the height thereof; and a line of the two pommels of the chapiters thirty cubits did compass it round

about.

which were on the top of the pillars f 13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.

14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;

15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.

3 And under was the similitude of 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. f4 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 ag 17 In the plain of Jordan did the hand-breadth, and the brim of it king cast them, in the clay ground like the work of the brim of a cup, between Succoth and Zeredathah. with flowers of lilies; and it receiv-f 18 Thus Solomon made all these ed and held three thousand baths. vessels in great abundance for the weight of the brass could not be found out.

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 burntoffering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

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

8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a hundred basons of gold.

f9 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.

f 11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for 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

f 16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the flesh-hooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, of bright brass.

ƒ 19 T And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shew-bread was

set;

20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;

ƒ 22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.

CHAP. V.

HUS all the work that Solo

mon made for the 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. f 2 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 Jerusa-them a hundred and twenty priests lem, to bring up the ark of the cove- sounding with trumpets :) nant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. f 3 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.

t 13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters 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 music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: 5 And they brought up the ark, that then the house was filled with a and the tabernacle of the congrega-cloud, even the house of the LORD; tion, and all the holy vessels that m 14 So that the priests could not were in the tabernacle, these did the stand to minister by reason of the priests and the Levites bring up. cloud: for the glory of the LORD f6 Also king Solomon, and all the had filled the house of God. congregation of Israel that were asCHAP. VI. sembled unto him before the ark, ƒHEN said Solomon, The sheep,

could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

would dwell in the thick darkness. 2 But I have built a house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

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 : f 8 For the cherubims spread forthgation of Israel stood. their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark, and the staves thereof above.

ƒ 3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congre

9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day. g 10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

f11 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:

4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David saying,

g 5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel;

12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, 8 But the LORD said to David of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their my father, Forasmuch as it was in sons and their brethren; being ar- thy heart to build a house for my rayed in white linen, having cym-name, thou didst well in that it was bals and psalteries and harps, stood in thy heart :

at the east end of the altar, and with 9 Notwithstanding, thou shalt not

build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name. u 10 The LORD therefore hath per-less this house which I have built! formed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much

11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

d 12 T And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:

d 20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said, that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.

21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of 13 (For Solomon had made a thy people Israel, which they shall brazen scaffold, of five cubits long, make toward this place: hear thou and five cubits broad, and three cu- from thy dwelling-place, even from bits high, and had set it in the midst heaven; and when thou hearest, forof the court and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands to ward heaven,)

E 14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:

15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thy hand, as it is this day.

b 16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in 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.

S 18 But will God in very deed

give.

b 22 ¶ If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness. b 24 ¶ And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;

25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers. b 26 ¶ When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;

27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou

hast taught them the good way there is no man which sinneth not,) wherein they should walk; and and thou be angry with them, and send rain upon thy land, which thou deliver them over before their enehast given unto thy people for an in-mies, and they carry them away heritance. captives unto a land far off or near;

d 37 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, say

b 28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore, or whatsoever sick-ing, We have sinned, we have done ness there be : amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

29 Then what prayer, or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore, and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house; 30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men :) d 31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name; b 39 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling-place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

40 Now, my God, let, I beseech b 32 Moreover, concerning the thee, thine eyes be open, and let stranger, which is not of thy people thine ears be attent unto the prayer Israel, but is come from a far coun- that is made in this place. try for thy great name's sake, and b 41 Now therefore arise, O LORD thy mighty hand, and thy stretched-God, into thy resting-place, thou, and out arm; if they come and pray in the ark of thy strength: let thy this house; priests, O LORD God, be clothed 33 Then hear thou from the hea-with salvation, and let thy saints revens, even from thy dwelling-place, joice in goodness.

and do according to all that the b 42 O LORD God, turn not away stranger calleth to thee for; that all the face of thine anointed: remempeople of the earth may know thy ber the mercies of David thy sername, and fear thee, as doth thy peo-vant. ple Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called m by thy name.

b34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast 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.

36 If they sin against thee, (for

CHAP. VII.

TOW when Solomon had made

an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt-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.

t 3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down,

and the glory of the LORD upon the mon's heart to make in the house of house, they bowed themselves with the LORD, and in his own house, he their faces to the ground upon the prosperously effected. pavement, and worshipped, and 12 T And the LORD appeared to praised the LORD, saying, For he is Solomon by night, and said unto him, good for his mercy endureth for I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

ever.

f4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

L5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; b 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise b 15 Now mine eyes shall be open, the LORD, because his mercy endur- and mine ears attent unto the prayer eth for ever, when David praised by that is made in this place. their ministry; and the priests sound- 16 For now have I chosen and ed trumpets before them, and all Is-sanctified this house, that my name rael stood. may be there for ever: and mine

7 Moreover Solomon hallowed eyes and my heart shall be there the middle of the court that was be- perpetually.

fore the house of the LORD: ford 17 And as for thee, if thou wilt there he offered burnt-offerings, and walk before me, as David thy father the fat of the peace-offerings, be- walked, and do according to all that cause the brazen altar which Solo-I have commanded thee, and shalt mon had made was not able to re- observe my statutes and my judgceive the burnt-offerings, and the ments: meat-offerings, and the fat.

g8 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

b 18 Then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

p 19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

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. w 20 Then will I pluck them up by 10 And on the three and twenti- the roots out of my land which I have eth day of the seventh month he sent given them; and this house, which I the people away into their tents, have sanctified for my name, will I glad and merry in heart for the cast out of my sight, and will make goodness that the LORD had shew-it to be a proverb and a by-word ed unto David, and to Solomon, and among all nations. to Israel his people.

r21 And this house, which is high, 11 Thus Solomon finished the shall be an astonishment to every house of the LORD, and the king's one that passeth by it; so that he house and all that came into Solo-shall say, Why hath the LORD done