* Gen. 43. 30.

Is. 49. 15. Jer. 31. 20. Hos. 11. 8. + Heb. were hot

I ver. 9, 11, 12 Heb. in the

midst of him.

Or, the chief

officer.

23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.

24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for *her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it she is the mother thereof.

28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king for they saw that the wisdom of God was † in him to do judgment.

CHAPTER IV.

Solomon's princes. 7 His twelve officers for pro

vision. 20 The prosperity and extent of his king, dom. 22 His daily provision. 26 His stables. 29 His wisdom.

The extent of his kingdom.

to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher:

11 The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:

12 Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:

h

13 The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained

i

B. C. 1014.

Or, Ben

abinadab.

Or, Bengeber. Num. 52. 41.

the region of Argob, which is in Ba-i Deut. 3. 4 shan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars:

14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim :

15 Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:

16 Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:

17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar :

18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:

Or, to Mahanaim.

19 Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Deut. S. 8. Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land. 20 ¶ Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and

a

3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Or, secreta-Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.

ries.

|| Or, remembrancer.

a 2 Sam. 8. 16. & 20. 24.

b ch. 2. 35. © See ch. 2. 27. d ver. 7.

e 2 Sam. 8. 18. & 20. 26.

f 2 Sam. 15.37. & 16. 16.

b

4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

5 And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and 'the king's friend:

6 And Ahishar was over the house1 Chr. 27. 33. hold: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.

| Or, levy. g ch. 5. 14.

|| Or, Ben-hur.

Or, Bendekar.

Or, Benhesed.

7 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.

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

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

22 ¶ And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, 23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted fowl.

24 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 the had peace on all sides round about him.

1 Gen. 22. 17. ch, 3. 8. Prov. 14. 28. m Ps. 72. 3, 7. Mic. 4. 4.

n 2 Chr. 9. K. Ps. 72. 8.

Gen. 15, 18

Josh. L. 4.

Ps. 68. 29. & 72 10, 11.

Heb. bread. Heb. cors

That is,

Gaza.

q Ps. 72. 11.

1 Chr. 22.9.

• See Jer. 23. 6.

dently.

25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine con and under his fig tree, "from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

t Mic. 4. 4. Zech. S. 10.

u Judg. 20. 1.

I ch. 10, 28.
2 Chr. 1. 14

& 9. 25.

y See Deut. 17. 16.

z ver. 7.

The building of the temple.

B. C. 1012.

a 2 Chr. 3. 1, 2.

b Acts 7. 47. + Heb. built.

c See Ez. 41. 1, &c.

d See Ez. 40. 16. & 41. 16. Or, windows "broad within, and narrow without: or, skewed and closed.

CHAPTER VI.

The building of Solomon's temple. 5 The chambers thereof. 11 God's promise concerning it. 15 The

ceiling and adorning of the house. 23 The cherubim. 31 The doors. 36 The court. 37 The time spent in building it.

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.

2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, 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 l windows of narrow lights.

5 And against the wall of the house he built et chambers round Or, upon, or, about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle and he made chambers round about.

joining to.

+ Heb. floors. + Heb, ribs. e See Ez. 41.6. f ver. 16, 19, 20, 21, 31.

+ Heb. narrowings, or, rebatements.

g See Deut. 27.5, 6. ch. 5. 18.

+ Heb. shoulder.

1005.

6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house. 7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: + and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

9 So he built the house, and finOr, the vault ished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

beams and the ceilings with cedar. à ver. 14, 38.

4.

10 And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

11

The ornaments of the temple. I

13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, 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.

B. C. 1005.

1 Ex. 25. & Lev. 26. 11. 2 Cor. 6. 16. Rev. 21. S. m Deut. S1. 6. n ver. 38.

Or, from the floor of the house unto the walls, &c. and so ver.

16.

• Ex. 26. 35. Lev. 16. 2. ch. 8. 6. 2 Chr. S. 8. Ez. 45. 3. Heb. 9. S.

18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open! Or, gourds. + Heb. openflowers: all was cedar; there was no ings of flow stone seen.

19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar. 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

23 T And within the oracle he made two cherubim of olive tree, Or, oily. each ten cubits high.

24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one size.

26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the

1 Chr. 22. 10.

k

27 And he set the cherubim within the inner house and they stretch- | Or, the chered forth the wings of the cherubim, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

The ornaments of the temple.

B. C. 1005.

1005

till

992.

ach. 3.10. 4 Car. 2. L

• Heb, riba

• Heb. sight against sight.

Or, spaces

30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.

31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.

32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and topen flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm trees.

33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree," a fourth part of the wall.

34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

35 And he carved thereon cherubim and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:

38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he "seven years in building it.

CHAPTER VII.

The building of Solomon's three houses. 13 For the temple Hiram the workman maketh the two pillars, 23 the molten sex, 27 the ten bases, 38 the ten la vers, 40 and all the utensils.

UT Solomon was building his

Bone thirteen years, and

he finished all his house.

2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.

4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in

ad pillars three ranks.

# Te square in prosport.

5 And all the doors and posts were

ing to them.

II Or, according to them.

7 ¶ 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 + Heb. from the floor to the other.

8 T And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.

9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

floor to floor.

b ch. 3. 1. 2 Chr. 8. 11.

ioned.

15 For he cast two pillars of brass, † Heb, fashof eighteen cubits high apiece and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: 17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.

18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

19 And the chapiters that were upon

h 2 Kings 25. 17. 2 Chr. 3. 15. & 4. 12. Jer. 52. 21.

Of the molten sea, &c.

B. C. 1005.

i See 2 Chr. 3. 16. & 4. 13. Jer. 52. 23.

k 2 Chr. 3. 17. 1 ch. 6. 3.

the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.

20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.

21 And he set up the pillars in 'the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name That is, He thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

shall estab

lish. That is, In it is strength.

22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work so was the work of the m 2 Kings 25. pillars finished.

13. 2 Chr. 4. 2. Jer. 52. 17. + Heb. from his brim to his brim.

n 2 Chr. 4. S.

02 Chr. 4. 4, 5. Jer. 52. 20.

23 And he made ma molten sea, ten cubits + from the one brim to the other it was round all about, and his height was five cubits and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, "compassing the sea round about the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.

25 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.

26 And it was a handbreadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers P See 2 Chr. of lilies: it contained Ptwo thousand baths.

4. 5.

27 ¶ And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges: 29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.

30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.

Of the ten lavers, &c.

B. C. 1005.

base.

32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height Heb, in the of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. 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 cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the † proportion of † Heb. nakedevery one, and additions round about.

37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.

38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.

ness.

q 2 Chr. 4. 6.

+ Heb, shoul der.

39 And he put five bases 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, over against the south. 40 T And Hiram made the lavers, Heb. Hirom. 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:

See ver. 13