2 Chronicles Cross References - MLV

¹ And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom. And Jehovah his God was with him and magnified him exceedingly. ² And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every ruler in all Israel, the heads of the fathers.
³ So Solomon and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon. For the tent of meeting of God was there, which Moses the servant of Jehovah had made in the wilderness. ⁴ But the ark of God David had brought up from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it. For he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
⁵ Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of Jehovah. And Solomon and the assembly sought to it. ⁶ And Solomon went up there to the brazen altar before Jehovah, which was at the tent of meeting and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
⁷ In that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, Ask what I will give you.
⁸ And Solomon said to God, You have shown great loving kindness to David my father and have made me king instead of him. ⁹ Now, O Jehovah God, let your promise to David my father be established. For you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. ¹⁰ Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people. For who can judge this your people, that is so great?
¹¹ And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who hate you, neither yet have asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people over whom I have made you king, ¹² wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. And I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you, neither will any after you have the like.
¹³ So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem and he reigned over Israel. ¹⁴ And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. And he had a thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
¹⁵ And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones and cedars he made to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
¹⁶ And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king's merchants received them in herds, each herd at a price. ¹⁷ And they went after and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver and a horse for a hundred and fifty. And so they brought them out by their means for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.

²² And it happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.

² And Jehovah was with Joseph. And he was a man who succeeds. And he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

²¹ But Jehovah was with Joseph and showed kindness to him and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

¹² And he said, I will certainly be with you. And this will be the sign to you, that I have sent you: When you have brought out the people out of Egypt, you* will serve God upon this mountain.

¹² And Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father and his kingdom was established greatly.

⁴⁶ So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And he went out and fell upon him so that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

⁸ And I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are on the earth.

²⁵ And Jehovah magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, as many things as I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the earth.
Amen.

⁹ Hence, God also highly exalted him, and granted to him the name which is above every name; ¹⁰ in order that every knee should bow in the name of Jesus, those from the heavenly and earthly and subterranean places, ¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹ And David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.

³ And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of Jehovah to its place, which he had prepared for it.

¹² And said to them, You* are the heads of the fathers of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you* and your* brothers, that you* may bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

⁴ And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar. And thus were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen heads of fathers' houses and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers' houses, eight.

³¹ These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king and Zadok and Ahimelech and the heads of the fathers of the priests and of the Levites, the fathers of the chief even as those of his younger brother.

¹ Now the sons of Israel after their number, namely, the heads of fathers and the captains of thousands and of hundreds and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year–of every division were twenty-four thousand.

¹ And David assembled all the rulers of Israel, the rulers of the tribes and the captains of the companies that served the king by division and the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.

¹ And David the king said to all the assembly, Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender and the work is great, for the palace is not for man, but for Jehovah God.

²⁰ Then Hezekiah the king arose early and gathered the rulers of the city and went up to the house of Jehovah.

² For the king had taken counsel and his rulers and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month.

²⁹ Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. ³⁰ And the king went up to the house of Jehovah and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites and all the people, both great and small. And he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of Jehovah.

¹ Moreover you will make the tabernacle with ten curtains, of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skillful workman will you make them. ² The length of each curtain will be twenty-eight cubits and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains will have one measure. ³ Five curtains will be coupled together one to another and the other five curtains will be coupled one to another. ⁴ And you will make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling and likewise you will make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. ⁵ Fifty loops you will make in the one curtain and fifty loops you will make in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling; the loops will be opposite one to another. ⁶ And you will make fifty clasps of gold and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps. And the tabernacle will be one whole.
⁷ And you will make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle. Eleven curtains you will make them. ⁸ The length of each curtain will be thirty cubits and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains will have one measure. ⁹ And you will couple five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves and will double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. ¹⁰ And you will make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling and fifty loops upon the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling. ¹¹ And you will make fifty clasps of brass and put the clasps into the loops and couple the tent together, that it may be one. ¹² And the overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, will hang over the back of the tabernacle. ¹³ And the cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side, of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, will hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
¹⁴ And you will make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a covering of certain skins above.
¹⁵ And you will make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up. ¹⁶ Ten cubits will be the length of a board and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. ¹⁷ There will be two tenons in each board, joined one to another. Thus you will make for all the boards of the tabernacle. ¹⁸ And you will make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.
¹⁹ And you will make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. ²⁰ And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards, ²¹ and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.
²² And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward you will make six boards. ²³ And you will make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part. ²⁴ And they will be double beneath and in like manner they will be entire to the top of it to one ring. Thus it will be for them both, they will be for the two corners. ²⁵ And there will be eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets: two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.
²⁶ And you will make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, ²⁷ and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the hinder part westward. ²⁸ And the middle bar in the midst of the boards will pass through from end to end.
²⁹ And you will overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. And you will overlay the bars with gold. ³⁰ And you will raise up the tabernacle according to the fashion of it which has been shown you on the mountain.
³¹ And you will make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen. With cherubim, it will be made the work of the skillful workman. ³² And you will hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks will be of gold, upon four sockets of silver. ³³ And you will hang up the veil under the clasps and will bring in there within the veil the ark of the testimony. And the veil will separate to you* between the holy place and the most holy.
³⁴ And you will put the mercy-seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. ³⁵ And you will set the table outside the veil and the lamp-stand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. And you will put the table on the north side.
³⁶ And you will make a screen for the door of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer. ³⁷ And you will make for the screen five pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold. Their hooks will be of gold and you will cast five sockets of brass for them.

⁸ And all the wise-hearted men among them who worked the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains, of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet, with cherubim; the work of the skillful workman made them.

² On the first day of the first month you will raise up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

³⁴ Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.

¹ And Jehovah called to Moses and spoke to him out of the tent of meeting, saying,

⁵ So Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Jehovah.

⁴ And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings upon that altar.
⁵ In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night and God said, Ask what I will give you.
⁶ And Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, just-as he walked before you in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you. And you have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day. ⁷ And now, O Jehovah my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. And I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. ⁸ And your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. ⁹ Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to judge this your great people?
¹⁰ And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. ¹¹ And God said to him, Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, ¹² behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart, so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you will any arise like you.
¹³ And I have also given you what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you all your days. ¹⁴ And if you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your 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 Jehovah and offered up burnt offerings and offered peace offerings and made a feast to all his servants.

³⁹ and Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests, before the tabernacle of Jehovah in the high place that was at Gibeon,

²⁹ For the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

² And David arose and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, even the name of Jehovah of hosts who sits above the cherubim.

¹⁷ And they brought in the ark of Jehovah and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Jehovah.

⁵ So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim. ⁶ And David went up and all Israel, to Baalah, that is to Kiriath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, Jehovah who sits above the cherubim that is called by the Name.

¹ And David made for him houses in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

²⁵ So David and the elders of Israel and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the house of Obed-edom with joy. ²⁶ And it happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, that they sacrificed seven bullocks and seven rams. ²⁷ And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen and all the Levites who bore the ark and the singers and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers. And David had upon him an ephod of linen.
²⁸ Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah with shouting and with sound of the cornet and with trumpets and with cymbals, sounding-aloud with psalteries and harps.

¹ And they brought in the ark of God and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it. And they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

⁵ until I find out a place for Jehovah, a tabernacle for the Mighty One of Jacob.
⁶ Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of the wood.

¹ And you will make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad (the altar will be square) and the height of it will be three cubits. ² And you will make the horns of it upon the four corners of it. The horns of it will be of one piece with it and you will overlay it with brass. ³ And you will make its pots to take away its ashes and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its censors; all the vessels of it you will make of brass. ⁴ And you will make for it a grating of lattice-work of brass and upon the lattice-work you will make four brazen rings in the four corners of it. ⁵ And you will put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the lattice-work may reach halfway up the altar. ⁶ And you will make staves for the altar, staves of acacia wood and overlay them with brass. ⁷ And the staves of it will be put into the rings and the staves will be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it. ⁸ You will make it hollow with planks. As it has been shown you on the mountain, so will they make it.

² See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

¹ And he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood: five cubits was the length of it and five cubits the breadth of it, square and three cubits the height of it. ² And he made the horns of it upon the four corners of it. The horns of it were of one piece with it and he overlaid it with brass. ³ And he made all the vessels of the altar: the pots and the shovels and the basins, the forks and the censors. All the vessels of it he made of brass. ⁴ And he made for the altar a grating of lattice-work of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up. ⁵ And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be places for the staves. ⁶ And he made the staves of acacia wood and overlaid them with brass. ⁷ And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to bear it; he made it hollow with planks.

¹⁹ And Azubah died and Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore for him Hur. ²⁰ And Hur fathered Uri and Uri fathered Bezalel.

³ And let us bring again the ark of our God to us, for we did not inquire from it in the days of Saul.

⁴ And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings upon that altar.

⁶³ And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Jehovah, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of Jehovah.

²¹ And they sacrificed sacrifices to Jehovah and offered burnt offerings to Jehovah 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,

¹⁶ And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient for a burnt offering.

⁵ Trust in Jehovah with all your heart and do not lean upon your own understanding. ⁶ Acknowledge him in all your ways and he will direct your paths.

⁷ Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will be finding; knock and it will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who is asking, receives; and the one who is seeking, finds; and to the one who is knocking, it will be opened.

³⁶ But he said to them, What are you wishing me to do for you?
³⁷ Now they said to him, Give to us that we may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left hand in your glory.

⁵¹ And Jesus answered and says to him, What do you wish that I might do for you?
Now the blind man said to him, Rabboni, that I may recover my sight.

²³ And in that day you will not be asking me anything. Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, that as many things as you may ask the Father in my name, he will be giving them to you.

¹⁴ And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us; ¹⁵ and if we know that he hears us whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from him.

⁸ Now therefore thus you will say to my servant David, Jehovah of hosts says thus, I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel. ⁹ And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones that are on the earth.

⁷ And Nathan said to David, You are the man. Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel, I anointed you king over Israel and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. ⁸ And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your bosom and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if that had been too little, I would have added to you such and such things.

⁵¹ He gives great deliverance to his king and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, until everlasting.

⁵ And of all my sons (for Jehovah has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah over Israel.

²³ Then Solomon sat on the throne of Jehovah as king instead of David his father and prospered and all Israel obeyed him.

¹³ Because great is your loving kindness toward me and you have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

²⁰ I have found David my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil, ²¹ with whom my hand will be established. My arm also will strengthen him.
²² The enemy will not exact from him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. ²³ And I will beat down his adversaries before him and kill* those who hate him, ²⁴ but my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him and in my name will his horn be exalted.
²⁵ I will also set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.
²⁶ He will cry to me, You are my Father, my God and the rock of my salvation. ²⁷ I also will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
²⁸ I will keep my loving kindness for him everlasting. And my covenant will stand fast with him.

⁴⁹ Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

³ Incline your* ear and come to me. Hear and your* soul will live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you*, even the faithful holy things of David.

¹⁶ And I will make your seed like the dust of the earth. So that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may your seed also be numbered.

¹⁷ that in blessing I will bless you and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is upon the sea _shore and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies

¹⁰ Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his!

¹² When your days are fulfilled and you will sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will proceed out of your guts and I will establish his kingdom. ¹³ He will build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom until everlasting.
¹⁴ I will be his father and he will be my son. If he commits wicked things, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men, ¹⁵ but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul whom I put away before you. ¹⁶ And your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you; your throne will be established until everlasting.

²⁵ And now, O Jehovah God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm it until everlasting and do as you have spoken. ²⁶ And let your name be magnified until everlasting, saying, Jehovah of hosts is God over Israel and the house of your servant David will be established before you. ²⁷ For you, O Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, I will build you a house. Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.
²⁸ And now, O lord Jehovah, you are God and your words are truth and you have promised this good thing to your servant. ²⁹ Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue everlasting before you, for you, O lord Jehovah, have spoken it. And with your blessing let the house of your servant be blessed forever.

⁷ And now, O Jehovah my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. And I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. ⁸ And your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

¹¹ And it will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who will be of your sons. And I will establish his kingdom.
¹² He will build for me a house and I will establish his throne everlasting. ¹³ I will be his father and he will be my son. And I will not take my loving kindness away from him as I took it from him who was before you. ¹⁴ But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom until everlasting and his throne will be established until everlasting.

²³ And now, O Jehovah, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, be established until everlasting and do as you have spoken. ²⁴ And let your name be established and magnified until everlasting, saying, Jehovah of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel and the house of David your servant is established before you. ²⁵ For you, O my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray before you.
²⁶ And now, O Jehovah, you are God and have promised this good thing to your servant, ²⁷ and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue everlasting before you; for you, O Jehovah, have blessed and it is blessed everlasting.

⁶ And he said to me, Solomon your son, he will build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son and I will be his father. ⁷ And I will establish his kingdom until everlasting, if he is constant to do my commandments and my ordinances, as at this day.

³⁵ I have sworn once by my holiness; I will not lie to David. ³⁶ His seed will endure everlasting and his throne as the sun before me. ³⁷ It will be established everlasting as the moon and as the faithful witness in the sky. Selah.

¹¹ Jehovah has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: From the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne. ¹² If your sons will keep my covenant and my testimony that I will teach them, their sons also will sit upon your throne forever.

¹⁷ who may go out before them and who may come in before them and who may lead them out and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Jehovah is not as sheep which have no shepherd.

² And he said to them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day. I can no more go out and come in. And Jehovah has said to me, You will not go over this Jordan.

² In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And Jehovah said to you, You will be shepherd of my people Israel and you will be prince over Israel.

⁹ Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to judge this your great people?

³⁴ Give me understanding and I will keep your law, yes, I will observe it with my whole heart.

⁷³ Your hands have made me and fashioned me. Give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

² so as to incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding, ³ because, if you cry after discernment and lift up your voice for understanding, ⁴ if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures, ⁵ then you will understand the fear of Jehovah and find the knowledge of God.
⁶ Because Jehovah gives wisdom. Out of his mouth is knowledge and understanding.

¹³ The man who finds wisdom is fortunate, and the man who gets understanding. ¹⁴ Because the gain of it is better than the gain of silver and the profit of it than fine gold. ¹⁵ She is more precious than rubies and none of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand, in her left hand are riches and honor. ¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her. And everyone who retains her is fortunate.

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing. Get wisdom, yes, get understanding with all your substance.

¹⁶ to the one an aroma from death to death, but to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient in these things?

⁵ not that we are sufficient from ourselves, to reason anything as out of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God;

⁵ But if anyone of you is deficient of wisdom, let him ask from God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach any, and it will be given to him.

⁷ But Jehovah said to Samuel, Do not look on his countenance, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For Jehovah sees not as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looks on the heart.

¹¹ And God said to him, Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, ¹² behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart, so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you will any arise like you.
¹³ And I have also given you what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you all your days.

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 justice.

¹⁸ But Jehovah said to David my father, Because it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

² Then David the king stood up upon his feet and said, Hear me, my brothers and my people. As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and for the footstool of our God. And I had made ready for the building.

¹⁷ I know also, my God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
¹⁸ O Jehovah, the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Israel, our fathers, keep this everlasting in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people and prepare their heart to you.

⁸ The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

⁷ Because as he thinks within himself, so is he. Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

⁴ When it remained unsold, was it not remaining yours? And when it was sold, was it not still in your authority? Why did you purpose this matter in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God.

¹² For the word of God is living and effective and sharper beyond that of any two edged sword and is penetrating till the division of both soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow and is a judge of the contemplations and deliberations of the heart.

¹³ Who is wise and knowledgeable among you? Let him show out of his good conduct his works in meekness of wisdom.

¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from above is indeed first pure, thereafter is peaceful, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-pretended.

²² So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

⁹ I got for me male-singers and female-singers and the luxuries of the sons of men and a wife and wives.
So I was great and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.

³³ But first seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

²⁰ Now to the one who is able to do, exceptionally beyond all things, what we are asking or are perceiving, according to the power which is working in us,

²⁴ For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River. And he had peace on all sides all around him. ²⁵ And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

³ So Solomon and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon. For the tent of meeting of God was there, which Moses the servant of Jehovah had made in the wilderness.

¹⁶ Only he will not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses, inasmuch as Jehovah has said to you*, You* will hereafter return no more that way.

²⁶ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen.

¹⁹ and all the store-cities that Solomon had and the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen and what Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion.

¹⁶ And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler.

²⁶ And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. And he had a thousand and four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
²⁷ And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones and cedars he made to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
²⁸ And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. And the king's merchants received them in herds, each herd at a price. 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, they brought them out by their means.

²⁵ And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

¹² wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. And I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you, neither will any after you have the like.

²⁷ And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones and he made cedars to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

²⁴ Then you will lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. ²⁵ Yes, the Almighty will be your treasure and precious silver to you.

¹⁰ The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone, the sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

¹⁷ For brass I will bring gold and for iron I will bring silver and for wood brass and for stones iron. I will also make your officers peace and your overseers righteousness.

¹⁴ Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, nor was I a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees.

²⁸ And they brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt and out of all lands.

²⁹ However from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, Jehu did not depart from after them, namely, the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.