Solomon's wisdom.

CHAP. V, VI.

God's promise to him 29 T And God gave Solomon wisdom and un- 16 Besides the chief of Solomon's officers which derstanding exceeding much, and largeness of were over the work, three thousand and three hunheart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore. dred, which ruled over the people that wrought 30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom in the work. of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.

32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

18 And Solomon's builders, and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stone-squarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. CHAP. VI.

Building of Solomon's temple

33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar-tree that ND it came to pass in the four hundred and is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth eightieth year after the children of Israe! out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month 34 And there came of all people to hear the Zif, which is the second month, that he began wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, to build the house of the LORD. which had heard of his wisdom.

CHAP. V.

Hiram congratulateth Solomon.

AND Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.

2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, 3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build a house unto the name of the LORD his God, for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.

2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cu bits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof, before the house. 4 And for the house he made windows of nar row lights.

5 ¶ And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the 4 But now the LORD my God hath given me oracle: and he made chambers round about. rest on every side, so that there is neither ad- 6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits versary nor evil occurrent. broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and 5 And behold, I purpose to build a house unto the third was seven cubits broad: for without the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son round about, that the beams should not be fastwhom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he ened in the walls of the house. shall build a house unto my name.

7 And the house, when it was in building, was

6 Now therefore command thou, that they hew built of stone made ready before it was brought me cedar-trees out of Lebanon; and my ser- thither: so that there was neither hammer nor vants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house, will I give hire for thy servants according to all while it was in building.

that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that 8 The door for the middle chamber was in the there is not among us any that can skill to hew right side of the house: and they went up with timber like unto the Sidonians. winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

7 ¶ And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and co said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath vered the house with beams and boards of cedar. given unto David a wise son over this great people. 10. And then he built chambers against all the 8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have house, five cubits high and they rested on the considered the things which thou sentest to me house with timber of cedar. for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber 11 1 And the word of the LORD came to Solo of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. mon, saying,

9 My servants shall bring them down from Leba- 12 Concerning this house which thou art in RO unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, execute my judgments, and keep all my comand will cause them to be discharged there, and mandments to walk in them; then will I per thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accom-form my word with thee, which I spake unto plish my desire, in giving food for my household. David thy father: 10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar-trees and firtrees according to all his desire.

11 And Solomon 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.

12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.

13 T And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14 And he 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 levy.

13 And will dwell among the children of Is rael, and will not forsake my people Israel. 14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it 15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. 16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place. 17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; 15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thou- there was no stone seen. sand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand 19 And the oracle he prepared in the house with hewers in the mountains; in, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD

Ornaments and utensils.

CHAP. VIII.

Finishing of the temple 28 And the work of the bases was on this man- of the inner house, the most holy place, and for ner: They had borders, and the borders were the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple. between the ledges: 51 So was ended all the work that king Solo

29 And on the borders that were between the mon made for the house of the LORD. And ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and Solomon brought in the things which David his upon the ledges there was a base above: and father had dedicated even the silver, and the beneath the lions and oxen were certain addi- gold, and the vessels, did he put among the tions made of thin work. treasures of the house of the LORD. CHAP. VIII.

Solemn dedication of the temple.

THEN

30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersettersHEN Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, molten, at the side of every addition. and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of 31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up round after the work of the base, a cubit and a the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the half: and also upon the mouth of it were gra- city of David, which is Zion. vings with their borders, four-square, not round. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled them32 And under the borders were four wheels; selves unto king Solomon at the feast in the and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the and half a cubit. priests took up the ark. 4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. 5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark,sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. 6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.

33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten. 34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.

35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.

36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm-trees, according to the propor- 7 For the cherubims spread forth their two tion of every one, and additions round about. wings over the place of the ark, and the cheru37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of bims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. them had one casting, one measure, and one size. 8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends 38 1 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one of the staves were seen out in the holy place laver_contained forty baths: and every laver before the oracle, and they were not seen withwas four cubits: and upon every one of the ten out: and there they are unto this day.

bases one laver.

9 There was nothing in the ark save the two ta39 And he put five bases on the right side of the bles of stone, which Moses put there atHoreb, when house, and five on the left side of the house: and the LORD made a covenant with the children of he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, over against the south.

40 ¶ And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:

Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. 10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,

11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the 41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the cha-LORD had filled the house of the LORD. piters that were on the top of the two pillars; and 12 ¶ Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that the two net-works, to cover the two bowls of the he would dwell in the thick darkness. chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; 13 I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, 42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two a settled place for thee to abide in for ever. net-works, even two rows of pomegranates for one net-work, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;

14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood;

43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; 15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, 44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; which spake with his mouth unto David my fa45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the bather, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, *sins and all these vessels which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.

46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay-ground between Succoth and Zarthan. 47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.

48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,

16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

18 And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart. 19 Nevertheless, thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name. 20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of Da50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the ba- vid my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as sins, and the spoons, and the censers of pure the LORD promised, and have built a house for gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors the name of the LORD God of Israel

49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,

and his blessing. 21 And I have set there a place for the ark, (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he all the children of men ;) made with our fathers, when he brought thein out of the land of Egypt.

40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto ourfathers. 22 1 And Solomon stood before the altar of the 41 Moreover, concerning a stranger, that is not LORD in the presence of all the congregation of of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: country for thy name's sake; 23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no 42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth be- of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched-out arm;) neath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy when he shall come and pray toward this house; servants that walk before thee with all their heart: 43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and 24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my do according to all that the stranger calleth to father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest thee for: that all people of the earth may know also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; thy hand, as it is this day. and that they may know that this house which have builded is called by thy name. 44 T If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name.

45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 46 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man 27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? be- that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, hold the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carcontain thee; how much less this house that I ry them away captives unto the land of the enehave builded?

47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: 48 And so return unto thee with all their heart, that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which and with all their soul, in the land of their enethy servant shall make toward this place. mies which led them away captive, and pray unto 30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto servant, and of thy people Israel, when they their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in and the house which I have built for thy name: heaven thy dwelling-place: and when thou hearest, forgive.

49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause,

50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give 32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge them compassion before them who carried them thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his captive, that they may have compassion on them: way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, 51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, to give him according to his righteousness. which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from 331 When thy people Israel be smitten down the midst of the furnace of iron: before the enemy, because they have sinned 52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supagainst thee, and shall turn again to thee, and plication of thy servant, and unto the supplica confess thy name, and pray, and make supplica- tion of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them tion unto thee in this house: in all that they call for unto thee.

34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the 53 For thou didst separate them from among al sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, 35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, rain, because they have sinned against thee; if O Lord GOD.

they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, 54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: an end of praying all this prayer and supplica36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the tion unto the LORD, he arose from before the alsm of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that tar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with thou teach them the good way wherein they his hands spread up to heaven. should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which 55 And he stood and blessed all the congregation thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance. of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

37 T If there be in the land famine, if there be 56 Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be his people Israel, according to all that he promised: caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the there hath not failed one word of all his good proland of their cities, whatsoever plague, whatso- mise, which he promised by the hand of Moses ever sickness there be; his servant.