Solomon

And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, — read the full passage →

And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

And David comforted Bath–sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him.

And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee. — read the full passage →

And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.

And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king’s house: and all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of the Lord, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.

And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.

And Solomon 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 the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.

Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. — read the full passage →

And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king’s house,

Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.

And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.

And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.

And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon 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 not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the Lord hath come.

For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, — read the full passage →

The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

And it came to pass 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 Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord. — read the full passage →

And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.

And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. — read the full passage →

And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: — read the full passage →

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; — read the full passage →

And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the Lord on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch, — read the full passage →

And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her. — read the full passage →

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions. — read the full passage →

And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. — read the full passage →

And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. — read the full passage →

And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. — read the full passage →

And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. — read the full passage →

Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof. — read the full passage →

Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. — read the full passage →

And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdom. — read the full passage →

And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.

And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.

And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest’s office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)

And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.

And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had built,

Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. — read the full passage →

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. — read the full passage →

And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the Lord, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

Then went Solomon to Ezion–geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.

And these were the chief of king Solomon’s officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the Lord, and his own house,

Then said Solomon, The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. — read the full passage →

And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold. — read the full passage →

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.

Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.

And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.

But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, — read the full passage →

And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion. — read the full passage →

And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch. — read the full passage →

And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.

So king Solomon was king over all Israel. — read the full passage →

Then king Solomon sware by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.