1:1Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.1:2Therefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.1:3So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.1:4The young lady was very beautiful; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king didn't know her intimately.1:5Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.1:6His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.1:7He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.1:8But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.1:9Adonijah killed sheep and cattle and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's servants:1:10but Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he didn't call.1:11Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Haven't you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn't know it?1:12Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.1:13Go and get you in to king David, and tell him, Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?1:14Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and confirm your words.1:15Bathsheba went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.1:16Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, What would you?1:17She said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid,saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.1:18Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don't know it:1:19and he has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn't called Solomon your servant.1:20You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.1:21Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.1:22Behold, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.1:23They told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. When he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.1:24Nathan said, My lord, king, have you said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?1:25For he is gone down this day, and has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest; and behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say,Longlive king Adonijah.1:26But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.1:27Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?1:28Then king David answered, Call to me Bathsheba. She came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.1:29The king swore, and said, As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,1:30most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; most certainly so will I do this day.1:31Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.1:32King David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. They came before the king.1:33The king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:1:34and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel; and blow you the trumpet, and say,Longlive king Solomon.1:35Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place; and I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.1:36Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say sotoo.1:37As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.1:38So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride on king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.1:39Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said,Longlive king Solomon.1:40All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with the sound of them.1:41Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?1:42While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said, Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.1:43Jonathan answered Adonijah, Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king:1:44and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king's mule;1:45and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon; and they are come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.1:46Also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.1:47Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne: and the king bowed himself on the bed.1:48Also thus said the king, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it.1:49All the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.1:50Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.1:51It was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for, behold, he has laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.1:52Solomon said, If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.1:53So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and did obeisance to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, Go to your house.
2:1Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,2:2I am going the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and show yourself a man;2:3and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes,andhis commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.2:4That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.2:5Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.2:6Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.2:7But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.2:8Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, 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 Yahweh, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword.2:9Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.2:10David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.2:11The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty-three years reigned he in Jerusalem.2:12Solomon sat on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.2:13Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, Come you peaceably? He said, Peaceably.2:14He said moreover, I have somewhat to tell you. She said, Say on.2:15He said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: however the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was his from Yahweh.2:16Now I ask one petition of you; don't deny me. She said to him, Say on.2:17He said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife."2:18Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for you to the king.2:19Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to 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.2:20Then she said, I ask one small petition of you; don't deny me. The king said to her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you.2:21She said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.2:22King Solomon answered his mother, Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.2:23Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.2:24Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.2:25King Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.2:26To Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death: but I will not at this time put you to death, because you bear the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.2:27So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill the word of Yahweh, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.2:28The news came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he didn't turn after Absalom. Joab fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.2:29It was told king Solomon, Joab is fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him.2:30Benaiah came to the Tent of Yahweh, and said to him, Thus says the king, Come forth. He said, No; but I will die here. Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.2:31The king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.2:32Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it,to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.2:33So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed forever: but to David, and to his seed, and to his house, and to his throne, shall there be peace for ever from Yahweh.2:34Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.2:35The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the army; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.2:36The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and don't go forth from there any where.2:37For on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, know you for certain that you shall surely die: your blood shall be on your own head.2:38Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.2:39It happened at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, Behold, your servants are in Gath.2:40Shimei arose, and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.2:41It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.2:42The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Didn't I adjure you by Yahweh, and protest to you, saying, Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk abroad any where, you shall surely die? and you said to me, The saying that I have heard is good.2:43Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?2:44The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness which your heart is privy to, that you did to David my father: therefore Yahweh shall return your wickedness on your own head.2:45But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Yahweh forever.2:46So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
3:1Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took 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 Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.3:2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.3:3Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.3:4The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer on that altar.3:5In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give you.3:6Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.3:7Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child; I don't know how to go out or come in.3:8Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude.3:9Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?3:10The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.3:11God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;3:12behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you.3:13I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like you, all your days.3:14If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days.3:15Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream: and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.3:16Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king, and stood before him.3:17The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.3:18It happened the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.3:19This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.3:20She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.3:21When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.3:22The other woman said, No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son. This said, No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.3:23Then said the king, The one says, This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead: and the other says, No; but your son is the dead, and my son is the living.3:24The king said, Get me a sword. They brought a sword before the king.3:25The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.3:26Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.3:27Then the king answered, Give her the living child, and in no way kill it: she is its mother.3:28All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
4:1King Solomon was king over all Israel.4:2These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;4:3Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;4:4and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;4:5and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister,andthe king's friend;4:6and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.4:7Solomon 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.4:8These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;4:9Ben Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;4:10Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (to himpertainedSocoh, and all the land of Hepher);4:11Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as wife);4:12Baana 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;4:13Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to himpertainedthe towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead;evento himpertainedthe region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);4:14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;4:15Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);4:16Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;4:17Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;4:18Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;4:19Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; andhe wasthe only officer who was in the land.4:20Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.4:21Solomon 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.4:22Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,4:23ten 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.4:24For he had dominion over allthe regionon 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.4:25Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.4:26Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.4:27Those 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.4:28Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place wherethe officerswere, every man according to his duty.4:29God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.4:30Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.4:31For 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.4:32He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.4:33He 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.4:34There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
5:1Hiram 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.5:2Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,5:3You 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.5:4But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence.5:5Behold, 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.5:6Now 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.5:7It 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.5:8Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heardthe messagewhich you have sent to me: I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.5:9My 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.5:10So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.5:11Solomon 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.5:12Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.5:13King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.5:14He 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.5:15Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;5:16besides 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.5:17The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.5:18Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
6:1It 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.6:2The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twentycubits, and its height thirty cubits.6:3The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its length, according to the breadth of the house;andten cubits was its breadth before the house.6:4For the house he made windows of fixed lattice work.6:5Against 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.6:6The 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 offsetsin the wallof the house all around, thatthe beamsshould not have hold in the walls of the house.6:7The 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.6:8The door for the middle side chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middlestory, and out of the middle into the third.6:9So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.6:10He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.6:11The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,6:12Concerning 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.6:13I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.6:14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.6:15He 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.6:16He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the wallsof the ceiling: he builtthemfor it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.6:17The house, that is, the temple beforethe oracle, was forty cubitslong.6:18There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.6:19He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.6:20Within the oracle wasa space oftwenty 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.6:21So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.6:22The 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.6:23In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.6:24Five 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.6:25The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.6:26The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.6:27He 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.6:28He overlaid the cherubim with gold.6:29He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.6:30The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.6:31For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintelanddoor posts were a fifth partof the wall.6:32Sohe madetwo 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.6:33So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth partof the wall;6:34and two doors of fir wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.6:35He carvedthereoncherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.6:36He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.6:37In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv.6:38In 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.
7:1Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.7:2For 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.7:3It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.7:4There were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.7:5All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.7:6He 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.7:7He 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.7:8His 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.7:9All 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.7:10The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.7:11Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.7:12The 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.7:13King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.7:14He 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.7:15For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about.7:16He 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.7:17There 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.7:18So 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.7:19The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.7:20There 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.7:21He 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.7:22On the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.7:23He 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.7:24Under 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.7:25It 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.7:26It 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.7:27He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height.7:28The work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;7:29and 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.7:30Every 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.7:31The 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.7:32The 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.7:33The 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.7:34There were four supports at the four corners of each base: its supports were of the base itself.7:35In 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.7:36On 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.7:37After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.7:38He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on very one of the ten bases one basin.7:39He 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.7:40Hiram 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:7:41the 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;7:42and 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;7:43and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases;7:44and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;7:45and 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.7:46In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.7:47Solomon left all the vesselsunweighed, because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.7:48Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show bread was, of gold;7:49and 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;7:50and 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.7:51Thus 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,eventhe silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.
8:1Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers'housesof 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.8:2All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.8:3All the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.8:4They 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.8:5King 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.8:6The 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.8:7For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.8:8The 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.8:9There 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.8:10It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,8:11so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh.8:12Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.8:13I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.8:14The king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.8:15He 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,8:16Since 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.8:17Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.8:18But 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:8:19nevertheless 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.8:20Yahweh 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.8:21There 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.8:22Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;8:23and 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;8:24who 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.8:25Now 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.8:26Now therefore, God of Israel, Please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.8:27But 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!8:28Yet 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;8:29that 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.8:30Listen you 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.8:31If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comeandswear before your altar in this house;8:32then hear you 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.8:33When 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:8:34then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.8:35When 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 do afflict them:8:36then 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.8:37If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there is blightormildew, locustorcaterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be;8:38whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man,orby all your people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:8:39then 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;)8:40that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.8:41Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake8:42(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;8:43hear 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.8:44If 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;8:45then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.8:46If 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;8:47yet 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;8:48if 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:8:49then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;8:50and 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 them8:51(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);8:52that 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.8:53For you did separate 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.8:54It 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.8:55He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,8:56Blessed 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.8:57Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us;8:58that 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.8:59Let 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;8:60that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God; there is none else.8:61Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.8:62The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.8:63Solomon 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.8:64The 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.8:65So 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.8:66On 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.
9:1It 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,9:2that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.9:3Yahweh 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.9:4As 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;9:5then 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.9:6But 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;9:7then 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.9:8Though 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?9:9and 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.9:10It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house9:11(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.9:12Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn't please him.9:13He said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? He called them the land of Cabul to this day.9:14Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.9:15This 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.9:16Pharaoh 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.9:17Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,9:18and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,9:19and 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.9:20As 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;9:21their 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.9:22But 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.9:23These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.9:24But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house whichSolomonhad built for her: then did he build Millo.9:25Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith,on the altarthat was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.9:26King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of theRed Sea, in the land of Edom.9:27Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.9:28They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
10:1When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.10:2She came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all that was in her heart.10:3Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hidden from the king which he didn't tell her.10:4When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,10:5and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing, and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.10:6She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.10:7However I didn't believe the words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it: and behold, the half was not told me; your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.10:8Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you,andwho hear your wisdom.10:9Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel: because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore made he you king, to do justice and righteousness.10:10She gave the king one hundred 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.10:11The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones.10:12The king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen, to this day.10:13King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.10:14Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,10:15besidesthat whichthe tradersbrought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.10:16King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundredshekelsof gold went to one buckler.10:17he madethree hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.10:18Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.10:19There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.10:20Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.10:21All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.10:22For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.10:23So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.10:24All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.10:25They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.10:26Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.10:27The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.10:28The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.10:29A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundredshekelsof silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
11:1Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;11:2of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon joined to these in love.11:3He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.11:4For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.11:5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.11:6Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.11:7Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.11:8So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.11:9Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,11:10and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded.11:11Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Because this is done of you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.11:12Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.11:13However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.11:14Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.11:15For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom11:16(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);11:17that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child.11:18They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.11:19Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.11:20The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.11:21When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.11:22Then Pharaoh said to him, But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country? He answered, Nothing: however only let me depart.11:23God raised upanotheradversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.11:24He gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop, when David killed themof Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and lived therein, and reigned in Damascus.11:25He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the mischief that Hadaddid: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.11:26Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king.11:27This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.11:28The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.11:29It happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; nowAhijahhad clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field.11:30Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.11:31He said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces; for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you11:32(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David's sake and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);11:33because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; and they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, andto keepmy statutes and my ordinances, as did David his father.11:34However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;11:35but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.11:36To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.11:37I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.11:38It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.11:39I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever.11:40Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.11:41Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, aren't they written in the book of the acts of Solomon?11:42The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.11:43Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
12:1Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.12:2It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,12:3and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,12:4Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.12:5He said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. The people departed.12:6King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give you me to return answer to this people?12:7They spoke to him, saying, If you will be a servant to this people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.12:8But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.12:9He said to them, What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?12:10The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus you shall tell this people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; thus you shall speak to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.12:11Now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.12:12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.12:13The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,12:14and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.12:15So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about of Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.12:16When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, Israel: now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.12:17But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.12:18Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.12:19So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.12:20It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.12:21When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.12:22But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,12:23Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,12:24Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh, and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh.12:25Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived therein; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.12:26Jeroboam said in his heart, Now will the kingdom return to the house of David:12:27if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.12:28Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.12:29He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.12:30This thing became a sin; for the people wentto worshipbefore the one, even to Dan.12:31He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.12:32Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.12:33He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.