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2:1 And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and
 an house for his kingdom.
2:2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens,
 and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six
 hundred to oversee them.
2:3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal
 with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to
 dwell therein, even so deal with me.
2:4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate
 it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual
 showbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the
 sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our
 God.  This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
2:5 And the house which I build is great:  for great is our God above
 all gods.
2:6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of
 heavens cannot contain him?  who am I then, that I should build him an
 house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
2:7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and
 in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can
 skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in
 Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
2:8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: 
 for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and,
 behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
2:9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance:  for the house which I am about
 to build shall be wonderful great.
2:10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber,
 twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of
 barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of
 oil.
2:11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to
 Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king
 over them.
2:12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made
 heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with
 prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an
 house for his kingdom.
2:13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram
 my father's,
2:14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man
 of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in
 stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in
 crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device
 which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men
 of my lord David thy father.
2:15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which
 my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
2:16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need:  and
 we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it
 up to Jerusalem.
2:17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of
 Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them;
 and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and
 six hundred.
2:18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of
 burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three
 thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.

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3:1 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.
3:2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the
 fourth year of his reign.
3:3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the
 building of the house of God.  The length by cubits after the first measure
 was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
3:4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it
 was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height
 was an hundred and twenty:  and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
3:5 And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he overlaid with
 fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
3:6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty:  and the
 gold was gold of Parvaim.
3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof,
 and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
3:8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to
 the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty
 cubits:  and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred
 talents.
3:9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold.  And he
 overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
3:10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and
 overlaid them with gold.
3:11 And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long:  one wing of
 the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house:  and
 the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the
 other cherub.
3:12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the
 wall of the house:  and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to
 the wing of the other cherub.
3:13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: 
 and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
3:14 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine
 linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits
 high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five
 cubits.
3:16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of
 the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the
 chains.
3:17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand,
 and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand
 Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

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4:1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof,
 and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
4:2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in
 compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits
 did compass it round about.
4:3 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round
 about:  ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about.  Two rows of oxen
 were cast, when it was cast.
4:4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three
 looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three
 looking toward the east:  and the sea was set above upon them, and all
 their hinder parts were inward.
4:5 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like
 the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received
 and held three thousand baths.
4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the
 left, to wash in them:  such things as they offered for the burnt offering
 they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
4:7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set
 them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the
 right side, and five on the left.  And he made an hundred basins of gold.
4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and
 doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
4:10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the
 south.
4:11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins.  And Huram
 finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of
 God;
4:12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which
 were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two
 pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
4:13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of
 pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters
 which were upon the pillars.
4:14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
4:15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their
 instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the
 LORD of bright brass.
4:17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground
 between Succoth and Zeredathah.
4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance:  for the weight
 of the brass could not be found out.
4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the
 golden altar also, and the tables whereon the showbread was set;
4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after
 the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
4:21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and
 that perfect gold;
4:22 And the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers, of
 pure gold:  and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the
 most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of
 gold.

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5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was
 finished:  and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father
 had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put
 he among the treasures of the house of God.
5:2 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 Jerusalem,
 to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David,
 which is Zion.
5:3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in
 the feast which was in the seventh month.
5:4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
5:5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and
 all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests
 and the Levites bring up.
5:6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were
 assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could
 not be told nor numbered for multitude.
5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his
 place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under
 the wings of the cherubims:
5:8 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark,
 and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
5:9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves
 were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. 
 And there it is unto this day.
5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put
 therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of
 Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy
 place:  (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and
 did not then wait by course:
5:12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of
 Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in
 white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end
 of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with
 trumpets: )
5:13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to
 make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they
 lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of
 music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy
 endureth for ever:  that then the house was filled with a cloud, even
 the house of the LORD;
5:14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud:
  for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

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6:1 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick
 darkness.
6:2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy
 dwelling for ever.
6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of
 Israel:  and all the congregation of Israel stood.
6:4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his
 hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David,
 saying,
6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I
 chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my
 name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people
 Israel:
6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have
 chosen David to be over my people Israel.
6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the
 name of the LORD God of Israel.
6:8 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart
 to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine
 heart:
6:9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall
 come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
6:10 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken:  for I
 am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of
 Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the
 LORD God of Israel.
6:11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD,
 that he made with the children of Israel.
6:12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the
 congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
6:13 For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five
 cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the
 court:  and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all
 the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,
6:14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the
 heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and showest mercy unto
 thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
6:15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou
 hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with
 thine hand, as it is this day.
6:16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my
 father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee
 a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy
 children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked
 before me.
6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou
 hast spoken unto thy servant David.
6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?  behold, heaven
 and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house
 which I have built!
6:19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his
 supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which
 thy servant prayeth before thee:
6:20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the
 place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to
 hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.
6:21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy
 people Israel, which they shall make toward this place:  hear thou from thy
 dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
6:22 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to
 make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
6:23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by
 requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by
 justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
6:24 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because
 they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and
 pray and make supplication before thee in this house;
6:25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people
 Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to
 their fathers.
6:26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have
 sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy
 name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
6:27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of
 thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they
 should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy
 people for an inheritance.
6:28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be
 blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege
 them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness
 there be:
6:29 Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any
 man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore
 and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
6:30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render
 unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for
 thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men: )
6:31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in
 the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
6:32 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel,
 but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty
 hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;
6:33 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do
 according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of
 the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel,
 and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
6:34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou
 shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast
 chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;
6:35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication,
 and maintain their cause.
6:36 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,)
 and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies,
 and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
6:37 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried
 captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity,
 saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
6:38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in
 the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and
 pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward
 the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built
 for thy name:
6:39 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their
 prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy
 people which have sinned against thee.
6:40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine
 ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
6:41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the
 ark of thy strength:  let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with
 salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
6:42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed:  remember the
 mercies of David thy servant.

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7:1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from
 heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory
 of the LORD filled the house.
7:2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the
 glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.
7:3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the
 glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to
 the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD,
 saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
7:4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen,
 and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep:  so the king and all the people
 dedicated the house of God.
7:6 And the priests waited on their offices:  the Levites also with
 instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise
 the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by
 their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all
 Israel stood.
7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the
 house of the LORD:  for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of
 the peace offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was
 not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the
 fat.
7:8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel
 with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto
 the river of Egypt.
7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly:  for they kept the
 dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the
 people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that
 the LORD had showed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
7:11 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.
7:12 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.
7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts
 to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and
 pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear
 from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
7:15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that
 is made in this place.
7:16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be
 there for ever:  and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
7:17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father
 walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt
 observe my statutes and my judgments;
7:18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have
 covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man
 to be ruler in Israel.
7:19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which
 I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
7:20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have
 given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I
 cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among
 all nations.
7:21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one
 that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto
 this land, and unto this house?
7:22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their
 fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold
 on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them:  therefore hath he
 brought all this evil upon them.

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8:1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had
 built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
8:2 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them,
 and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
8:3 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which
 he built in Hamath.
8:5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced
 cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
8:6 And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the
 chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon
 desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land
 of his dominion.
8:7 As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the
 Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which
 were not of Israel,
8:8 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.
8:9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work;
 but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his
 chariots and horsemen.
8:10 And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two
 hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
8:11 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.
8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the
 LORD, which he had built before the porch,
8:13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the
 commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the
 solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened
 bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the
 courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges,
 to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day
 required:  the porters also by their courses at every gate:  for so had
 David the man of God commanded.
8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests
 and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation
 of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished.  So the house of the
 LORD was perfected.
8:17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the
 land of Edom.
8:18 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.

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9:1 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.
9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions:  and there was nothing hid from
 Solomon which he told her not.
9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the
 house that he had built,
9:4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the
 attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and
 their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the
 LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
9:5 And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine
 own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
9:6 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen
 it:  and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not
 told me:  for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
9:7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand
 continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
9:8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his
 throne, to be king for the LORD thy God:  because thy God loved Israel,
 to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do
 judgment and justice.
9:9 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.
9:10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which
 brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
9:11 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.
9:12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever
 she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king.  So she
 turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.
9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred
 and threescore and six talents of gold;
9:14 Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought.  And all the kings
 of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold:  six
 hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
9:16 And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold:  three hundred
 shekels of gold went to one shield.  And the king put them in the house
 of the forest of Lebanon.
9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with
 pure gold.
9:18 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold,
 which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting
 place, and two lions standing by the stays:
9:19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the
 six steps.  There was not the like made in any kingdom.
9:20 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.
9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: 
 every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and
 silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
9:22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and
 wisdom.
9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear
 his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
9:24 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.
9:25 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.
9:26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of
 the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made
 he as the sycamore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
9:28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all
 lands.
9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not
 written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah
 the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son
 of Nebat?
9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of
 David his father:  and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

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10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem:  for to Shechem were all Israel come to
 make him king.
10:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in
 Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard
 it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
10:3 And they sent and called him.  So Jeroboam and all Israel came and
 spake to Rehoboam, saying,
10:4 Thy father made our yoke grievous:  now therefore ease thou somewhat
 the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon
 us, and we will serve thee.
10:5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days.  And the
 people departed.
10:6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before
 Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to
 return answer to this people?
10:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and
 please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for
 ever.
10:8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel
 with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.
10:9 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to
 this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that
 thy father did put upon us?
10:10 And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him,
 saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy
 father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us;
 thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my
 father's loins.
10:11 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to
 your yoke:  my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you
 with scorpions.
10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as
 the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.
10:13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the
 counsel of the old men,
10:14 And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father
 made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto:  my father chastised you with
 whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
10:15 So the king hearkened not unto the people:  for the cause was of God,
 that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah
 the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
10:16 And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them,
 the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David?  and
 we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse:  every man to your tents, O
 Israel:  and now, David, see to thine own house.  So all Israel went to
 their tents.
10:17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah,
 Rehoboam reigned over them.
10:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the
 children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died.  But king Rehoboam
 made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
10:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.

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11:1 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of
 Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which
 were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom
 again to Rehoboam.
11:2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
11:3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all
 Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
11:4 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your
 brethren:  return every man to his house:  for this thing is done of me. 
 And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against
 Jeroboam.
11:5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.
11:6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
11:7 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
11:8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
11:9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
11:10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in
 Benjamin fenced cities.
11:11 And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store
 of victual, and of oil and wine.
11:12 And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them
 exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
11:13 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to
 him out of all their coasts.
11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to
 Judah and Jerusalem:  for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from
 executing the priest's office unto the LORD:
11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils,
 and for the calves which he had made.
11:16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their
 hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto
 the LORD God of their fathers.
11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son
 of Solomon strong, three years:  for three years they walked in the way of
 David and Solomon.
11:18 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of
 David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
11:19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.
11:20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him
 Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives
 and his concubines:  (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore
 concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters. )
11:22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler
 among his brethren:  for he thought to make him king.
11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all
 the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city:  and he gave
 them victual in abundance.  And he desired many wives.

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12:1 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had
 strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with
 him.
12:2 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak
 king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed
 against the LORD,
12:3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen:  and
 the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the
 Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
12:4 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to
 Jerusalem.
12:5 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of
 Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and
 said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore
 have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
12:6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and
 they said, The LORD is righteous.
12:7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the
 LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I
 will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath
 shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service,
 and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the
 treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house;
 he took all:  he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had
 made.
12:10 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed
 them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of
 the king's house.
12:11 And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came
 and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.
12:12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him,
 that he would not destroy him altogether:  and also in Judah things went
 well.
12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned:  for
 Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he
 reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen
 out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there.  And his mother's
 name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
12:14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in
 the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning
 genealogies?  And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
 continually.
12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
 David:  and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

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13:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over
 Judah.
13:2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem.  His mother's name also was
 Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.  And there was war between Abijah
 and Jeroboam.
13:3 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war,
 even four hundred thousand chosen men:  Jeroboam also set the battle in
 array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty
 men of valour.
13:4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim,
 and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
13:5 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over
 Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of
 salt?
13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David,
 is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
13:7 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and
 have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when
 Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
13:8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of
 the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you
 golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
13:9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and
 the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of
 other lands?  so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young
 bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no
 gods.
13:10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him;
 and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and
 the Levites wait upon their business:
13:11 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt
 sacrifices and sweet incense:  the showbread also set they in order upon
 the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn
 every evening:  for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have
 forsaken him.
13:12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his
 priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you.  O children of
 Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not
 prosper.
13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them:  so they
 were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
13:14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and
 behind:  and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the
 trumpets.
13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout:  and as the men of Judah shouted,
 it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and
 Judah.
13:16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah:  and God delivered them
 into their hand.
13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter:  so there
 fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
13:18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the
 children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their
 fathers.
13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel
 with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain
 with the towns thereof.
13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: 
 and the LORD struck him, and he died.
13:21 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty
 and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings,
 are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

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14:1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of
 David:  and Asa his son reigned in his stead.  In his days the land was
 quiet ten years.
14:2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his
 God:
14:3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places,
 and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
14:4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do
 the law and the commandment.
14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and
 the images:  and the kingdom was quiet before him.
14:6 And he built fenced cities in Judah:  for the land had rest, and he had
 no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.
14:7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about
 them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before
 us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he
 hath given us rest on every side.  So they built and prospered.
14:8 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah
 three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew
 bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand:  all these were mighty men of
 valour.
14:9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a
 thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.
14:10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the
 valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
14:11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing
 with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: 
 help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against
 this multitude.  O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against
 thee.
14:12 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the
 Ethiopians fled.
14:13 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: 
 and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves;
 for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they
 carried away very much spoil.
14:14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the
 LORD came upon them:  and they spoiled all the cities; for there was
 exceeding much spoil in them.
14:15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels
 in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.