The First Book Melakhim
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
Yisra'el, and found Avishag 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 Adoniyahu the son of Chaggit 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
Avshalom. 1:7He conferred with Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah, and with Avyatar the
kohen: and they following Adoniyahu helped him.
1:8But Tzadok the kohen, and Benayah the son of
Yehoiada, and Natan the prophet, and Shim`i, and Re`i, and the mighty men
who belonged to David, were not with Adoniyahu.
1:9Adoniyahu
killed sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zochelet, which is
beside `En-Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king's sons, and all
the men of Yehudah, the king's servants:
1:10but
Natan the prophet, and Benayah, and the mighty men, and Shlomo his brother,
he didn't call.
1:11Then Natan spoke to Bat-Sheva the
mother of Shlomo, saying, Haven't you heard that Adoniyahu the son of
Chaggit 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 Shlomo.
1:13Go
and get you in to king David, and tell him, Didn't you, my lord, king,
swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Shlomo your son shall reign after
me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adoniyahu reign?
1:14Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come
in after you, and confirm your words.
1:15Bat-Sheva
went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and
Avishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.
1:16Bat-Sheva
bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, What would you?
1:17She said to him, My lord, you swore by the LORD your G-d to your
handmaid, saying, Assuredly Shlomo your son shall reign after me,
and he shall sit on my throne. 1:18Now, behold,
Adoniyahu reigns; and you, my lord the king, don't know it:
1:19and he has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has
called all the sons of the king, and Avyatar the kohen,
and Yo'av the captain of the host; but he hasn't called Shlomo your
servant. 1:20You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Yisra'el 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 Shlomo shall be counted offenders.
1:22Behold, while she yet talked with the king, Natan the prophet came
in. 1:23They told the king, saying, Behold, Natan the prophet. When he was
come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to
the ground.
1:24Natan said, My lord, king, have you
said, Adoniyahu shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?
1:25For he is gone down this day, and has slain oxen and fatlings and
sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the captains of
the host, and Avyatar the kohen; and, behold, they are
eating and drinking before him, and say, Long live king Adoniyahu.
1:26But he hasn't called me, even me your servant, and Tzadok the
kohen, and Benayah the son of Yehoiada, and your servant
Shlomo. 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 Bat-Sheva. She came into the
king's presence, and stood before the king.
1:29The
king swore, and said, As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of
all adversity,
1:30most assuredly as I swore to you by the
LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, saying, Assuredly Shlomo your son shall reign
after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; most assuredly so will
I do this day.
1:31Then Bat-Sheva 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 Tzadok the
kohen, and Natan the prophet, and Benayah the son of
Yehoiada. They came before the king.
1:33The
king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause
Shlomo my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gichon:
1:34and let Tzadok the kohen and Natan the prophet
anoint him there king over Yisra'el; and blow you the shofar,
and say, Long live king Shlomo.
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
Yisra'el and over Yehudah. 1:36Benayah the son of
Yehoiada answered the king, and said, Amein: the LORD, the G-d of my lord
the king, say so too. 1:37As the LORD has
been with my lord the king, even so be he with Shlomo, and make his throne
greater than the throne of my lord king David.
1:38So
Tzadok the kohen, and Natan the prophet, and Benayah the
son of Yehoiada, and the Kereti and the Peleti, went down, and caused
Shlomo to ride on king David's mule, and brought him to Gichon.
1:39Tzadok the kohen took the horn of oil out of
the Tent, and anointed Shlomo. They blew the shofar; and
all the people said, Long live king Shlomo.
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.
1:41Adoniyahu and all the guests who were with him heard it as they
had made an end of eating. When Yo'av heard the sound of the
shofar, he said, Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
1:42While he yet spoke, behold, Yonatan the son of Avyatar the
kohen came: and Adoniyahu said, Come in; for you are a
worthy man, and bring good news. 1:43Yonatan answered
Adoniyahu, Most assuredly our lord king David has made Shlomo king:
1:44and the king has sent with him Tzadok the kohen,
and Natan the prophet, and Benayah the son of Yehoiada, and the Kereti and
the Peleti; and they have caused him to ride on the king's mule;
1:45and Tzadok the kohen and Natan the prophet have
anointed him king in Gichon; and they are come up from there rejoicing, so
that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.
1:46Also Shlomo sits on the throne of the kingdom.
1:47Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David,
saying, Your G-d make the name of Shlomo 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 the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el,
who has given one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it.
1:49All the guests of Adoniyahu were afraid, and rose up, and went
every man his way.
1:50Adoniyahu feared because of Shlomo;
and he arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
1:51It was told Shlomo, saying, Behold, Adoniyahu fears king Shlomo;
for, behold, he has laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king
Shlomo swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.
1:52Shlomo 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 Shlomo sent, and they brought him down from the altar. He
came and did obeisance to king Shlomo; and Shlomo said to him, Go to your
house.
2:1Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged
Shlomo 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 charge of the LORD your G-d, to walk in his ways, to
keep his statutes, and his mitzvot, and his
ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the
law of Moshe, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you
turn yourself.
2:4That the LORD 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 Yisra'el.
2:5Moreover you know also what Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah did to me,
even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Yisra'el, to Aviner
the son of Ner, and to `Amasa the son of Yeter, whom he killed, and shed
the blood of war in shalom, and put the blood of war on his sash that was
about his loins, 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 She'ol in shalom. 2:7But show kindness
to the sons of Barzillai the Gil`adite, and let them be of those who eat at
your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Avshalom your brother.
2:8Behold, there is with you Shim`i the son of Gera, the Binyamini,
of Bachurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to
Machanayim; but he came down to meet me at the Yarden, and I swore to him
by the LORD, 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 She'ol with blood. 2:10David slept with
his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
2:11The
days that David reigned over Yisra'el were forty years; seven years reigned
he in Chevron, and thirty-three years reigned he in Yerushalayim.
2:12Shlomo sat on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was
established greatly. 2:13Then Adoniyahu the
son of Chaggit came to Bat-Sheva the mother of Shlomo. 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 Yisra'el 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 the LORD.
2:16Now I ask one petition of you; don't deny me. She said to him, Say
on. 2:17He said, Please speak to Shlomo the king (for he will not tell you
'no'), that he give me Avishag the Shunammite as wife.
2:18Bat-Sheva said, Well; I will speak for you to the king.
2:19Bat-Sheva therefore went to king Shlomo, to speak to him for
Adoniyahu. 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
Avishag the Shunammite be given to Adoniyahu your brother as wife.
2:22King Shlomo answered his mother, Why do you ask Avishag the
Shunammite for Adoniyahu? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder
brother; even for him, and for Avyatar the kohen, and
for Yo'av the son of Tzeru'yah. 2:23Then king Shlomo
swore by the LORD, saying, G-d do so to me, and more also, if Adoniyahu has
not spoken this word against his own life.
2:24Now
therefore as the LORD 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 Adoniyahu shall be put to death this day.
2:25King
Shlomo sent by Benayah the son of Yehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he
died. 2:26To Avyatar the kohen said the king, Get you to
`Anatot, 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 G-d before
David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father
was afflicted.
2:27So Shlomo thrust out Avyatar from being
kohen to the LORD, that he might fulfill the word of the
LORD, which he spoke concerning the house of `Eli in Shiloh.
2:28The news came to Yo'av; for Yo'av had turned after Adoniyahu,
though he didn't turn after Avshalom. Yo'av fled to the Tent of the LORD,
and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
2:29It
was told king Shlomo, Yo'av is fled to the Tent of the LORD, and, behold,
he is by the altar. Then Shlomo sent Benayah the son of Yehoiada, saying,
Go, fall on him.
2:30Benayah came to the Tent of the
LORD, and said to him, Thus says the king, Come forth. He said, No; but I
will die here. Benayah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Yo'av,
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 Yo'av shed without cause, from me and from my
father's house.
2:32The LORD 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, Aviner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Yisra'el, and `Amasa
the son of Yeter, captain of the host of Yehudah.
2:33So
shall their blood return on the head of Yo'av, 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 shalom for ever from the LORD.
2:34Then Benayah the son of Yehoiada went up, and fell on him, and
killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
2:35The king put Benayah the son of Yehoiada in his room over the
host; and Tzadok the kohen did the king put in the room
of Avyatar.
2:36The king sent and called for Shim`i,
and said to him, Build yourself a house in Yerushalayim, 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.
2:38Shim`i said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king
has said, so will your servant do. Shim`i lived in Yerushalayim many days.
2:39It happened at the end of three years, that two of the servants of
Shim`i ran away to Akhish, son of Ma`akhah, king of Gat. They told Shim`i,
saying, Behold, your servants are in Gat.
2:40Shim`i
arose, and saddled his donkey, and went to Gat to Akhish, to seek his
servants; and Shim`i went, and brought his servants from Gat.
2:41It was told Shlomo that Shim`i had gone from Yerushalayim to Gat,
and was come again.
2:42The king sent and called for
Shim`i, and said to him, Didn't I adjure you by the LORD, 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
the LORD, and the mitzvah that I have charged you with?
2:44The king said moreover to Shim`i, You know all the wickedness
which your heart is privy to, that you did to David my father: therefore
the LORD shall return your wickedness on your own head.
2:45But king Shlomo shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be
established before the LORD forever.
2:46So
the king commanded Benayah the son of Yehoiada; and he went out, and fell
on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Shlomo.
3:1Shlomo made affinity with Par`oh king of Egypt, and took Par`oh's
daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end
of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of
Yerushalayim round about. 3:2Only the people
sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the
name of the LORD until those days. 3:3Shlomo loved the
LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and
burnt incense in the high places. 3:4The king went to
Giv`on to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand
burnt offerings did Shlomo offer on that altar.
3:5In
Giv`on the LORD appeared to Shlomo in a dream by night; and G-d said, Ask
what I shall give you. 3:6Shlomo 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, LORD my G-d, 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 Shlomo 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 mitzvot,
as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days.
3:15Shlomo awoke; and, behold, it was a dream: and he came to
Yerushalayim, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and
offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast
to all his servants. 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 the mother of it. 3:28All Yisra'el heard
of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for
they saw that the wisdom of G-d was in him, to do justice.
4:1King Shlomo was king over all Yisra'el.
4:2These
were the princes whom he had: `Azaryah the son of Tzadok, the
kohen; 4:3Elichoref and
Achiyah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Yehoshafat the son of Achilud, the
recorder; 4:4and Benayah the son of Yehoiada was over the host; and Tzadok and
Avyatar were kohanim;
4:5and
`Azaryah the son of Natan was over the officers; and Zavud the son of Natan
was chief minister, and the king's friend;
4:6and
Achishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of `Avda was over the
men subject to forced labor. 4:7Shlomo had twelve
officers over all Yisra'el, 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 Efrayim;
4:9Ben-Deker, in Makatz, and in Sha`alvim, and Beth-shemesh, and
Elon-Beit-Chanan;
4:10Ben-Chesed, in Arubbot (to him
pertained Sokho, and all the land of Chefer);
4:11Ben-Avinadav,
in all the height of Dor (he had Tafat the daughter of Shlomo as wife);
4:12Ba`anah the son of Achilud, in Ta`nakh and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean
which is beside Tzaretan, beneath Yizre`el, from Beth-shean to
Avel-Mecholah, as far as beyond Yokme`am;
4:13Ben-Gever,
in Ramot-Gil`ad (to him pertained the towns of Ya'ir the son of
Menashsheh, which are in Gil`ad; even to him pertained the
region of Argov, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and
brazen bars);
4:14Achinadav the son of `Iddo, in
Machanayim;
4:15Achima`atz, in Naftali (he also took
Basemat the daughter of Shlomo as wife);
4:16Ba`anah
the son of Chushai, in Asher and Be`alot;
4:17Yehoshafat
the son of Paru'ach, in Yissakhar; 4:18Shim`i the son of
Ela, in Binyamin;
4:19Gever the son of Uri, in the land
of Gil`ad, the country of Sichon king of the Amori and of `Og king of
Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.
4:20Yehudah and Yisra'el were many as the sand which is by the sea in
multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
4:21Shlomo
ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Pelishtim,
and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Shlomo all the
days of his life.
4:22Shlomo's provision for one day was
thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
4:23ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and one hundred
sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
4:24For he had dominion over all the region on this side the
River, from Tifsach even to `Aza, over all the kings on this side the
River: and he had shalom on all sides round about him.
4:25Yehudah and Yisra'el lived safely, every man under his vine and
under his fig tree, from Dan even to Be'er-Sheva, all the days of Shlomo.
4:26Shlomo had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen. 4:27Those officers
provided food for king Shlomo, and for all who came to king Shlomo'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 where the officers were, every man according to his
charge. 4:29God gave Shlomo wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very
great understanding, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
4:30Shlomo'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 Etan the Ezrachite, and Heman, and Kalkol, and Darda,
the sons of Machol: and his fame was in all the nations round about.
4:32He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand
five. 4:33He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Levanon 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 Shlomo, from all kings of the
earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
5:1Chiram king of Tzor sent his servants to Shlomo; for he had heard
that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Chiram was
ever a lover of David. 5:2Shlomo sent to
Chiram, saying,
5:3You know how that David my father could
not build a house for the name of the LORD his G-d for the wars which were
about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his
feet. 5:4But now the LORD my G-d 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 the LORD my G-d, as the LORD
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 Levanon; 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 Tzidonim.
5:7It happened, when Chiram heard the words of Shlomo, that he
rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, who has given to
David a wise son over this great people.
5:8Chiram
sent to Shlomo, saying, I have heard the message which you have sent
to me: I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning
timber of fir.
5:9My servants shall bring them down from
Levanon 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 Chiram gave
Shlomo timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
5:11Shlomo gave Chiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to
his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Shlomo to Chiram
year by year.
5:12The LORD gave Shlomo wisdom, as he
promised him; and there was shalom between Chiram and Shlomo; and they two
made a league together. 5:13King Shlomo raised
a levy out of all Yisra'el; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
5:14He sent them to Levanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month
they were in Levanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men
subject to forced labor. 5:15Shlomo had seventy
thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in
the mountains;
5:16besides Shlomo'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 hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the
foundation of the house with worked stone.
5:18Shlomo's
builders and Chiram's builders and the Givli 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 Yisra'el were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year
of Shlomo's reign over Yisra'el, in the month Ziv, which is the second
month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
6:2The
house which king Shlomo built for the LORD, the length of it was sixty
cubits, and the breadth of it twenty cubits, and the height of it
thirty cubits.
6:3The porch before the temple of the
house, twenty cubits was the length of it, according to the breadth of the
house; and ten cubits was the breadth of it before the house.
6:4For the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
6:5Against the wall of the house he built stories round about,
against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the
oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.
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
offsets in the wall of the house round about, that the beams
should 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 middle story, 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 the
LORD came to Shlomo, saying, 6:12Concerning this
house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute
my ordinances, and keep all my mitzvot 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 Yisra'el, and will not forsake
my people Yisra'el.
6:14So Shlomo 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 walls of the ceiling: he built them for it within, for
an oracle, even for the most holy place.
6:17The
house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits
long. 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 the LORD. 6:20Within the oracle
was a space of twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in
breadth, and twenty cubits in the height of it; and he overlaid it with
pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.
6:21So
Shlomo 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 Keruvim of olive-wood, each ten cubits
high. 6:24Five cubits was the one wing of the Keruv, and five cubits the
other wing of the Keruv: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the
uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
6:25The
other Keruv was ten cubits: both the Keruvim were of one measure and one
form. 6:26The height of the one Keruv was ten cubits, and so was it of the
other Keruv.
6:27He set the Keruvim within the inner
house; and the wings of the Keruvim were stretched forth, so that the wing
of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other Keruv touched
the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the
house. 6:28He overlaid the Keruvim with gold.
6:29He
carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of
Keruvim 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
lintel and door-posts were a fifth part of the wall.
6:32So he made two doors of olive-wood; and he carved on them
carvings of Keruvim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with
gold; and he spread the gold on the Keruvim, 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 part of 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 carved thereon Keruvim 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 hewn stone, and a
course of cedar beams. 6:37In the fourth year
was the foundation of the house of the LORD 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 the parts of it, and according to all
the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
7:1Shlomo was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished
all his house.
7:2For he built the house of the forest of
Levanon; the length of it was one hundred cubits, and the breadth of it
fifty cubits, and the height of it 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; the length of it was fifty cubits, and the
breadth of it 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 Par`oh's daughter (whom Shlomo had
taken as wife), like this porch. 7:9All these were of
costly stones, even of hewn 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 hewn
stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
7:12The
great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of
cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the
porch of the house.
7:13King Shlomo sent and fetched
Chiram out of Tzor.
7:14He was the son of a widow of the
tribe of Naftali, and his father was a man of Tzor, a worker in brass; and
he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in
brass. He came to king Shlomo, and performed all his work.
7:15For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high
apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed 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 round about 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 round about 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 the name of it Yakhin; and he set up the left pillar,
and called the name of it Bo`az. 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 the height of it was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits
compassed it round about. 7:24Under the brim of
it round about there were buds which did compass it, for ten cubits,
compassing the sea round about: 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 the brim of it 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 the breadth of it, and three cubits the height of it.
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 Keruvim;
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 brazen 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 the mouth of it was round after the work of a
pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on the mouth of it 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: the
supports of it 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 the stays of it and the panels of it were of the same.
7:36On the plates of the stays of it, and on the panels of it, he
engraved Keruvim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each,
with wreaths round about. 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. 7:40Chiram made the
basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Chiram made an end of doing all
the work that he worked for king Shlomo in the house of the LORD:
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 Chiram made for
king Shlomo, in the house of the LORD, were of burnished brass.
7:46In the plain of the Yarden did the king cast them, in the clay
ground between Sukkot and Tzaretan. 7:47Shlomo left all
the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: the weight
of the brass could not be found out.
7:48Shlomo
made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar,
and the table whereupon the show bread was, of gold;
7:49and the menorot, 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 Shlomo worked in the house of the LORD
was finished. Shlomo brought in the things which David his father had
dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put
them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
8:1Then Shlomo assembled the elders of Yisra'el, and all the heads of
the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses of the children of
Yisra'el, to king Shlomo in Yerushalayim, to bring up the ark of the
covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Tziyon.
8:2All the men of Yisra'el assembled themselves to king Shlomo at the
feast, in the month Etanim, which is the seventh month.
8:3All the elders of Yisra'el came, and the kohanim
took up the ark.
8:4They 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 kohanim and the Levites bring
up. 8:5King Shlomo and all the congregation of Yisra'el, who were
assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen,
that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.
8:6The kohanim brought in the ark of the covenant
of the LORD to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy
place, even under the wings of the Keruvim.
8:7For
the Keruvim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the
Keruvim covered the ark and the poles of it 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
Moshe put there at Chorev, when the LORD made a covenant with the children
of Yisra'el, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
8:10It came to pass, when the kohanim were come out
of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
8:11so that the kohanim could not stand to minister
by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the
LORD. 8:12Then spoke Shlomo, the LORD 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 Yisra'el: and
all the assembly of Yisra'el stood. 8:15He said, Blessed
be the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, 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 Yisra'el out of Egypt, I chose no
city out of all the tribes of Yisra'el to build a house, that my name might
be there; but I chose David to be over my people Yisra'el.
8:17Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for
the name of the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el.
8:18But
the LORD 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 loins, he shall build the house for my name.
8:20The LORD 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 Yisra'el, as the
LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the G-d
of Yisra'el.
8:21There have I set a place for the ark,
in which is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when
he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
8:22Shlomo
stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of
Yisra'el, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;
8:23and
he said, LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, there is no G-d 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, LORD, the G-d of
Yisra'el, 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 Yisra'el, if only your children take heed to their way, to
walk before me as you have walked before me.
8:26Now
therefore, G-d of Yisra'el, Please let your word be verified, which you
spoke to your servant David my father.
8:27But
will G-d 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, LORD my G-d, 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
Yisra'el, 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 come and swear 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 Yisra'el 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
Yisra'el, 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
Yisra'el, 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 be blasting or mildew,
arbeh or caterpillar; 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, or by
all your people Yisra'el, 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 Yisra'el, when he shall
come out of a far country for your name's sake
8:42(for
they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your
outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house;
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 Yisra'el, 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 the LORD 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 them
8:51(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought
forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);
8:52that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant,
and to the supplication of your people Yisra'el, 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
Moshe your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord G-d.
8:54It was so, that when Shlomo had made an end of praying all this
prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the
LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.
8:55He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Yisra'el with a loud
voice, saying,
8:56Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest
to his people Yisra'el, according to all that he promised: there has not
failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moshe his
servant. 8:57The LORD our G-d 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
mitzvot, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he
commanded our fathers. 8:59Let these my
words, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the
LORD our G-d day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and
the cause of his people Yisra'el, as every day shall require;
8:60that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD, he is
G-d; there is none else. 8:61Let your heart
therefore be perfect with the LORD our G-d, to walk in his statutes, and to
keep his mitzvot, as at this day.
8:62The king, and all Yisra'el with him, offered sacrifice before the
LORD. 8:63Shlomo offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he
offered to the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and one hundred twenty
thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Yisra'el dedicated the
house of the LORD.
8:64The same day did the king make the
middle of the court holy 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 receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of
the peace-offerings. 8:65So Shlomo held the
feast at that time, and all Yisra'el with him, a great assembly, from the
entrance of Chamat to the brook of Egypt, before the LORD our G-d, 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 the LORD
had shown to David his servant, and to Yisra'el his people.
9:1It happened, when Shlomo had finished the building of the house of
the LORD, and the king's house, and all Shlomo's desire which he was
pleased to do,
9:2that the LORD appeared to Shlomo the
second time, as he had appeared to him at Giv`on.
9:3The
LORD 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 Yisra'el
forever, according as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall
not fail you a man on the throne of Yisra'el.
9:6But
if you shall turn away from following me, you or your children, and not
keep my mitzvot 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 Yisra'el 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 Yisra'el 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 the LORD done
thus to this land, and to this house?
9:9and
they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their G-d, 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 the LORD brought all
this evil on them.
9:10It happened at the end of twenty
years, in which Shlomo had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and
the king's house
9:11(now Chiram the king of Tzor had
furnished Shlomo with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according
to all his desire), that then king Shlomo gave Chiram twenty cities in the
land of the Galil.
9:12Chiram came out from Tzor to see
the cities which Shlomo 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 Kavul to this day.
9:14Chiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
9:15This is the reason of the levy which king Shlomo raised, to build
the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of
Yerushalayim, and Chatzor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
9:16Par`oh
king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and
slain the Kana`anim who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to
his daughter, Shlomo's wife. 9:17Shlomo built Gezer,
and Beit-Choron the lower, 9:18and Ba`alat, and
Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
9:19and
all the store-cities that Shlomo had, and the cities for his chariots, and
the cities for his horsemen, and that which Shlomo desired to build for his
pleasure in Yerushalayim, and in Levanon, and in all the land of his
dominion. 9:20As for all the people who were left of the Amori, the Chitti, the
Perizzi, the Chivvi, and the Yevusi, who were not of the children of
Yisra'el; 9:21their children who were left after them in the land, whom the
children of Yisra'el were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Shlomo
raise a levy of bondservants to this day.
9:22But
of the children of Yisra'el did Shlomo 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 Shlomo's work, five hundred fifty,
who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
9:24But Par`oh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her
house which Shlomo had built for her: then did he build Millo.
9:25Three times a year did Shlomo offer burnt offerings and
peace-offerings on the altar which he built to the LORD, burning incense
therewith, on the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the
house. 9:26King Shlomo made a navy of ships in `Etzyon-Gever, which is beside
Elot, on the shore of the Sea of Suf, in the land of Edom.
9:27Chiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of
the sea, with the servants of Shlomo.
9:28They
came to Ofir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents,
and brought it to king Shlomo.
10:1When the queen of Sheva heard of the fame of Shlomo concerning the
name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
10:2She came to Yerushalayim with a very great train, with camels that
bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she was come
to Shlomo, she talked with him of all that was in her heart.
10:3Shlomo told her all her questions: there was not anything hidden
from the king which he didn't tell her.
10:4When
the queen of Sheva had seen all the wisdom of Shlomo, 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 the LORD; 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,
and who hear your wisdom. 10:9Blessed be the
LORD your G-d, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Yisra'el:
because the LORD loved Yisra'el 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 Sheva gave to king Shlomo.
10:11The
navy also of Chiram, that brought gold from Ofir, brought in from Ofir
great plenty of almug trees and precious stones.
10:12The
king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the
king's house, harps also and psalteries for the singers: there came no such
almug trees, nor were seen, to this day.
10:13King
Shlomo gave to the queen of Sheva all her desire, whatever she asked,
besides that which Shlomo 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 Shlomo in one year was six hundred
sixty-six talents of gold, 10:15besides that
which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and
of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.
10:16King Shlomo made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred
shekels of gold went to one buckler.
10:17he made three 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 Levanon. 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 Shlomo's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the
house of the forest of Levanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it
was nothing accounted of in the days of Shlomo.
10:22For
the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Chiram: once every
three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory,
and apes, and peacocks. 10:23So king Shlomo
exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
10:24All the earth sought the presence of Shlomo, to hear his wisdom,
which G-d 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.
10:26Shlomo 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 Yerushalayim.
10:27The king made silver to be in Yerushalayim as stones, and cedars
made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
10:28The horses which Shlomo 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 hundred shekels
of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; and so for all the kings of
the Chitti, and for the kings of Aram, did they bring them out by their
means.
11:1Now king Shlomo loved many foreign women, together with the
daughter of Par`oh, women of the Mo`avim, `Ammonim, Edom, Tzidonim, and
Chitti; 11:2of the nations concerning which the LORD said to the children of
Yisra'el, You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you;
for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Shlomo 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 Shlomo was old, that his wives turned away
his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his
G-d, as was the heart of David his father.
11:5For
Shlomo went after `Ashoret the goddess of the Tzidonim, and after Milkom
the abomination of the `Ammonim. 11:6Shlomo did that
which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and didn't go fully after the
LORD, as did David his father. 11:7Then did Shlomo
build a high place for Kemosh the abomination of Mo'av, on the mountain
that is before Yerushalayim, and for Molekh the abomination of the children
of `Ammon. 11:8So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and
sacrificed to their gods. 11:9The LORD was angry
with Shlomo, because his heart was turned away from the LORD, the G-d of
Yisra'el, 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 the LORD commanded.
11:11Therefore the LORD said to Shlomo, 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 Yerushalayim's sake
which I have chosen. 11:14The LORD raised
up an adversary to Shlomo, Chadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in
Edom. 11:15For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Yo'av the captain of
the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom
11:16(for Yo'av and all Yisra'el remained there six months, until he
had cut off every male in Edom); 11:17that Chadad fled,
he and certain Edom of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt,
Chadad being yet a little child. 11:18They arose out of
Midyan, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and
they came to Egypt, to Par`oh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and
appointed him food, and gave him land.
11:19Chadad
found great favor in the sight of Par`oh, so that he gave him as wife the
sister of his own wife, the sister of Tachpenes the queen.
11:20