LORD hath 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 the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 21And there have I set a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with our fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.'
fflAnd Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven; ^and he said: 1O LORD, the God^of Israel, there is no God like Thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keepest covenant and mercy with Thy servants, that walk before Thee with all their heart; Mwho hast kept with Thy servant David my father that which Thou didst promise him; yea, Thou spokest with Thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with Thy hand, as it is this day. 25Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Thy servant David my father that which Thou hast promised him, say- ing: There shall not fail thee a man in My sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk before Me as thou hast walked before Me. 26Now therefore, 0 God of Israel, let Thy word, I pray Thee, be verified, which Thou didst speak unto Thy servant David my father.
27But will God in very truth dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the Jieaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house that I have builded! 28Yet have Thou respect unto the prayer of Thy serv- ant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which Thy servant prayeth before Thee this day; 29that Thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof Thou hast said: My name shall be there; to hearken unto the prayer which Thy servant shall pray toward this place. 30And hearken Thou to the supplication of Thy servant, and of Thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place; yea, hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling- place; and when Thou nearest, forgive.
81If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be exacted of him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before Thine altar in this house; 32then hear Thou in heaven, and do, and judge Thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the right- eous, to give him according to his righteousness.
FIRST KINGS FIRST KINGS Thy people Israel are smit- ten down before the enemy, when they do sin against Thee, if they turn again to Thee, and confess Thy name, and pray and make supplication unto Thee in this house; Hhen hear Thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of Thy people Israel, and bring them back unto the land which Thou gavest unto their fathers.
35When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, when they do sin against Thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess Thy name, and turn from their sin, when Thou dost afflict them; 36then hear Thou in heaven, and for- give the sin of Thy servants, and of Thy people Israel, when Thou teach- est them the good way wherein they should walk; and send rain upon Thy land, which Thou hast given to Thy people for an inheritance.
37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blast- ing or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; 3awhat prayer and supplication soever be made by any man of all Thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house; 39then hear Thou in heaven Thy dwell- ing-place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, -whose heart Thou know- est — for Thou, even Thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men— "that they may^fear Thee all the days, that they live in the land which Thou gavest unto our fathers.
^Moreover concerning the stranger that is not of Thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for Thy name's sake— ^or they shall hear of Thy great name, and of Thy mighty hand, and of Thine out- stretched arm — when he shall come and pray toward this house; ^hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to Thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee, as doth Thy people Israel, and that they may know that Thy name is called upon this house which I have built.
**If Thy people go out to battle against then1 enemy, by whatsoever way Thou shalt send them, and they pray unto the LORD toward the city which Thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Thy name; ^hen hear Thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. ^If they sin against Thee — for there is no man that sinneth not — and Thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, far off or near; 47yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn back, and make supplication unto Thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying: ^ We have sinned, and have done injquitously, we have dealt wickedly; 48if they return unto Thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray unto Thee toward their land, which Thou gayest unto their fathers, the city which Thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for Thy name; 49then hear Thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause; Mand forgive Thy people who have sinned against Thee^ and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against FIRST KINGS FIRST KINGS Thee; and give them compassion before those who carried them cap- tive, that they may have compassion on them; 51for they are. Thy people, and Thine inheritance, which Thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron; ^that Thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of Thy servant, and unto the supplication of Thy people Israel, to hearken unto them whensoever they cry unto Thee. MFor Thou didst set them apart from among all the Eeoples of the earth, to be Thine in- eritance, as Thou didst speak by the hand of Moses Thy servant, when Thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, 0 Lord GOD/ MAnd it was so, that when Sol- omon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LOBD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, -from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven. B5And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying: ^'Blessed be the LOBD, that hath given rest unto His people Israel, according to all that He promised; there hath not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised by the hand of Moses His servant. 57The LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; let Him not leave us, nor forsake us; 68that He may in- cline our hearts unto Him, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His com- mandments, and His statutes, and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers. 69And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD 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; 60that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD, He is God; there is none else. 61Let your heart therefore be whole with the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.'
^And the long, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. ^And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which He offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and aft the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. ^The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings; because the brazen altar that was before the LORD was too little to re- ceive the burnt-offering, and the meal- offering, and the fat of the peace- offerings.
66So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entrance of Hamath unto the Brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. 660n the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shown unto David His servant, and to Israel His people. Q And it came to pass, when u Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's de- light which he was pleased to do, 2that the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared unto him at Gibeon. 8And the LORD said unto him: 'I ^have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou FIRST KINGS hast made before Me: I have hal- lowed this house, which thou hast built, to put My name there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually, 4And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before Me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do ac- cording to all that I have command- ed thee? and wilt keep My statutes and Mine ordinances; Hhen I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever; according as I promised to David thy father, saying: There shah1 not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel. 6But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My com- mandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve 'other gods, and worship them; 7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples; 8and this house which is so high [shall become desolate], and every one that passeth by it shall be aston- ished, and shall hiss; and when they shall say: Why hath the LOKD done thus unto this land, and to this house? 9they shall be answered: Be- cause they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them; therefore hath the LOED brought all this evil upon them.'
10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house — unow Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and cypress-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire — that then I king Solomon gave Hiram twenty j cities in the land of Galilee. ^And I Hiram came out from Tyre to see the ] cities wliich Solomon had given him; • , and they pleased him not. ^And^he Isuid: ' \Vhat cities are these which i thou hast given me, my brother?' And ] they were called the land of Cabul, unto this day. 14And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
15And this is the account of the levy which king Solomon raised; to build the house of the LOBD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. 16Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a portion unto his daugh- ter, Solomon's wife. 17And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, 18and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, "and all the store-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. 20AU;fche people that were left of the Amorites, the Hitfcitee, the Pcrizzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb- usites, who were not of the children of Israel; 21even their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Sol- omon raise a levy of bondseryants, unto this day. t22But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bond- servants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, .and his captains, and rulers of hit* chariots and of his horsemen.
FIRST KINGS FIRST KINGS KThese were the chief officers that were over Solomon's work, five hun- dred and fifty, who bore rule over the people that wrought in the work.
^But Pharaoh's daughter came up •out of the city of David unto her house which [Solomon] had built for her; then did he build Millo, 25And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, offering thereby, upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.
26And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is be- side Moth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 2SAnd they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hun- dred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon. 1 A And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Sol- omon because of the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. 2And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices and gold very much, and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she spoke with him of all that was in her heart. ^ 3And Solomon told her all her questions; there was not any thing hid from the king which he told her not. 4And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built, 6and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his burnt-offering which he offered, in the house of the LOED, there was no more spirit in her. 6And she said to the king: ' It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom. 7Howbeit I believe^ not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it; and, behold, the hall was not told me; thou hast wisdom and prosperity exceeding the fame which I heard. 8Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, that stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wis- dom. 9Blessed be the LORD thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel; because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made He thee king, to do justice and righteousness/ 10And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great 'store, and precious stones; there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. uAnd the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of sandal-wood and precious stones. ^And the king made of the sandal-wood pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for the sing- ers; there came no such sandal-wood, nor was seen, unto this day. 13And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.