2 Chronicles Cross References - ACV

¹ And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom. And LORD 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 LORD 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 LORD. And Solomon and the assembly sought to it. ⁶ And Solomon went up there to the brazen altar before LORD, 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 shall give thee. ⁸ And Solomon said to God, Thou have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his stead. ⁹ Now, O LORD God, let thy promise to David my father be established. For thou 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 thy people, that is so great? ¹¹ And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thy heart, and thou have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who hate thee, neither yet have asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou may judge my people over whom I have made thee king, ¹² wisdom and knowledge are granted to thee. And I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before thee, neither shall any after thee 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 came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou do.

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

²¹ But LORD 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 thee. And this shall be the sign to thee, that I have sent thee: When thou have brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall 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 thee wherever thou have gone, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee. And I will make thee a name like the name of the great ones who are on the earth.

²⁵ And LORD 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 as I commanded you. And lo, I am with you all the days, until the end of the age. Truly.

⁹ Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly, ¹¹ and that every tongue should acknowledge 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 LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it.

¹² And said to them, Ye are the heads of the fathers of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brothers, that ye may bring up the ark of LORD, 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 LORD God.

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

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 LORD, 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 LORD.

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

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

² On the first day of the first month thou shall raise up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

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

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

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

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

²⁹ For the tabernacle of LORD, 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 LORD of hosts who sits above the cherubim.

¹⁷ And they brought in the ark of LORD, 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 LORD.

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, LORD 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 LORD out of the house of Obed-edom with joy. ²⁶ And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of LORD, 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 LORD 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 LORD, a tabernacle for the Mighty One of Jacob. ⁶ Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of the wood.

¹ And thou shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad (the altar shall be foursquare), and the height of it shall be three cubits. ² And thou shall make the horns of it upon the four corners of it. The horns of it shall be of one piece with it, and thou shall overlay it with brass. ³ And thou shall make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its firepans; all the vessels of it thou shall make of brass. ⁴ And thou shall make for it a grating of network of brass, and upon the network thou shall make four brazen rings in the four corners of it. ⁵ And thou shall put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the network may reach halfway up the altar. ⁶ And thou shall make staves for the altar, staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass. ⁷ And the staves of it shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it. ⁸ Thou shall make it hollow with planks. As it has been shown thee on the mount, so shall 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, foursquare, 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 flesh-hooks, and the firepans. All the vessels of it he made of brass. ⁴ And he made for the altar a grating of network 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 begot Uri, and Uri begot 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 LORD, twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of LORD.

²¹ And they sacrificed sacrifices to LORD, and offered burnt offerings to LORD 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 LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding. ⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.

⁷ Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you. ⁸ For every man who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

³⁶ And he said to them, What do ye want me to do for you? ³⁷ And they said to him, Grant to us that we may sit, one at thy right hand, and one at thy left hand, in thy glory.

⁵¹ And having answered, Jesus says to him, What do thou want I would do to thee? And the blind man said to him, Rabboni, that I may receive my sight.

²³ And in that day ye will ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, that as many things as ye may ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

¹⁴ And this is the confidence that 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 may ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

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

⁷ And Nathan said to David, Thou are the man. Thus says LORD, the God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul. ⁸ And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah. And if that had been too little, I would have added to thee 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, for evermore.

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

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

¹³ For great is thy loving kindness toward me, and thou have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

²⁰ I have found David my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him, ²¹ with whom my hand shall be established. My arm also shall strengthen him. ²² The enemy shall not exact from him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. ²³ And I will beat down his adversaries before him, and smite those who hate him, ²⁴ but my faithfulness and my loving kindness shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted. ²⁵ I will also set his hand on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers. ²⁶ He shall cry to me, Thou 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 for evermore. And my covenant shall stand fast with him.

⁴⁹ Lord, where are thy former loving kindnesses, which thou swore to David in thy faithfulness?

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

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

¹⁷ that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall 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 thy days are fulfilled, and thou shall sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, who shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹³ He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ¹⁴ I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men, ¹⁵ but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul whom I put away before thee. ¹⁶ And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure forever before thee; thy throne shall be established forever.

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

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

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

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

⁶ And he said to me, Solomon thy son, he shall 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 forever, 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 shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. ³⁷ It shall be established forever as the moon, and as the faithful witness in the sky. Selah.

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

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 LORD be 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 LORD has said to me, Thou shall not go over this Jordan.

² In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was thou who led out and brought in Israel. And LORD said to thee, Thou shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and thou shall be prince over Israel.

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

³⁴ Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law, yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

⁷³ Thy hands have made me and fashioned me. Give me understanding that I may learn thy commandments.

² so as to incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding, ³ yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding, ⁴ if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures, ⁵ then thou shall understand the fear of LORD, and find the knowledge of God. ⁶ For LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth is knowledge and understanding.

¹³ Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding. ¹⁴ For 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 thou 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 happy is everyone who retains her.

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing. Get wisdom, yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

¹⁶ to the one an odor of death for death, and to the other an aroma of life for life. And who is adequate for these things?

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

⁵ And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God who gives to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

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

¹¹ And God said to him, Because thou have asked this thing, and have not asked for thyself long life, neither have asked riches for thyself, nor have asked the life of thine enemies, but have asked for thyself understanding to discern justice, ¹² behold, I have done according to thy word. Lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there has been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like thee. ¹³ And I have also given thee that which thou have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like thee all thy 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 LORD said to David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for my name, thou did well that it was in thy 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 LORD, and for the footstool of our God. And I had made ready for the building.

¹⁷ I know also, my God, that thou 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 thy people, who are present here, offer willingly to thee. ¹⁸ O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart to thee.

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

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

⁴ While it remained, did it not remain to thee? And after it was sold, it was in thine authority. Why is it that thou have placed this matter in thy heart? Thou have not lied to men, but to God.

¹² For the word of God is living, and potent, and sharper, above every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division both of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and discernible of the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

¹³ Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in meekness of wisdom.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, gentle, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.

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

⁹ So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.

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

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do above extraordinary-above all things that we ask or think-according to the power that works 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 round about him. ²⁵ And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, 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 LORD had made in the wilderness.

¹⁶ Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses, inasmuch as LORD has said to you, Ye shall henceforth 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 that which 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 thee. And I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before thee, neither shall any after thee 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 thou shall lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. ²⁵ Yea, the Almighty will be thy treasure, and precious silver to thee.

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 thy officers peace, and thine 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.