Before CHRIST . 1015.

fch. 26. 21.

8 2 Cor. 9. 7.

h Matt. 6. 13. 1 Tim. 1. 17. Rev. 5. 13.

i Rom. 11. 36.

or, obtain strength.

the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.

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9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

10 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.

11 h Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

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12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

14 But who am I, and what is my +Heb. retain, people, that we should + be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and † of thine own have we given thee.

+Heb.of thine hand.

k Ps. 39. 12. Hebr. 11.13.

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15 For * we are strangers before thee, 1 Pet. 2. 11. and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none † abiding.

1 Job 14. 2. Ps. 90. 9. &

102. 11. &
144. 4.

+ Heb. expec

tation.

m 1 Sam. 16.7. ch. 28. 9.

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17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in Prov. 11. 20. uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are || present here, to offer willingly unto thee.

|| Or, found.

18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts Or, stablish. of the heart of thy people, and || prepare their heart unto thee:

Ps. 10. 17.

do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.

20 ¶ And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.

21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

22 And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.

Or, history. in+Heb. words.

30 With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.

* Dan. 2. 21.

CHAPTER I.

1 The solemn offering of Solomon at Gibeon. 7 Solomon's choice of wisdom is blessed by God. 13 Solomon's strength and wealth.

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5 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

6 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it. 7 ¶ In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.

8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

1 Kings 3. for thou hast made me king over a peoHeb much ple like the dust of the earth in multitude.

as the dust of the earth.

10" Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

Before CHRIST 1015.

" 1 Kings 3. 9. • Numb. 27. 17.

Deut. 31. 2. 11, 12, 13.

11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thouKings 3. hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:

12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as q none of 1 Chron. 29. the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.

13 Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.

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14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

15 And the king † made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.

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

25.

ch. 9. 22. Eccles. 2. 9.

17 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, † by Heb. by their means.

their hand.

Solomon's message to Huram.

Before CHRIST 1015.

⚫ 1 Kings 5. 5.

b ver. 18.

1 Kings 5. 15.

|| Or, Hiram,

1 Kings 5. 1.

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Huram's kind answer.

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

house for the name of the LORD,

and an house for his kingdom.

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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.

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3 ¶ And Solomon sent to || Huram the 1 Chron. 14. 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.

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?

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.

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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,

for his kingdom.

13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's,

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.

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15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my ver. 10. lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his

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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.

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.

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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.

2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

men the
strangers.

u 1 Chron. 22. 2.

* As it is ver. 2.

3 ¶ Now these are the things wherein Solomon was † instructed for the building + Heb. foundof the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

Before CHRIST 1012.

* 1 Kings 6. 3.

1 Kings 6.17.

+ Heb. covered

1 Kings 6.
23, &c.

|| Or, (as some think) of moveable work.

Or, toward the house.

Exod. 26.31.

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.

5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

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.

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.

9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

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10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims || of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

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.

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.

13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.

14 ¶ And he made the "vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, Heb. caused and f wrought cherubims thereon.

Mat. 27. 51. Hebr. 9. 3.

to ascend.

1 Kings 7.15 -21.

Jer. 52. 21. + Heb. long.

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.

The altar of brass, &c.

24, 25, 26.

3 And under it was the similitude of 1 Kings 7. 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 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.

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 Or, like a lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.

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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.

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7 And he made ten candlesticks of 1 Kings 7. gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

8 h 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 || basons of gold.

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.

10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south. 11 And 'Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the | basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make + Heb. finishfor king Solomon for the house of God; 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;

The solemn induction of the ark

Before CHRIST 1012.

n See 1 Kings

7. 20.

+Heb. upon
the face.
• 1 Kings 7.
27, 43.

|| Or,caldrons.

1 Kings 7. 48, 49, 50.

Exod. 25. 30.

" Exod. 27. 20, 21.

* Exod. 25. 31, &c.

+ Heb. perfections of gold.

Il Or, bowls.

1005.

⚫ 1 Kings 7.

51.

1004.

b1 Kings 8. 1, &c.

* 2 Sam. 6. 12. d 1 Kings 8. 2.

9, 10.

1 The dedicated treasures. 2 The solemn induction

of the ark into the oracle. 11 God being praised giveth a visible sign of his favour.

ΤΗ
THUS "all the work that Solomon

made for 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.

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2 T 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. 3d Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.

4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.

5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the taber

into the oracle.

nacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

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.

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:

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.

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: 12 Also the Levites which were the 1 Chron. 25. 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 1 Chron. 15. with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets :)

13 It came

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24.

peters 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 musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for Ps. 136. his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

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See 1 Chron.

16. 34, 41.

ch. 7. 2.

14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for Exod. 40.35. the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.