t 12 And the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things: 13 Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house LORD, and for all of service in the house of the LORD. f 14 He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service : ƒ 21 And behold, the courses of the URTHERMORE David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God. c2 Now I have prepared with_all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx-stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones f 15 Even the weight for the can- f17 Also pure gold for the flesh- d 18 And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD. v 19 All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern. : d 20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong, and of good courage, and do it fear not, nor be dismayed, for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD. d 3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, 4 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal: k 5 The gold for things of gold, and 7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, aud of silver ten thousand talents, and people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee. of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. b 18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto 8 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershon-thee: ite. Wherefore David blessed d 19 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision. e 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. f 10 20 ¶ And David said to all the the LORD before all the congrega- congregation, Now bless the LORD tion and David said, Blessed be your God. And all the congregathou, LORD God of Israel our fa-tion blessed the LORD God of their ther, for ever and ever. fathers, and bowed down their S11 Thine, O LORD, is the great-heads, and worshipped the LORD, ness, and the power, and the glory, and the king. and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the king dom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thy hand is power and might; and in thy 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. 21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burntofferings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drinkofferings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel: f 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. 23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him. e 14 But who am I, and what is my 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. t 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our 24 And all the princes, and the fathers our days on the earth are mighty men, and all the sons likeas a shadow, and there is none abid-wise of king David, submitted theming. selves unto Solomon the king. 16 O LORD our God, all this store ƒ 25 And the LORD magnified Sothat we have prepared to build thee lomon exceedingly in the sight of all a house for thy holy name cometh of Israel, and bestowed upon him such thy hand, and is all thine own. royal majesty as had not been on t 17 I know also, my God, that any king before him in Israel. thou triest the heart, and hast plea-26 T Thus David the son of Jesse sure in uprightness. As for me, in reigned over all Israel. the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy 27 And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the f ¶The Second Book of the CHRONICLES. CHAP. I. d 9 Now, O LORD God, let thy AND Solomon the son of Da- promise unto David my father be vid was strengthened in his established: for thou hast made me kingdom, and the LORD his God king over a people like the dust of was with him, and magnified him the earth in multitude. exceedingly. c 10 Give me now wisdom and 2 Then Solomon spake unto all knowledge, that I may go out and Israel, to the captains of thousands come in before this people: for who and of hundreds, and to the judges, can judge this thy people, that is so and to every governor in all Israel, great? the chief of the fathers. g 3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness. g 4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-jearn to the place which David had prepared for it for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. 11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thy heart, and thou 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: b 12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had f 5 Moreover, the brazen altar, that have been before thee, neither that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son shall there any after thee have the of Hur, had made, he put before like. the tabernacle of the LORD: and ƒ13 ¶ Then Solomon came from his Solomon and the congregation journey to the high place that was sought unto it. 6 And Solomon went up thither to the brazen 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. at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel. 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 chariotcities, 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 sycamore-trees that are in the cunning men that are with me in vale, for abundance. Judah and in Jerusalem, whom Daf 16 And Solomon had horses vid my father did provide. brought out of Egypt, and linen f 8 Send me also cedar-trees, firyarn: the king's merchants received trees, and algum-trees out of Lebathe linen yarn at a price. non (for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon ;) and behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 17 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means. CHAP. II. 9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great. 10 And behold, I will give to thy A a me shat build a house for the name of twenty thousand measures of beaten the LORD, and a house for his king-wheat, and twenty thousand meadom. sures of barley, and twenty thousand 2 And Solomon told out three-baths of wine, and twenty thousand score and ten thousand men to bear baths of oil. burdens, and fourscore thousand to f 11 Then Huram the king of hew in the mountain, and three Tyre answered in writing, which thousand and six hundred to oversee he sent to Solomon, Because the them. f 3 T And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, even so deal with me. LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them. 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 build a house for the LORD, and a house for his kingdom. 13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, L 4 Behold, I build a house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shew-bread, and for the buratofferings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new-moons, 14 The son of a woman of the and on the solemn feasts of the LORD daughters of Dan, and his father our God. This is an ordinance for was a man of Tyre, skilful to work ever to Israel. 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 5 And the house which I build is great for great is our God above all gods. t6 But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then that I should build him a house, save only to burn sa- father. crifice before him? 15 Now therefore the wheat, and f7 Send me now therefore a man the barley, the oil, and the wine cunning to work in gold, and in sil- which my lord hath spoken of, let ver, and in brass, and in iron, and him send unto his servants; in purple, and crimson, and blue,g 16 And we will cut wood out of and that can skill to grave with the Lebanon, as much as thou shalt 9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. need and we will bring it to thee of twenty cubits: and he overlaid it in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou with fine gold, amounting to six hunshalt carry it up to Jerusalem. dred talents. f 17 ¶ And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had 10 And in the most holy house he numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. f18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a-work. made two cherubims of image-work, CHAP. III. at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, wing was five cubits also, joining to where the LORD appeared unto the wing of the other cherub. David his father, in the place that 13 The wings of these cherubims David had prepared in the thresh-spread themselves forth twenty cuing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. bits: and they stood on their feet, f2 And he began to build in the and their faces were inward. second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. f3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. f4 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 a hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold. 5 And the greater house he ceiled with fir-tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm-trees and chains. g 6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim. 14 ¶ And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon. 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. f 16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. 17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz. CHAP. IV. He overlaid also the house, the tar of brass, twenty cubits [OREOVER he made an albeams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; the length thereof, and twenty cuand graved cherubims on the walls. bits the breadth thereof, and ten cuf 8 And he made the most holy bits the height thereof. house, the length whereof was ac-f2 ¶ Also he made a molten sea cording to the breadth of the house, of ten cubits from brim to brim, twenty cubits, and the breadth there- round in compass, and five cubits |