Solomon CHAP. VI. praiseth God, but they were not seen without. And my name might be there, and have there it is unto this day. chosen David to be over my people 10 There was nothing in the ark save Israel. the two tables which Moses put there- 7 Now it was in the heart of David in at Horeb, when the Lono made a my father to build a house for the covenant with the children of Israel,[name of the LORD God of Israel: when they came out of Egypt. 8 But the Lono said to David my fa 11 ¶ And it came to pass, when the ther, Forasmuch as it was in thy beart priests were come out of the holy to build a house for my naine, thou place; (for all the priests that were]didet well in that it was in thy heart : present were sanctified, and did not 9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not then wait by course: build the house; but thy son, whicb 12 Also the Levites which were the shall come forth out of thy loins, he singers, all of them of Asaph, of He-shall build the house for my name. man, of Jeduthun, with their sons and 10 The LORD therefore hath perform their brethren, being arrayed in white ed his word that he bath spoken; for linen, having cymbals and psalteries I am risen up in the room of David and harps, stood at the east end of the my father, and am set on the throne of altar, and with them a hundred and Israel, as the Lond promised, and have twenty priests sounding with trum-built the house for the name of the nets;) LORD God of Israel. 13 It came even to pass, as the trum- 11 And in it have I put the ark, peters and singers were as one, to wherein is the covenant of the LORD, make one sound to be heard in prais-that he made with the children of Is ing and thanking the Lond, and when rael. they lifted up their voice with the 12 T And he stood before the altar of trumpets and cymbals and instruments the LORD, in the presence of all the of music, and praised the Lord, say-congregation of Israel, and spread ing, For he is good; for his mercy en-[forth his bands, dureth for ever: that then the house 13 (For Solomon had made a brazen was filled with a cloud, even the house scaffold of fire cubits long, and five of the Lond; 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. CHAP. VI. cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it be stood, and kneeled down upon bis knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven,) THEN said Solomon, The LonD 14 And said, O LORD God cf Israel, The thick darkness. nor in the earth; which keepest cove 2 But I have built a house of habita-nant, and showest mercy unto thy sertion for thee, and a place for tby dwell- vant's that walk before thee with all ing for ever. their hearts : rael stood. 3 And the king turned his face, and 15 Thou which hast kept with thy blessed the whole congregation of Is- servant David my father that which rael: and all the congregation of Is-thou bast promised bim; and spakest with thy mouth, and has fulfilled & 4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD with thy hands, as it is this day, God of Israel, who hath with his hands] 16 Now therefore, O Lono God of fulfilled that which he spake with his Israel, keep with thy servant David mouth to my father David, saying, my father that which thou hast prom5 Since the day that I brought forth fised him, saying, There shall not fail my people out of the land of Egypt, I thee a man in my sight to sit upon the chose no city among all the tribes of Is- throne of Israel; yet so that thy chilrael to build a house in, that my name [dren take heed to their way to walk in might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel: 3 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my law,as thou hast walked before me. 17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David. Solomon's II. CHRONICLES. prayer. 18 But will God in very deed dwell if their enemies besiege them in the with men on the earth? Behold, hea-fcities of their land; whatsoever sore, ven and the heaven of heavens cannot or whatsoever sickness there be: contain thee; how much less this 29 Then what prayer, or what sup house which I have built! plication soever shall be made of any 19 Have respect therefore to the man, or of all thy people Israel, when prayer of thy servant, and to his sup-jevery one shall know his own sore,and plication, O Load my God,to hearken his own grief, and shall spread forth unto the cry and the prayer which thy his hands in this house : servant prayeth before thee: 30 Then hear thou from heaven thy 20 That thine eyes may be open upon dwelling-place, and forgive, and rethis house day and night, upon the der unto every man according unto all place whereof thou hast said, that thou his ways, whose heart thou knowest; i wouldest put thy name there; to heark-|(for thou only knowest the hearts of en unto the prayer which thy servant the children of men;) prayeth toward this place. 31 That they may fear thee, to walk 21 Hearken therefore unto the suppli- in thy ways, so long as they live in the cations of thy servant,and of thy peo-land which thou gavest unto our faple Israel, which they shall make to-thers. ward this place: hear thou from thy 32 T Moreover,concerning the strandwelling-place,even from heaven; and ger, which is not of thy people Israel, when thou hearest, forgive. but is come from a far country for thy 22 ¶ If a man sin against his neigh-great name's sake, and thy mighty bour, and an oath be laid upon him to hand, and thy stretched-out arm, if make him swear, and the oath come they come aud pray in this house: before thine altar in this house: 33 Then hear thou from the heavena 23 Then hear thou from heaven, and even from thy dwelling-place, and do do, and judge thy servants, by requit-according to all that the stranger calling the wicked, by recompensing his eth to thee for; that all people of the way upon his own head; and by justi-earth may know thy name, and fear fying the righteous, oy giving him ac- thee, as doth thy people Israel, and cording to his righteousness. may know that this house, which I 24 T And if thy people Israel be put have built, is called by thy name. to the worse before the enemy,because 34 T 1 thy people go out to war they have sinned against thee; and against their enemies by the way that shall return and confess thy name,and thou shalt send them, and they pray pray and make supplication before thee in this house; unto thee toward this city which thou bast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: 35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Isra el, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them, and to their fathers. 36 T If they sin against thee, (for 26 ¶ When the heaven is shut up, and there is no man which sinneth not,) there is no rain, because they have and thou be angry with them, and desinned against thee; yet if they pray liver them over before their enemies, toward this place, and confess thy and they carry them away captives name, and turn from their sin, when unto a land far off or near; thou dost afflict them: 37 Yet if they bethink themselves in 27 Then hear thou from heaven, and the land whither they are carried capforgive the sin of thy servants, and of tive, and turn and pray unto thee in thy people Israel, when thou hast the land of their captivity, saying, We taught them the good way wherein have sinned, we have done amiss, and they should walk; and send rain upon have dealt wickedly; Eny land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance. 38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the 28 ¶ If there be dearth in the land, if land of their captivity, whither they there be pestilence, if there be blast-have carried them captives, and pray ag, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; toward their land which thou gavest His solemn CHAP. VII. unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name: sucrifice. the peace-offerings,because the brasen alter which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt-offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat. 39 Then hear thou from the heavens, 8 T Also at the saine time Solomon even from thy dwelling-place, their kept the feast seven days, and all Israel prayer and their supplications, and with him, a very great congregation, inaintain their cause, and forgive thy from the entering in of Hamath unto people which have sinned against thee. the river of Egypt. 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. 41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting-place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, 0 LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness. 42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed : remember the mercies of David thy servant. CHAP. VII. when Solomon had made an 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. 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 bis people.. 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 cf Now when Solon, the fire came fected. down from heaven, and consumed the Durnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house. 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. 12 ¶ And the Lono appeared to Sclomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have cho sen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. 13 I 1 shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if 1 command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 3. And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, 14 If my people, which are called by they bowed themselves with their my name, shall humble themselves, faces to the ground upon the pave-and pray, and seek my face, and turn ment, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. from their wicked ways; then will I 41 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD. 5 And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, 16 Foruow have I chosen and sanctiand a hundred and twenty thousand|fied this house, that my name may be sheep. So the king and all the people there for ever: and mine eyes and my dedicated the house of God. heart shall be there perpetually. 6 And the priests waited on their offi-| 17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk ces; the Levites also with instruments before me, as David thy father walked, of music of the LORD, which David and do according to all that I have the king had made to praise the LORD, commanded thee, and shalt observe because his mercy endureth for ever, my statutes and my judgments; when David praised by their ministry; 18 Then will I establish the throne of and the priests sounded trumpets be-thy kingdom according as I have cove fore them, and all Israel stood. Danted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel. 7 Moreover, Solomon ballowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the Load: for there he offered burnt-offerings, and the fat of 19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, Solomon's II. CHRONICLES. buildings. which I have set before you, and shall, chief of his captains, and captains of go and serve other gods, and worship his chariots and horsemen. them ; 10 And these were the chief of king 20 Then will I pluck them up by the Solomon's officers, even two hundred roots out of my land which I have giv and fifty, that bare rule over the peo en them; and this house, which I have|ple. sanctified for my name, will I cast out 11 ¶ And Solomon brought up the of my sight, and will make it to be a daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of proverb and a by-word among all na-David unto the house that he had built tions. for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell inthe house of David kingof Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the Lord hath come. 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 Lono done thus unto this land, and unto this bouse ? 12 T Then Solomon offered burnt22 And it shall be answered, Because offerings unto the LORD on the altar of they forsook the LORD God of their the LORD, which he had built before fathers, which brought them forth out the porch; 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 thein. CHAP. VIII. 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, leven in the feast of unleavened brend, AND it came to pass at the end of and in the feast of weeks, and in the twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house, feast of tabernacles. and 14 T And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the cour2 That the cities which Huram had ses of the priests to their service, restored to Solomon, Solomon built the Levites to their charges, to praise them, and caused the children of Israel and minister before the priests, as the to dwell there. duty of every day required: the por 3 And Solomon went to Hamath-ters also by their courses at every gate 4 And he built Tadmor in the wilmanded. 6 And Baalath, and all the store-cities prepared unto the day of the founda- in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and 17 Then went Solomon to Ezion- 7 TAs for all the people that were 18 And Huram sent him by the hands CHAP. IX. AND when the queen of Sheba 9 But of the children of Israel did heard of the fame of Solomon, Solomon make no servants for his she came to prove Solomon with hard work; but they were men of war, and [questions at Jerusalem, with a very The queen of Sheba CHAP. IX, visiteth him. great company, and camels that bare turned, and went away to her own spices, and gold in abundance, and land, she and her servants. precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon,she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not. 3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built, 4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cup-bearere 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. 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: 13 T Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; 14 Besides that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the coun try brought gold and silver to Solomon. 15 T And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred skekels of beaten gold went to one target. 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. 17 Moreover the king 'nade à great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. and 6 Howbeit I believed not their words, 18 And there were six steps to the until I came, and mine eyes had seen throne, with a footstool of gold,which it and, behold, the one half of the were fastened to the throne,and stays greatness of thy wisdom was not told on each side of the sitting-place, me: for thou exceedest the fame that two lions standing by the stays: I heard. 19 And twelve lions stood there on 7 Happy are thy men, and happy are the one side and on the other upon the There was not the like these thy servants, which stand contin- six steps. ually before thee, and hear thy wis-made in any kingdom. dom. 20 And all the drinking vessels of 8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, king Solomon were of gold,and all the which delighted in thee to set thee on vessels of the house of the forest of his throne, to be king for the LORD Lebanon were of pure gold: none were thy God: because thy God loved Is-of silver; it was not any thing acrael, to establish them for ever, there counted of in the days of Solomon. fore made he thee king over them, to 21 For the king's ships went to Tardo judgment and justice. shish with the servants of Huram : every three years once came the ships of Tarabish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 9 And she gave the king a 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. 22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. his heart. 10 And the servants also of Huram, 23 T And all the kings of the earth and the servants of Solomon, which sought the presence of Solomon, to brought gold from Ophir, brought bear his wisdom, that God had put in algum-trees and precious stones. II And the king made of the algum- 24 And they brought every man his trees terraces to the house of the LORD, present,vessels of silver,and vessels of and to the king's palace,and harps and gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, psalteries for singers: and there were horses, and mules, a rate year by year none such seen before in the land of 25 T And Solomon had four thousand Judah. stalls for horses and chariots; and 12 And king Solomon gave to the twelve thousand horsemen whom he queen of Sheba all her desire, what-bestowed in the chariot-cities, and soever she asked, besides that which] with the king at Jerusalem. she had brought unto the king. So she 26 T And he reigned over all the |