Jer. 31. 20. Cp. Isai. 49. 15. 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 b Gen. 43.30. the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, Oh my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine; 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 judgement which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgement. c ver. 9, 11, Cp. Ezra 7. 12. 25. d 1 Chr. 6. 10. & 20. 24. fch. 2. 35. 4 1 And king Solomon was king over all Israel. 2 And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; 3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the e2 Sam.8.16 Sons of Shisha, 1scribes; Jehosha phat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; 4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; 5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was 3 priest, and the king's friend; 6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over g 2 Sam. 20. Cp. 2 Sam. 15. 37 & 16. 16 & 1 Chr. 27. 33. jch. 5. 14. 18 & 2 Sam. 20. 24 & 2 Chr. 10. 18. k Cp. ch. 9. 15. ¿See Josh. 24. 33. 8 *the levy. 7 And Solomon had Cp. ch. 12. twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year. 8 And these are their names: Ben-hur, in 'the hill country of Ephraim: 9 Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan: 10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth; to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher: Josh. 11.2. II Ben-abinadab, in all the 5m height of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: 12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in "Taanach and Megiddo, and all "Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam: 13 Bengeber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; even to him pertained the Cp. Josh. 17. 11. o Cp. ch. 22. 3. Num. 32. 41. q Deut. 3. 4. 6 region of Argob, which is in Bashan, Deut. 3. 8-10. and he was the only officer which was in the land. 20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand Gen.22.17. which is by the sea in multitude, Chr. Cp. 3. 8 eating and drinking and making 1.9. merry. [Ch. 5. 1 in hr u 2 Chr. 9. 26. v Gen. 15. 18. Ex. 23. 31. Josh. 1. 4. P. 72. 8. w Ps. 68. 29 & 72. 10, 11. 19. yl Chr. 21" And Solomon ruled over all the 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. 22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty 10 measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal; 23 ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl. 24 For he had dominion over all the region 11 on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the Gen. 10. kings 11 on this side the River: "and he had peace 12 on all sides round about him. 25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, "every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. 26 And Solomon had 18 forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. 27 And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they let nothing be lacking. 28 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift dEsth. 8. steeds brought they unto the place Mic. 1. 13. 14 where the officers were, every man according to his charge. 29 And God gave Solomon wis dom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. 2 Or, chronicler 3 Or, chief minister See 2 Sam. 8. 18. 4 Or, Naphath-dor 5 Or, region 6 Or, over against 7 Or, Havroth-jair 8 Or, in Aloth 9 Heb. and one officer. 10 Heb. cor. 11 Or, beyond the River 12 Some authorities read, with all his servants. 13 In 2 Chr. 9. 25, four thousand. 14 Or, where he (that is, the king) was Or, where it should be 1 Or, secretaries 14-17. i Prov. 1. 1. Eccles. 12. 9. i S. of S. 1. 1. k2 Chr. 9. 23. Cp. ch. 10. 1. [Ch. 5. 15 in Heb.] 1 Cp. 2 Chr. 2.3. m2 Sam. 5. 1 Chr. 14. 1. 11. * For ver. 8-11, see 2 Chr. 2.3-16. & 28.3. 24 & 1 Chr. 22.9. 92 Sam. 7. 13. 1 Chr. 17. 12 & 22.10 & 29. 6. e the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations round about. 32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. 33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. 34 And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom. 1 And 'Hiram king of Tyre 5 sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: "for Hiram was ever a lover of David. 2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, 3"Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house for the 1 Chr. 22.8 name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet. Cp. ch. 4. 4o But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary, nor evil occurrent. 5 And, behold, I purpose to build an house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build the house for my name. 6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants; and I will give thee hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt say: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Zidonians. 7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people. 8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard the message which thou hast 1 Or, cypress r Cp. Ezra 3.7 & Ezek. 27. sent unto me: I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of 1 fir. 9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and thou shalt 2receive them and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household. 10 So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire. 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of 5 pure oil thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. 12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; sch. 3. 12. and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together. 8 : 17 & Acts 12. 20. 13 And king Solomon raised a tch. 4.6 levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: "and Adoniram u See ch. was over the levy. 15 And Solomon had "threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains; 16 besides Solomon's w chief officers that were over the w ch. 4. 5. work, three thousand and three hundred, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work. 17 And the king commanded, and they "hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone. 18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did Josh. 13.5. fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house. 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 Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Acts 7.47. the LORD. 2° And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore 2 Or, carry them away 3 Heb. Hirom, and in ver. 18. 4 Heb. cor. 5 Or, beaten 6 Or, brought away 7 Heb. built. c 2 Chr. 3. 3, 4. See Ezek. ch. 40-42. 16 d Ezek. 40. &41. 16, 26. Ezek. 41.6. ƒver. 16, 19, 20, 23, 31. ch. 7. 49 & 8. 6, 8. 2 Chr. 3. 16 & 4.20 & 5. 7, 9. Ps. 28. 2. g ch. 7. 3 (mg.). Ezek. 41. 5, 6. 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 dhe made 2 windows of fixed lattice-work. 5 And against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made side-chambers round about: 6 the nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad for on the outside he made rebatements in the wall of the house round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house. 7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry: and 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 5 middle sidechambers was in the right side of the house and they went up by winding stairs into the middle chambers, and out of the middle into the i ver. 14, 38. third. 9'So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar. 10 And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar. h ch. 5. 18. Deut. 27. 5, 6. j ch. 9. 4. Cp.ch. 2. 4. * 2 Sam. 7. 13. 1 Chr. 22. 1 Ex. 25. 8. m Deut. 31. 6, 8. n ver. 9, 38. II And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying, 12 Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgements, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with thee, * which I spake unto David thy father. 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; from the floor of the house unto the walls of the 12 r r & 8. 6. Ex. 26. 33, 34. 2 Chr. 3. 8. Ezek. 45.3. Heb. 9. 3. ch. 7. 24. cieling, he covered them on the inside with wood and he covered ocp.ch.7.7. the floor of the house with boards of 10 fir. 16 And he built twenty p2 Chr. 3. 8. cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the 11 walls: he even built them for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place. ch.7.50 17 And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long. 18 And there was cedar on the house within, carved with 27 knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. 19 And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 20 And within the oracle was a space of twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold: 18 and he covered the altar with cedar. 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. 22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold. 23'And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, 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 form. 26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. 27 And he set the cherubim within the inner house : "and the wings of the cherubim ch. 8. 7. were stretched forth, 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. 28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold. 29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved 1 That is, the holy place. 2 Or, windows broad within, and narrow without. 3 That is, the most holy place. 4 Or, when it was brought away 3 The Sept. and Targum have, lowest. 6 Heb. shoulder. 7 Heb. rows. 8 Or, he fastened the house 9 Or, both the floor of the house and the walls &c. and so ver. 16. 10 Or, cypress 11 The Sept. has, beams. 12 Or, gourds 13 Or, he overlaid the altar also, which was of cedar Ex. 30. 1,3, 6. For ver. 23-27, see 2 Chr. 8.10-12. 7-9. u Ex. 37. Ex. 25. 20 & 37. 9. 2 Chr. 5. & figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, within and without. 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 wood: the lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall. 32 So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm trees. 33 So also made he for the entering of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part of the wall; 34 and two doors Cp. Ezek. of fir wood; "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 he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work. 36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn 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 Ziv. 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. 41.24. 7 ch. 7. 12. ver. 1. 2 ch. 3. 1 a ch. 10. 17, 21. I And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. 2 For he built a the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an 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 over the forty and five 46 beams, that were upon the pillars; fifteen in a row. 4 And there were 5 prospects in three rows, and light was over against light in three ranks. 5 And all the doors and posts were square in prospect: and light was over against light in eCp. ver. 12. three ranks. 6 And he made the porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth 6 ch. 6. 5 1 Or, posts 2 Or, cypress ac 2 Chr. 8, 11. thereof thirty cubits; and a porch 2. 14. 31. 3-5 & 35. 31. 15-21. see 2 Chr. 3. 15-17. m 2 Kin. 25. 17. 1 Chr. 18. 8. 2 Chr. 4. 12. 13 And king Solomon sent and fetched 'Hiram out of Tyre. 14 He Cp. 2 Chr. was the son of a widow woman of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wis- & Cp. Ex. dom and understanding and cunning, to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work. 15 For he 1 For ver. fashioned the two pillars of brass, 10 of "eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either of them about. 16 And he made two chapiters of Jer. 52. 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 There were 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 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters 3 Or, with all the appurtenances thereof, and with all the ordinances thereof 4 Or, side-chambers Heb. ribs. 5 Or, beams 6 Or, were made square with beams 7 Or, a threshold 8 Or, after divers measures 9 Or, both for... and for 10 Heb. eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar. 11 Heb. the other pillar. 21-23. n ver. 41. & 2 Chr. 3. 16 & 4. 13 & Jer. 52. 23. p 2 Chr. 3. 17. 9 For ver. 25-26, see 2 Chr. 4.2-5. r2 Kin. 16. 17 & 25. 13. 1 Chr. 18. 8. Cp. Ex. 30. 18. s Cp. ch. 6. 18. that were upon the top of the 1pillars and so did he for the other chapiter. 19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits. 20 And there were chapiters above also upon the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network and the pomegranates o Cp. ver. 42 were two hundred, in rows round about upon the other chapiter. 21P And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof 2 Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz. 22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished. 23 And he made "the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round Jer. 52. 17. about. 24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops which did compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about the knops were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 25 It stood t Jer. 52. 20. 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 upon them above, and all their hinder parts were inward. 26 And it was an hand breadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths. 27 And he made the "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 there were borders between the ledges: 29 and on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the ledges 7there was a pedestal above: and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. 30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and axles of brass and the four feet thereof had undersetters: beneath the laver were the underset 13. u 2 Kin. 25. 2 Chr. 4.14. Jer. 52. 17. ters molten, with wreaths at the side of each. 31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: and the mouth thereof was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and an half and also upon the mouth of it were gravings, and their borders were foursquare, not round. 32 And the four wheels were underneath the borders; and the axletrees of the wheels were in the base: and the height 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 felloes, and their spokes, and their naves, were all molten. 34 And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base: the undersetters thereof were of the 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 stays thereof and the borders thereof were of the same. 36 And on the plates of the stays thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about. 37 After this manner he made "the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form. 38 And he made "ten 2 Chr. 4. 6. lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits and upon every one of the ten bases one laver. 39 And he set the bases, five on the right 10 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, toward the south. 40 9 : Cp. Ex. 30. 18. 40-51, x Ex. 27. 3 w And 11 Hiram made the 12 la- w For ver. vers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of the LORD: 41 the two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two y ver. 17, 18. bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the pillars; 42 and the 2 four hundred pomegranates for zCp. ver. 20. the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the chapi 1 So some ancient authorities. The text has, pomegranates. 2 That is, He shall establish. 3 That is, perhaps, In it is strength. 4 Or, ten in a cubit 5 Or, panels (and so in ver. 29, &c.). 6 Or, even borders 7 Or, it was in like manner above 8 Heb. shoulders. 9 Heb. hands. 11 Heb. Hirom. 12 Many ancient authorities read, pots. 10 Heb. shoulder. |