48 And Solomon made all the vesChr. 22 14. sels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,

¡Ex.37.10,&c. Ex. 25. Sa Lev. 24. 53.

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•Heb. holy ngs of Durid

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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, 50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.

51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the

12 am 8.11. gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.

of the temple.

out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

B. C. 1004.

Or, ark: as

2 Chr. 5. 9. m Ex. 25. 21. Deut. 10. 2.

9 m There was nothing in the ark "save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, P when Or, where. the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

elders of Israel, and all the heads feb princes of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king 1 Sam. 6. 17. 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.

!! Bam. 5.7. 3.6.12, 16.

n Deut. 10. 5. Heb. 9. 4.

o Ex. 40. 20. p Ex. 34. 27,28. Deut. 4. 13. ver. 21.

10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house Ex. 40. 34.35. of the LORD,

3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

2 Chr. 5. 13, 14. & 7. 2.

12 Then spake Solomon, The 2 Chr.6.1, &c. LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

■ Lev. 16. 2. Ps. 18. 11. & 97. 2.

4 And they brought up the ark of the Ctr. 15. 14, 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 be2 Sum 6. 13. fore the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

19 Sam. 6. 17.

14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congrega- 2 Sam. 6. 18. tion of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood:

15 And he said, y Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

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.

7 For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above. 25.14,158 And they drew out the staves, Heb, heads that the t ends of the staves were seen

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

y Luke 1. 68. z 2 Sam. 7.5, 25.

a 2 Sam. 7. 6. 2 Chr. 6. 5,&c.

b ver. 29. Deut. 12. 11.

1 Sam. 16. 1. 2 Sam. 7. 8. 1 Chr. 28. 4.

d 2 Sam. 7. 2. 1 Chr. 17. 1.

e 2 Chr. 6. 8, 9.

2 Sam. 7. 5,

12, 13.
ch. 5. 3, 5.

20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as 1 Chr. 28.5,6. the LORD promised, and have built a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

h

Deut. 31. 26.

21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of h ver. 9. the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

22 T And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

i2 Chr. 6. 12, &c.

k Ex. 9. 33. Ezra 9. 5. Is. 1. 15.

Solomon's prayer at the

B. C. 1001.

1 Ex. 15. 11. 2 Sam. 7. 22. m Deut. 7. 9. Neh. 1. 5. Dan. 9. 4.

n Gen. 17. 1. ch. 3. 6. 2 Kings 20.3.

o 2 Sam. 7. 12, 16. ch. 2. 4.

shall not be cut off unto thee a man from my sight.

23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, 'there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that "walk before thee with all their heart:

24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, say+ Heb. There ing, + There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me. 26 P And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.

+ Heb. only if. p 2 Sam. 7. 25.

27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:

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: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make ward this place.

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30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray Or, in this toward this place: and hear thou in place. heaven thy dwellingplace: and when thou hearest, forgive.

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31 If any man trespass against his + Heb. and he neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:

require an oath of him, Lev. 5. 1.

x Ex. 22. 11.

and bring them again unto the land B. C. 1004. which thou gavest unto their fathers. 35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwellingplace, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest f1 Sam. 16. 7. the hearts of all the children of men ;)

1 Chr. 28. 9. Ps. 11.4. Jer. 17. 10. Acts 1.

24.

40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which Ps. 180. 4. thou gavest unto our fathers.

41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;

42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and Dent. S. 24. of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house:

43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwellingplace, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that + this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.

1 Sam. 17. 46

2 Kings 19. 19. Ps. 67. 2

Ps. 102. 15,

† Heb. thy

name is called upon this house.

44 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 Heb, the way 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.

of the city.

1 Or, right.

Prov. 20. 9. Ecc. 7. 20. James S. 2

46 If they sin against thee, (for there 12 Chr. 6. 36. is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them

1 John 1. &

10.

The prayer of Solomon.

B. C. 1004.

+ Hob, bring

heart.

44. Deut. 28. 96, 64.

away captives "unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

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47 Yet if they shall bethink themback to theirselves in the land whither they were Lev. 3. 34. 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;

a Lev. 26. 40. Neh. 1.6. Ps. 106. 6. Dan. 9. 5.

48 And so Preturn unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwellingplace, 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 them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, 'from the midst of the furnace of iron:

52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.

53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, "as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.

His peace offerings.

59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require : 60 That all the people of the earthb may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.

61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.

63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

B. C. 1004.

+ Heb the thing of a day in his day.

Josh. 4. 24.

1 Sam. 17. 46. 2 Kings 19.

19.

e Deut. 4. 35, 39.

d ch. 11. 4. & 15. 3, 14. 2 Kings 20.3.

e 2 Chr. 7. 4, &c.

64 The same day did the king hallow f 2 Chr. 7.7. the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar that was be- g 2 Chr. 4.1. fore the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. 65 And at that time Solomon held a hver. 2. 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.

his hands spread up to heaven.

55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

56 Blessed be the LORD, that hath Det 12.10. given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there Hejallen. hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

: Dent 31. 6. Josh. 1. 5.

Pa. 119. 36.

57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:

58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

CHAPTER IX.

ents of Solomon and Hiram. 15 The houses and cities built by Solomon. 20 Bondservice levied by him upon the Canaanites, but not on the Israelites. 25 His solemn sacrifices thrice a year 26 His navy fetcheth gold from Ophir.

AND it came to pass, when Solo

mon 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,

Lev. 23. 34.

i Num. 34. 8. Josh. 13. 5. Judg. 3. 3. 2 Kings 14. 25.

k Gen. 15. 18. Num. 34. 5.

Or, thanked. 12 Chr. 7. 8.

m 2 Chr. 7. 9, 10.

about 992.

a 2 Chr. 7. 11, &c.

b ch. 7. 1.
c 2 Chr. 8. 6.

m Deut. 4. 26. 2 Kings 17. 23. & 25. 21.

" Jer. 7. 14.

Ps. 44. 14.

p 2 Chr. 7. 21.

5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

6 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;

n

m

7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my o Deut. 28. 37. sight; °and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people : 8 And Pat this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they q Deut. 29. 24, shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? 9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.

25, 26. Jer. 22. 8, 9.

992.

ch. 6. 37, 38. & 7. 1. 2 Chr. 8.1.

2 Chr. 8. 2.

+ Heb. were not right in his eyes.

t Josh. 19. 27.

I That is, Displeasing, or, Dirty.

u ch. 5. 13.

x ver. 24. 2 Sam. 5. 9. y Josh, 19. 36.

Josh. 17. 11. about 992.

a Josh. 16. 10. Judg. 1. 29.

b Josh. 16. 10.

10 T 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,

11(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him

not.

Solomon's cities and navy.

a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.

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17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,

d

18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

B. C. about 992.

e Josh. 16. 3. & 21. 22. 2 Chr. 8. 5. d Josh. 19. 44. 2 Chr. 8. 4,6, &c.

19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his char-ch. 4. 26. iots, and cities for his horsemen, and + that which Solomon 'desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

+ Heb. the desire of Solomon which he desired.

g2 Chr. 8. 7, &c.

20 And all the people that were left ver. 1. of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,

27, 29. & 3. 1. i Josh. 15, 63. & 17. 12.

21 Their children that were left Judg. 1. 21. after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of1 bondservice unto this day.

m

Judg. 1. 28. See Gen. 9.

25, 26. Ezra 2. 55, 58, Net. 7. 57. & 11. 3. m Lev. 25. 30.

22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon " make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. 23 These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, "five hundred and fifty, which baren See 2 Chr. &. rule over the people that wrought in the work.

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

CHAPTER X.

The queen of Sheba admireth the wisdom of Solomon. 14 Solomon's gold and the use made of it. 24 The presents received by him. 26 His chariots and horse

men.

Solomon's wealth and wisdom.

B. C.

chantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and 'of all the kings about 992. of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.

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

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

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

|| Or, captains. 12 Chr. 9. 24. Ps. 72. 10.

m ch. 14. 26.

n ch. 7. 2.

&c.

18 Moreover, the king made a 2 Chr. 9. 17, great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

hinder part thereof.

19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round + behind: Heb. on the and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions + Heb, hands. stood beside the stays.

20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not † the like+ Heb. so. made in any kingdom.

&c.

Il Or, there was no silver in them.

21 ¶ P And all king Solomon's drink-P2 Chr. 9. 20, ing vessels 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 nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. 22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

23 Soking Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.

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

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

t

and

q Gen. 10. 4. 2 Chr. 20, 36.

||Or,elephants teeth.

r ch. 3. 12, 13. & 4. 30.

+Heb. sought the face of.

2 Chr. 1. 14.

& 9. 25.

t Deut. 17. 16.

26 And Solomon gathered to- ch. 4. 26. gether chariots and horsemen he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.

u 2 Chr. 1. 1517.

27" And the king made silver tot Heb. gave. be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the vale, for abun- Deut. 17, 16. dance.

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

2 Chr. 1. 16. & 9, 28.

Heb. And the going forth of the horses which

was Solomon's.