David's charge to Solomon.

Chap. li.

Adonijah put to death. and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for, shed the blood of war in peace, and put the thou art a valiant man, and bringest good blood of war upon his girdle that was about tidings. his loins, and in his shoes that were on his

43 And Jonathan answered and said to Ado-feet. nijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.

44 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule:

45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon; and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.

46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.

47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Go make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

48 And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which hath given one do sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.

6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

7 But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.

8 And behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.

10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years 49 And all the guests that were with Ado-reigned he in Jerusalem. nijah were afraid, and rose up, and went 12 ¶ Then sat Solomon upon the throne of every man his way. David his father; and his kingdom was esta

50 And Adonijah feared because of Solo-blished greatly. mon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to-day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.

52 And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him. he shall die.

53 So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house.

CHAP. II.

1 David, having given a charge to Solomor, 10 dirth. 12 Solomon succeedeth. 13 Adc nizar is put to death.

13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.

14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say on.

15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: how beit, the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was his from the LORD.

16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.

17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunamite to wife.

18 And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.

19¶ Bath-sheba therefore went unto king

Now the days of David drew nigh that he Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijab.

should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;

3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnes thyself:

4 That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart, and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.

20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.

21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunamite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.

22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunamite for Adonijah! Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother: even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

5 Moreover, thou knowest also what Joab 23 Then King Soloman sware by the LORD, the son of Zerulah did to me, and what he saying, God do so to me and more also, if A dodid to the two captains of the hosts of Israel.nijah have not spoken this word against his unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa own life.

the son of Jether, whom he slew, and 24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth,

Joab put to death,

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Solomon's choice. which hath established me, and set me on the ran away unto Achien son of Maachah king throne of David my father, and who hath made of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Beme an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be hold, thy servants be in Gath put to death this day.

25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.

40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.

41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.

26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto ine own fields: for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, be- 42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, cause thou barest the ark of the Lord Gop and said unto him, Did I not make thee to before David my father, and because thou hast swear by the Lord, and protested unto thee, been afficted in all wherein my father was saying, Know for a certain, on the day afflicted. thou goest out, and walkest abroad any

27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is the word of the LORD, which he spake concern-good. ing the house of Eli in Shiloh.

43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of 28 Then tidings came to Joab; for Joab the LORD, and the commandment that I have had turned after Adonijah, though he turned charged thee with? not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoida, saying, Go, fall upon him.

30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.

31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house

of my father.

44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father. therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedBess upon thine own head;

45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever.

46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was esta blished in the hand of Solomon.

CHAP. III.

1 Solomon marrieth Pharaoh's daughter. 6 His choice: 16 his judgment between the two harlots.

AND Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh

king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

32 And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing 2 Only the people sacrificed in high places thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain because there was no house built unto the name of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of of the LORD, until those days. Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacri ficed and burnt incense in high places.

33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his 4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, there; for that was the great high place: a shall there be peace for ever from the thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer LORD. upon that altar.

31 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, 5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Soloand fell upon him, and slew him: and he was mon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask buried in his own house in the wilderness. what I shall give thee.

35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar. •

36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any, whither.

6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servan David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is day.

7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made 37 For it shall be, that on the day thou thy servant king instead of David my father: goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, and I am but a little child: I know not how tɛi thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt go out or come in. surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own 8 And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast chosen, a great people. 38 And Shimei said unto the king, The say-that cannot be numbered nor counted for m ing is good; as my lord the king hath said, so titude.

head.

will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in 9 Give therefore thy servant an undor Jerusalem many days. standing heart to judge thy people, that I may 39 And it came to pass at the end of three discern between good and bad: for who is able years, that two of the servants of Shimei to judge this thy so great a people?

10 And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing.

Solomon's princes and officers.

CHAP. IV.

1 Solomon's princes: 7 his twelve officers; 24 the peace and largeness of his kingdom: 29 his wisdom.

11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked richesking Solomon was king over all Israel. for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine 2 And these were the princes which he enemies, but hast asked for thyself under-had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest; standing to discern judgment;

12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and. bonour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.

14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.

15 And Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house, and I was delivered of a child with her in the

bouse.

18 And it came to pass, the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.

19 And this woman's child died in the night: because she overlaid it.

20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son which I did bear.

22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.

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.

3 Eliboreph and Aliah the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud the recorder.

4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada mas over the host; and Zadok and Abiather were the priests;

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

6 And Abishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.

71 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 moun Ephraim.

9 The son of Dekar in Makaz, and in * Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-bethhanan.

10 The son of Hesed in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, 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-mebolah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:

13 The son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls, and brasen bars.

14 Abinadab 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.

19 Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of 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 making merry.

21 And Solomon reigned over all 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 measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an 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 he had peace on all sides round about him.

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25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every cerning timber of cedar, and concerning timman under his vine and under his fig-tree, from ber of fir. Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solo

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 was over the levy.

32 And he spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five. 33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar-thousand hewers in the mountains: free that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop lat springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things,

15 And Solomon had threescore and tea thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore

16 Besides the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stone-squarers: 13 So-so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

3 1'hou knowest how that David my father A and eightieth year after the children of

could not build an house unto the 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.

4 But now the LORD my God hath given me - rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced great- 6 The nethermost chamber was five culy, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day.bits broad, and the middle was six cubits which hath given unto David a wise son over broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: this great people. for without in the wall of the house he made

9 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I narrowed rests round about, that the team have considered the things which thou sentest should not be fastened in the walls of the to me for: and I will do all thy desire con-house

The building and

Chap. vii.

adorning of the temple.

7 And the house, when it was in building,, the other cherub touched the other wall; and was built of stone made ready before it was their wings touched one another in the miss brought thither: so that there was neither of the house.

hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron, heard in 28 And he overlaid the cherubing with 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 finished it; and covered the house with beams aud boards of cedar.

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

And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying.

gold.

29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims, and palm-trees, and open flowers, within and without.

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

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

32 The two doors also were of olive-tree; and he carved upon therr carvings of cherubirns, and palm-trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm-trees. 33 So also made he for the door of the

12 Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandaients to walk in them; then will I per-temple posts of olive-tree, a fourth part of the form 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, 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.

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 cherubims, 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:

16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with 38 And in the eleventh year, in the montb boards of colar: he even built them for it with-Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house in, even for the oracle, even for the most holy finished, throughout all the parts thereof, and place. according to all the fashion of it. So was be seven years in building it.

17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

19 And in house

CHAP. VII.

The building of Solomon's house, 2 of the
house of Lebanon, 3 of the house for Pha
raor's daughter. 13 Hiram's works.
UT Solomon building

the LORD.

house.

20 And the oracle in the forepart was twen- 2 He built also the house of the forest of ty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred breadth, and twenty cubits in the height there-cubits, and the breadth thereof fiity cubits, of: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four covered the altar which was of cedar. rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

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 over-the laid it with gold.

22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive-tree, each ten cabits 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 cherubians were of one measure and one size.

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

27 And he cet the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wing of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of

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3 And it was covered with cedar above upon 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 three ranks.

5 And all the doors and posts were square with the windows; and light was against light in three ranks.

6 And he made a porch of pillars: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them; and the other pillars and the thick beam were before 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 the floor to the other.

8 And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solanoa made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to me, like unto this por

9 All these wers of costly steam, according

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