the house that I have built for thy name. b45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. t 46 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD. f54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. d 55 And he stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 56 Blessed be the LORD, that hath d 47 Yet if they shall bethink them-given rest unto his people Israel, selves in the land whither they were according to all that he promised: carried captives, and repent, and there hath not failed one word of all make supplication unto thee in the his good promise, which he promisland of them that carried them cap-ed by the hand of Moses his sertives, saying, We have sinned, and vant." have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; d 48 And so return 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: b 49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling-place, 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: d 57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us : b 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. 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 earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else. d 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. f 62 ¶ And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. b 52 That thine eyes may be open 63 And Solomon offered a sacriunto the supplication of thy servant, fice of peace-offerings, which he of and unto the supplication of thy peo-fered unto the LORD, two and twenple Israel, to hearken unto them in ty thousand oxen, and a hundred all that they call for unto thee. and twenty thousand sheep. So the 53 For thou didst separate them king and all the children of Israel from among all the people of the dedicated the house of the LORD. earth, to be thine inheritance, as thoud 64 The same day did the king spakest by the hand of Moses thy hallow the middle of the court that servant, when thou broughtest our was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt-offerings, | set before you, but go and serve and meat-offerings, and the fat of other gods, and worship them: the peace-offerings: because the w 7 Then will I cut off Israel out brazen altar that was before the of the land which I have given LORD was too little to receive the them; and this house which I have burnt-offerings, and meat-offerings, hallowed for my name, will I cast and the fat of the peace-offerings. out of my sight; and Israel shall be g 65 And at that time Solomon held a proverb and a by-word among all a feast, and all Israel with him, a people: 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. f 66 On the eighth day he sent the & And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall biss; and they 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 fa thers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them therefore hath the ND it came to pass, when LORD brought upon them all this Solomon had finished the evil. JAN building of the house of the LORD, 10 T And it came to pass at the and the king's house, and all Solo-end of twenty years, when Solomon mon's desire which he was pleased to do, v2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon. 3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication that thou hast made before me I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house, g 11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedartrees 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. n 13 And he said, What cities are 4 And if thou wilt walk before me, these which thou hast given me, my as David thy father walked, in in-brother? And he called them the tegrity of heart, and in uprightness, land of Cabul unto this day. to do according to all that I have 14 And Hiram sent to the king commanded thee, and wilt keep my sixscore talents of gold. statutes and my judgments: b 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. g 15 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. 6 But if ye shall at all turn from g 16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt following me, ye or your children, had gone up, and taken Gezer, and and will not keep my command-burnt it with fire, and slain the Caments and my statutes which I have naanites that dwelt in the city, and CHAPTER X. g 17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, € 18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land," f27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had know-f 10 And she gave the king a hunledge of the sea, with the servants dred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and of Solomon. precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. g 11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug-trees, and precious stones. f 12 And the king made of the almug-trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almugtrees, nor were seen unto this day. rest of Lebanon were of pure gold, none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. g 22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. f 24 ¶ And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. 13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, besides that 25 And they brought every man which Solomon gave her of his roy- his present, vessels of silver, and al bounty. So she turned and went vessels of gold, and garments, and to her own country, she and her ser-armour, and spices, horses and mules, a rate year by year. vants. f 14 Now the weight of gold that ƒ 26 ¶ And Solomon gathered tocame to Solomon in one year was gether chariots, and horsemen and six hundred threescore and six ta- he had a thousand and four hundred lents of gold, chariots, and twelve thousand horse15 Besides that he had of the mer-men, whom he bestowed in the cichant-men, and of the traffic of the ties for chariots, and with the king spice-merchants, and of all the kings at Jerusalem. of Arabia, and of the governors of the country. f 16 T 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. f 18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold. 19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions 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 made in any kingdom. f21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the fo 27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore-trees that are in the vale, for abundance. f 28 ¶ And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. g 29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means. B CHAP. XI. u UT king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites: p 2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon f 14 ¶ And the LORD stirred up clave unto these in love. an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad u 3 And he had seven hundred the Edomite: he was of the king's wives, princesses, and three hun-seed in Edom. dred concubines and his wives g 15 For it came to pass, when Daturned away his heart. vid was in Edom, and Joab the cap f4 For it came to pass, when So-tain of the host was gone up to bury lomon was old, that his wives turn- the slain, after he had smitten every ed away his heart after other gods male in Edom, and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. p 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom :) 17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child. g 18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh 7 Then did Solomon build a high king of Egypt; which gave him a place for Chemosh, the abomination house, and appointed him victuals, of Moab, in the hill that is before and gave him land. f 6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abo-f 19 And Hadad found great famination of the children of Am-vour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. mon. 8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. f9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, 20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tabpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh. 10 And had commanded him con- f 21 And when Hadad heard in cerning this thing, that he should not Egypt that David slept with his fago after other gods: but he kept not thers, and that Joab the captain of that which the LORD commanded. the host was dead, Hadad said to to 11 Wherefore the LORD said un-Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may to Solomon, Forasmuch as this is go to mine own country. done of thee, and thou hast not kept 22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, my covenant and my statutes which But what hast thou lacked with me, I have commanded thee, I will sure-that, behold, thou seekest to go to ly rend the kingdom from thee, and thine own country? And he anwill give it to thy servant. swered, Nothing: howbeit, let me go in any wise. 12 Notwithstanding, in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. 23 ¶ And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord b 13 Howbeit, I will not rend away Hadadezer king of Zobah: all the kingdom; but will give one g 24 And he gathered men unto tribe to thy son, for David my ser-him, and became captain over a vant's sake, and for Jerusalem's band, when David slew them of sake, which I have chosen. Zobah and they went to Damas |