1 Kings 9 Cross References - LITV

¹ And it happened, as Solomon finished building the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do, ² that Jehovah appeared to Solomon a second time, as He appeared to him in Gibeon. ³ And Jehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication with which you have made supplication before Me; I have sanctified this house that you have built to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there forever. ⁴ And you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, in singleness of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you; you shall keep My statutes and My judgments; ⁵ then I shall establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I spoke to your father David, saying, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel. ⁶ If you at all turn back, you and your sons, from following me, and do not keep My commands, My statutes which I have set before you, and you shall go and serve other gods and bow yourselves to them, ⁷ then I shall cut off Israel from the face of the land that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I shall send away from My face, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. ⁸ As to this house, which is high, everyone passing by it shall be astonished and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house? ⁹ And they shall say, Because they have forsaken Jehovah their God, who brought their fathers out from the land of Egypt, and they laid hold on other gods and bowed themselves to them and served them. On account of this Jehovah has brought in upon them all this evil. ¹⁰ And it happened, at the end of twenty years Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the house of the king. ¹¹ Hiram the king of Tyre had lifted Solomon with cedar trees and with fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire; then king Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. ¹² And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given to him, and they were not right in his eyes. ¹³ And he said, What are these cities that you have given to me, my brother? And one called them the land of Cabul to this day. ¹⁴ And Hiram sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold. ¹⁵ And this is the reason of the labor force that king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. ¹⁶ (Pharaoh the king of Egypt had gone up and had captured Gezer, and had burned it with fire. And he killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon.) ¹⁷ and Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the lower, ¹⁸ and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land; ¹⁹ and all the store cities which Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. ²⁰ All the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites who were not of the sons of Israel, ²¹ their sons left behind them in the land, whom the sons of Israel had not been able to exterminate, Solomon even caused to go on them a burden of forced labor to this day. ²² But Solomon did not choose a slave out of the sons of Israel, for they were the men of war, and his servants, and his rulers, and his commanders, and the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen. ²³ These were the commanders of the officers who were over the work of Solomon: five hundred and fifty, those ruling among the people who were laboring in the work. ²⁴ But the daughter of Pharaoh went up out of the city of David to her house that he built for her; then he built Millo. ²⁵ And three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to Jehovah, and he burned incense on the altar before Jehovah, and finished the house. ²⁶ And king Solomon built a navy in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the lip of the Sea of Reeds, in the land of Edom. ²⁷ And Hiram sent his servants in the navy, shipmen who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon; ²⁸ and they came to Ophir and took gold from there, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it in to king Solomon.

³⁷ The house of Jehovah was founded in the fourth year, in the month of Zif.

⁵¹ And it was complete, all the work that king Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah. And Solomon brought in the sanctified things of his father David: the silver, and the gold, and the vessels he had put into the treasuries of the house of Jehovah.

¹¹ Hiram the king of Tyre had lifted Solomon with cedar trees and with fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire; then king Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

¹⁹ and all the store cities which Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

¹¹ And Solomon finished the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all that came to the heart of Solomon to do in the house of Jehovah, and in his own house, he was caused to prosper.

⁴ I made my works great; I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself;

¹⁰ And all that my eyes desired, I did not set aside from them; I withheld not my heart from all mirth; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor; and this was my part from all my labor.

⁹ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the soul. This is also vanity and striving after wind.

⁵ Jehovah appeared to Solomon in Gibeon in a dream of the night. And God said, Ask. What shall I give to you?

⁹ And Jehovah was angry with Solomon, for his heart had bent away from Jehovah, God of Israel who had appeared to him twice,

⁷ In that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, Ask what I shall give to you. ⁸ And Solomon said to God, You have acted with great kindness with my father David, and have made me king in his place. ⁹ Now, O Jehovah God, Your word with my father David is confirmed, for You have made me to reign over a people as many as the dust of the earth. ¹⁰ Now give to me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this Your great people? ¹¹ And God said to Solomon, Because this has been in your heart, that you have not asked riches, treasures, and honor, and the life of those who hate you, and also have not asked many days, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may judge My people, over whom I have made you reign; ¹² the wisdom and the knowledge are given to you, and riches, and treasures, and honor I will give to you, such as none of the kings who were before you has had, and after you it shall not be so.

¹² And Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to Myself for a house of sacrifice.

¹¹ For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all which is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; on account of this Jehovah blessed the sabbath day and sanctified it.

³⁸ the fire-pans of these sinners against their own souls. And they shall make of them spreadout plates, a covering for the altar, for they have brought them near before Jehovah, and they are holy. And they shall become a sign to the sons of Israel.

¹² a land which Jehovah your God cares for; the eyes of Jehovah your God are constantly on it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

⁵ But you shall seek to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes; for you shall seek His dwelling, to put His name there. And you shall go there.

¹¹ And it shall be the place which Jehovah your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you, your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice freewill offerings which you vow to Jehovah.

²¹ If the place which Jehovah your God shall choose to put His name there is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you; and you shall eat within your gates according to all the desire of your soul.

¹¹ And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you and your son, and your daughter, and your male slave, and your slave-girl, and the Levite that is inside your gates, and the alien, and the fatherless, and the widow that are among you, in the place which Jehovah your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there.

¹⁰ And it happened as the priests went out from the Holy of Holies, that the cloud filled the house of Jehovah, ¹¹ and the priests were not able to stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of Jehovah.

²⁹ for Your eyes are open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, My name shall be there; to listen to the prayer which Your servant prays toward this place.

⁵ Return, and you shall say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, So says Jehovah, the God of your father David, I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you; you shall go up to the house of Jehovah the third day.

⁴⁰ Now, My God, I beseech You, let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer of this place;

¹⁵ Now My eyes shall be open, and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place; ¹⁶ and now I have chosen and sanctified this house for My name to be there forever; yea, My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

¹⁷ O Jehovah, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart. Your ear will hear,

¹⁹ Surely, God has heard; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

¹ I love Jehovah because He hears my voice, my prayers.

¹³ Jehovah has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling-place. ¹⁴ This is My rest till forever; I will dwell here; I have desired it.

⁹ You have ravished My heart, My sister, My spouse; you have ravished My heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck. ¹⁰ How beautiful are your loves, My sister, My spouse! How much better are your loves than wine, and the scent of your ointments than all spices!

¹ Then Jehovah said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul could not be toward this people. Send them out from before My face; yea, let them go out.

²³ At the beginning of your prayers the word came forth, and I have come to explain it . For you are greatly beloved. Then understand the matter and pay attention to the vision:

⁹ So, then, you should pray this way: Our Father who is in Heaven, let be sanctified Your name.

⁴² And I know that you always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing around, I said it, that they might believe that You sent Me.

³¹ And he said, Cornelius, your prayer was heard and your alms were remembered before God.

¹⁴ And this is the confidence we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

¹ And when Abram was ninety nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before me and be perfect;

¹ And if you shall heed the voice of Jehovah your God, taking heed to do all His commandments which I command you this day, Jehovah your God shall set you on high above all nations of the earth.

¹⁴ And if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commands, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.

²⁵ And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, keep for Your servant David, my father, that which You spoke to him, saying, There shall not be cut off from you a man from before Me, sitting on the throne of Israel; only, if your sons watch their way, to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.

⁴ And it happened, at the time Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, like the heart of his father David.

⁶ and Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and did not go fully after Jehovah like his father David.

³⁸ And it shall be, if you shall hear all that I command you, and shall walk in My ways, and do that which is right in My eyes, to keep My statutes and My commands, as My servant David did, then I shall be with you and shall build a sure house for you, as I built for David, and shall give Israel to you.

⁸ and have torn the kingdom from the house of David, and have given it to you, and you have not been as My servant David who kept My commandments, and who walked after Me with all his heart, to do only that which is right in My eyes;

⁵ For David did that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, and did not turn aside from all that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

¹⁷ And you, if you shall walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and shall keep My statutes and My judgments, ¹⁸ then I shall establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with your father David, saying, There shall not be cut off a man to you who rules in Israel;

¹¹ My foot has held fast in His steps; I have kept His way and have not turned; ¹² nor have I departed from the command of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.

² He who walks uprightly and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.

¹ A Psalm of David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in my integrity; I also have trusted in Jehovah; I shall not slide.

¹¹ But I will walk in my integrity; redeem me and be gracious to me.

⁹ He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways shall be found out.

⁷ The just one walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him!

¹⁸ He who walks uprightly shall be saved, but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

⁷ So says Jehovah of hosts: If you will walk in My ways, and if you will keep My charge, then you shall also judge My house, and shall also keep My courts, and I will give you room to walk among these who stand by.

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, walking blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

¹ For the rest, then brothers, we beg you and we exhort in the Lord Jesus, even as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more. ² For you know what injunctions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

¹² When your days are fulfilled, and you lie with your fathers, then I shall raise up your seed after you, who shall come out from your bowels, and I shall establish his kingdom.

¹⁶ And your house shall be established, and your kingdom before you forever. Your throne shall be established forever.

⁴ so that Jehovah may establish His word which He spoke to me, saying, If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, saying, There shall not be a man to you cut off from the throne of Israel.

¹² As to this house that you are building, if you shall walk in My statutes, and shall do My judgments, and shall do all My commandments, to walk in them, then I shall establish your word with you which I spoke to your father David.

¹⁵ And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of Israel, who spoke by His mouth with my father David, and by his hand has fulfilled it, saying,

²⁰ And Jehovah has established His word that He spoke; for I have risen up instead of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spoke, and have built the house for the name of Jehovah the God of Israel;

⁹ Behold, a son shall be born to you; he shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies all around, for Solomon shall be his name, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days; ¹⁰ he shall build a house to My name, and he shall be a son to Me, and I a Father to him; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.

²⁸ I will keep My mercy for Him forever, and My covenant shall hold fast with Him. ²⁹ And I have established his Seed forever, and His throne as the days of the heavens. ³⁰ If his children forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments; ³¹ if they profane My statutes and do not keep My commandments; ³² then I will visit their transgressions with the rod, and their sins with stripes. ³³ But I will not annul My mercy from him, and I will not be false in My faithfulness. ³⁴ I will not profane My covenant, nor change what goes from My lips. ³⁵ Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. ³⁶ His seed shall be forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. ³⁷ Like the moon, it shall be forever; and a faithful witness in the sky. Selah. ³⁸ But You have cast off and rejected us; You have been angry with Your anointed. ³⁹ You have turned away from the covenant of your servant; You have defiled his crown on the ground.

¹¹ Jehovah has sworn to David in truth; He will not turn from it; I will set one of the fruit of your body on the throne for you. ¹² If your sons will keep My covenant and My testimonies which I will teach them, their sons shall also sit on your throne till forever.

¹⁵ And it shall be, as every good thing which Jehovah your God has spoken to you comes to you, so shall Jehovah bring on you every evil thing, until He destroys you from off this good land which Jehovah your God has given to you, ¹⁶ when you transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God which He commanded you, and when you have gone and served other gods, and have bowed yourselves to them, then the anger of Jehovah shall glow against you; and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which He has given to you.

³⁰ So says Jehovah the God of Israel, I said indeed that your house and your father's house should walk before Me until forever. But now Jehovah says, Be it far from Me! For those who honor Me, I will honor; and those despising Me will be despicable.

¹⁴ I shall be a father to him, and he shall be a son to Me. When he sins, then I will chasten him with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of men. ¹⁵ But My mercy shall not be taken from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. ¹⁶ And your house shall be established, and your kingdom before you forever. Your throne shall be established forever.

⁴ And it happened, at the time Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, like the heart of his father David. ⁵ And Solomon went after Ashtoreth, goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites; ⁶ and Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and did not go fully after Jehovah like his father David. ⁷ Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon; ⁸ and so he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods. ⁹ And Jehovah was angry with Solomon, for his heart had bent away from Jehovah, God of Israel who had appeared to him twice, ¹⁰ and had given a charge to him concerning this thing, not to go after other gods; and he did not keep that which Jehovah commanded.

⁹ And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind. For Jehovah searches out all hearts, and He understands every imagination of thoughts. If you shall seek Him, He shall be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

¹⁹ and if you turn away, and you shall forsake My statutes and My commandments that I have placed before you, and shall go and serve other gods and shall bow yourselves to them, ²⁰ then I shall pluck them up from off My land that I have given them, and this house that I have sanctified for My name I shall cast away from before My face, and I shall give it for a proverb and a byword among all the nations. ²¹ And this house that was on high shall be a wonder to everyone who passes by it, they shall shudder and say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house? ²² And they shall say, Because they have forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and have laid hold on other gods and have bowed themselves to them, and served them; for this He has brought on them all this evil.

² And he went out before Asa, and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. Jehovah is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

³⁰ If his children forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments;

³² then I will visit their transgressions with the rod, and their sins with stripes.

²⁴ Do not defile yourself with all these, for with all these the nations have been defiled, which I am casting out before you; ²⁵ and the land is defiled, and I will visit its iniquity on it; and the land is vomiting out its inhabitants; ²⁶ and you, you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not do any of all these disgusting acts; neither the native nor the alien who is staying in your midst. ²⁷ For the men of the land who are before you have done all these disgusting things, and the land is defiled. ²⁸ Do not do these lest the land vomit you out for your defiling it, as it has vomited out the nation that was before you.

²⁶ I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you today that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land to which you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

³⁷ And you shall be an astonishment, a proverb and a byword among all the peoples where Jehovah shall lead you.

²⁶ For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods which they did not know, and who had not given to them any portion. ²⁷ And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book. ²⁸ And Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger and wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it this day.

³ And Jehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication with which you have made supplication before Me; I have sanctified this house that you have built to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there forever.

²⁰ And Jehovah rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of the plunderers, until He had cast them out from His presence. ²¹ For He tore Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam lured Israel from following Jehovah, and caused them to sin a great sin. ²² And the sons of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam that he did; they did not turn aside from them; ²³ until Jehovah turned away Israel from His face, as He spoke by the hand of all His servants the prophets; and Israel was exiled from off its land to Assyria to this day.

⁹ And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; yea, he burned every great house with fire.

²¹ And the king of Babylon struck them, and killed them in Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he exiled Judah from its land.

²⁰ then I shall pluck them up from off My land that I have given them, and this house that I have sanctified for My name I shall cast away from before My face, and I shall give it for a proverb and a byword among all the nations.

¹⁹ And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; and they burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its beautiful vessels.

¹ And it happened, when Sanballat heard that we built the wall, he was angry, and it was greatly enraging to him, and he mocked the Jews. ² And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they forsake themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they bring to life the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? ³ And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox goes up, he will even break down their stone wall. ⁴ O our God, hear. For we are despised. And turn their curse on their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity.

¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁵ And you shall leave your name for a curse to My chosen. And the Lord Jehovah shall kill you; and He shall call His servants by another name.

⁴ Do not trust yourself to lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah! The temple of Jehovah! This is the temple of Jehovah! ⁵ For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor; ⁶ if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt; ⁷ then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from forever and to forever. ⁸ Behold, you trust for yourself on lying words without being of use. ⁹ Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know? ¹⁰ And will you then come and stand before Me in this house on which My name is called, and say, We are delivered in order to do all those detestable things. ¹¹ Has this house on which My name is called become a den of violent ones in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen, declares Jehovah. ¹² But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the evil of My people Israel. ¹³ And now, because you have done all these works, says Jehovah, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear. Yea, I called you, but you did not answer. ¹⁴ And I will do to the house on which My name is called, in which you are trusting, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. ¹⁵ And I will cast you out from My face as I cast out all your brothers, all the seed of Ephraim.

⁹ I will even make them a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, for a reproach, and a proverb, a gibe, and a curse, there in all places where I will drive them.

⁶ then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

¹⁸ Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah. And he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house like the high places of a forest.

¹³ And he burned the house of Jehovah and the king's house. And he burned all the houses of Jerusalem with fire, and all the houses of the great ones.

⁶ And He violated his booth like a garden and destroyed his meeting-places. Jehovah made meeting-places and sabbaths forgotten in Zion, and He rejected king and priest in the fury of His anger. ⁷ The Lord has cast off His altar; He rejected His holy place. He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hater's hand. They gave a noise in Jehovah's house, as a day of meeting.

¹⁵ All who pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which they called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth? ¹⁶ All your haters have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed up. Surely this is the day for which we waited; we have found; we have seen.

²¹ Speak to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities. And your sons and your daughters whom you have forsaken shall fall by the sword.

²⁷ Say this to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely those in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and I will give the one who is on the face of the field to the beasts to be eaten, and those in the forts and in the caves shall die by the plague. ²⁸ For I shall make the land desolate and a waste, and the pride of her strength shall cease. And the heights of Israel shall be a waste that none will go through. ²⁹ And they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have made the land desolate and a waste because of all their abominations which they have done.

¹⁷ Let the priests, ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar; and let them say, Have pity on Your people, O Jehovah, and do not give Your inheritance to shame, for a proverb among those of the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

¹² Therefore, on account of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house into high places of the forest.

² But Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, There will not at all be left one stone on a stone which in no way will not be thrown down.

²⁴ And they will fall by the mouth of the sword and will be led captive to all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.

²⁴ Yes, all the nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land? For what is the heat of this great anger? ²⁵ Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶ For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods which they did not know, and who had not given to them any portion.

²¹ And this house that was on high shall be a wonder to everyone who passes by it, they shall shudder and say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?

¹¹ The house of our holiness and our beauty where our fathers praised You has become a burning of fire, and all our pleasant things have become a ruin.

⁸ And I will make this city a waste and a hissing. Everyone who passes by shall be amazed and shall hiss because of all its plagues.

⁸ And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall each say to one another, why has Jehovah done this to this great city? ⁹ Then they will answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.

²⁸ Is this man Coniah a despised, broken jar, or a vessel in which is no pleasure? Why are they hurled, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they do not know?

¹⁷ And Edom shall be a ruin, everyone who goes by it shall be amazed and shall hiss at all its plagues.

¹³ Because of the wrath of Jehovah, it shall not be inhabited, but all of it shall be a waste. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be amazed and hiss at all her plagues.

¹² And He has confirmed His words which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judge us, by bringing on us a great evil. For under the whole heavens it has not been done as it has been done to Jerusalem.

²⁵ Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

²² And they shall say, Because they have forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and have laid hold on other gods and have bowed themselves to them, and served them; for this He has brought on them all this evil.

¹⁰ For go to the isles of Kittim and see, and send to Kedar, and carefully consider and see if there is any like this. ¹¹ Has a nation changed its gods, and they were not gods? But My people have changed their Glory without it having profit. ¹² Be amazed at this, O heavens, and be horrified; be completely desolated, declares Jehovah. ¹³ For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

¹⁹ Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your apostasies shall reprove you. Know, then, and see that your forsaking Jehovah your God is evil and bitter; and My fear is not in you, declares the Lord Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁹ And it will be when you shall say, Why does Jehovah our God do all these things to us? Then you shall answer them, Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

⁷ I have forsaken My house; I have left My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies. ⁸ My inheritance has become as a lion in the forest to Me; she gave out her voice against Me; on account of this I hated her.

¹⁰ And it shall be, when you declare to this people all these words, they will say to you, Why has Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity, or what our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God? ¹¹ Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law. ¹² And you have done more evil than your fathers. For, behold, you each one walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to Me. ¹³ And I will cast you out of this land into a land that you do not know, you nor your fathers. And there you shall serve other gods day and night, where I will not grant you favor.

⁷ All who have found them have devoured them. And their enemies said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, and Jehovah, their fathers' hope.

¹⁶ All your haters have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed up. Surely this is the day for which we waited; we have found; we have seen. ¹⁷ Jehovah has done what He purposed; He fulfilled His word which He commanded from days of antiquity. He has dashed and not pitied. And He made the hater to rejoice over you; He raised the horn of your foes.

¹³ Because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the righteous in her midst, ¹⁴ they reeled blind in the streets. They are defiled with blood, so that not any are able to touch their garments. ¹⁵ They cried out to them, Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart! Touch not! Indeed they fled and reeled. They said among the nations, They will not continue to live there.

¹⁷ Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt on their land, they even defiled it by their ways and by their doings. As the defilement of woman's impurity, their way was before Me ¹⁸ So I poured out My fury on them, because of the blood that they had poured out on the land, and for their idols by which they defiled it. ¹⁹ And I scattered them among the nations, and they were sown among the lands; I judged them by their way and by their doings. ²⁰ And when they entered into the nations, there where they went, they even profaned My holy name, by saying to them, These are the people of Jehovah, and they are gone out of His land.

⁴ I will also stretch out My hand on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, the name of the idol worshipers, with the priests; ⁵ and those bowing to the host of the heavens on the housetops; and those bowing, swearing to Jehovah, also swearing by Malcham,

¹ And it happened, as Solomon finished building the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do,

¹ And it happened, at the end of twenty years, Solomon built the house of Jehovah, and his own house. ² As to the cities that Hiram had given to Solomon, Solomon had built them, and he caused the sons of Israel to live there. ³ And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and prevailed over it. ⁴ And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities that he built in Hamath. ⁵ And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the lower, as fortified cities, with walls, two leaved doors, and bars; ⁶ and Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all the desire of Solomon that he wanted to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. ⁷ All the people who were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel, ⁸ (they were of their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel had not exterminated) Solomon caused them to go for forced labor to this day. ⁹ And none of the sons of Israel did Solomon make slaves for his work, but they were men of war, and commanders of his officers, and commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen. ¹⁰ And these were the commanders of the deputies king Solomon had, two hundred and fifty who were rulers among the people. ¹¹ And Solomon had brought up Pharaoh's daughter from the city of David to the house that he had built for her. For he said, My wife shall not live in the house of David the king of Israel, for they are holy, to whom the ark of Jehovah has come. ¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah that he had built before the porch, ¹³ even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the appointed feasts three times in the year, in the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in the Feast of Weeks, and in the Feast of Booths. ¹⁴ And according to the decree of his father David, he made stand the divisions of the priests over their service, and of the Levites over their charges, to praise and to minister before the priests, according to the duty of every day, and the gatekeepers in their courses at every gate, for so was the command of David the man of God. ¹⁵ And they did not turn aside from the king's command as to the priests and the Levites in regard to any matter, and to the treasures. ¹⁶ And all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and until its completion. The house of Jehovah was finished. ¹⁷ And Solomon went to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth on the seacoast, in the land of Edom. ¹⁸ And Hiram sent ships to him by the hand of his servants, and servants who knew the sea. And they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought it to king Solomon.

⁷ And they set apart Kadesh in Galilee, in the hills of Naphtali; and Shechem in the hills of Ephraim; and Kirjath-arba; (it is Hebron) in the hills of Judah.

⁶ And now, command and they shall cut down for me cedars out of Lebanon. And my servants shall be with your servants. And I will give you hire for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is not a man among us knowing to cut timber like the Sidonians. ⁷ And it happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced exceedingly, and said, Blessed be Jehovah today, who has given to David a wise son over this great people. ⁸ And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard that for which you have sent to me. I will do all your will as to cedar wood and fir wood. ⁹ My servants will bring it down from Lebanon to the sea. And I will make floats for them in the sea to go to the place that you tell me. And I will spread them out there; and you shall take them up. And you shall do what I desire, to give food for my house. ¹⁰ And Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees, all his desire.

⁸ And send to me cedar trees, firs, and algums from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut down the trees of Lebanon; and behold, my servants shall be with your servants, ⁹ even to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building will be great and wonderful. ¹⁰ And behold, I shall give beaten wheat to the hewers, to those cutting down the trees, to your servants, twenty thousand kors of beaten wheat and twenty thousand kors of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

¹⁶ And we will cut trees out of Lebanon, according to all your need, and bring them to you by floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall take them up to Jerusalem.

² As to the cities that Hiram had given to Solomon, Solomon had built them, and he caused the sons of Israel to live there.

³⁴ And Balaam said to the Angel of Jehovah, I have sinned, for I did not know that You stood against me in the way. Now if evil is in Your eyes, I will turn back by myself.

³ And his father and his mother said to him, Is there not a woman among the daughters of your brothers, and among all my people, that you must go to take a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she pleases me very much.

²⁷ And it turns toward the rising of the sun to Beth-dagon, and it reaches to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Beth-emek, and Neiel, and goes out to Cabul on the left hand,

¹ And Hiram the king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he heard that they had anointed him king instead of his father. For Hiram was a lover of David all his days. ² And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

⁹ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they delivered up as exiles a complete population to Edom and did not remember the covenant of brothers.

²⁸ and they came to Ophir and took gold from there, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it in to king Solomon.

¹⁰ And she gave to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and very many spices, and precious stones; no spice like that came any more for abundance, that the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

¹⁴ And the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty six talents of gold,

²¹ And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of refined gold; there was none of silver; it was not counted for anything in the days of Solomon;

³³ Then Horam the king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people until there was not left to him a survivor.

¹ And it happened, when Jabin the king of Hazor heard, he sent to Jobab the king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

¹⁰ And they did not expel the Canaanite who lived in Gezer. And the Canaanite lives in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and is serving under tribute.

¹¹ And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher, Beth-shean and its daughter-villages, and Ibleam and its daughter-villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its daughter-villages, and the inhabitants of Endor and its daughter-villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its daughter-villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its daughter-villages; three regions.

³⁶ and Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,

²¹ And they gave them Shechem and its open land in Mount Ephraim as a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer and its open lands,

²⁹ And Ephraim did not expel the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, and the Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.

² And Jehovah sold them into the hand of Jabin the king of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. And his army commander was Sisera; and he lived in Harosheth of the nations.

¹⁹ Kings came; they fought; then the kings of Canaan fought in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of silver.

⁶ And all the leaders of Shechem were gathered together, and all the house of Millo. And they came and caused Abimelech to reign as king at the oak of the outpost which is in Shechem.

²⁰ If not, fire shall come out from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and the house of Millo. And fire shall come out from the leaders of Shechem and from the house of Millo and consume Abimelech.

⁹ And David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built all around from the Millo and inward.

¹² Baana the son of Ahilud to whom was Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean (which is by Zartanah below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, to the place that is beyond Jokneam);

¹³ And king Solomon caused a labor force to go out of all Israel; and the labor force was thirty thousand men.

³⁸ And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, the eighth month, the house was finished as to all its parts, and according to all its plans. So he built it for seven years.

¹⁰ And it happened, at the end of twenty years Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the house of the king.

¹⁶ (Pharaoh the king of Egypt had gone up and had captured Gezer, and had burned it with fire. And he killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon.) ¹⁷ and Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the lower,

²¹ their sons left behind them in the land, whom the sons of Israel had not been able to exterminate, Solomon even caused to go on them a burden of forced labor to this day.

²⁴ But the daughter of Pharaoh went up out of the city of David to her house that he built for her; then he built Millo.

²⁷ And this was the thing for which he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, repairing the breaks of the city of his father David.

²⁷ And Ahaziah the king of Judah saw, and he fled the way of the garden house. And Jehu pursued him, and said, Strike him, him also, in the chariot, in the ascent to Gur, that is, Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.

²⁰ And his servants rose up and made a conspiracy and killed Joash in the house of Millo, which goes down to Silla.

²⁹ In the days of Pekah the king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and removed them to Assyria.

²⁹ In his days Pharaoh-necho the king of Egypt came up against the king of Assyria by the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went out to meet him, and he killed him in Megiddo, when he saw him. ³⁰ And his servants made him ride dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his own grave. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.

⁶⁷ And they gave to them for cities of refuge: Shechem in Mount Ephraim and its open lands; and Gezer and its open lands;

⁴ And it happened after this, that there stood a battle again with the Philistines in Gezer; then Sibbechai the Hushathite killed Sippai of the children of the giant, and they were humbled.

¹ And it happened, at the end of twenty years, Solomon built the house of Jehovah, and his own house.

²² Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself to fight against him, and did not listen to the words of Necho from the mouth of God; and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

¹⁸ Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.

¹¹ In that day the mourning in Jerusalem shall be great, like the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.

¹ And Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh the king of Egypt. And he took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David, until he finished building his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.

⁸ As to his house where he lived, the other court was within the porch, as this work was. Solomon also made a house for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken, like this porch.

¹⁰ and Jehovah troubled them before Israel, and struck them with a great blow at Gibeon, and He pursued by the way of the ascent of Bethhoron, and struck them to Azekah, and to Makkedah.

³ and went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth-horon the lower, and to Gezer, and its boundary line was at the sea.

⁴⁴ and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,

²² And Kibzaim and its open lands, and Beth-horon and its open lands; four cities.

⁴ And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities that he built in Hamath.

¹¹ And they put over them slave-masters in order to afflict them with their burdens. And he built store cities for Pharaoh: Pithon and Raamses.

²⁶ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. ²⁷ And those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, a man in his month. they did not lack anything. ²⁸ They also brought barley and straw for the horses and mules to the place where the officers were, each man according to his charge.

²⁶ And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen, and he had a thousand, four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he placed them in the cities of the chariots, and with the king in Jerusalem.

¹⁴ And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had a thousand, four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he placed them in the chariot cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.

¹⁹ the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, ²⁰ and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the giants, ²¹ and the Amorite and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

²³ For My Angel shall go before you and bring you in to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.

²⁸ And I will send hornets before you which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you. ²⁹ I will not drive them out from before you in one year, that the land not become a waste, and the beast of the field multiply on you. ³⁰ I will drive them out before you little by little, until you are fruitful and possess the land. ³¹ And I will set your border from the Sea of Reeds as far as the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness as far as the River. For I will give the people of the land into your hand. And you shall drive them out before you. ³² You shall not cut a covenant for them and for their gods. ³³ They shall not dwell in your land, lest they cause you to sin towards Me. Surely when you serve their gods, it will be a snare to you.

¹¹ Take heed for yourself what I am commanding you today. Behold, I am about to drive out from before your face the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ¹² Take heed to yourself, hat you not cut a covenant with the people of the land to which you are going in, that it not be a snare in your midst.

¹ When Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land to which you are going, to possess it, and He casts out many nations from before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations larger and mightier than you; ² And when Jehovah your God shall give them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them; you shall not cut a covenant with them, nor show mercy to them; ³ nor shall you intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter to your son.

²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a slave of slaves to his brothers. ²⁶ And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; and may Canaan be his slave.

⁶³ As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out. But the Jebusites dwell with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

¹² But the sons of Manasseh had not been able to occupy these cities, for the Canaanite determined to live in this land.

¹⁶ And the sons of Joseph said, The hills will not be found for us. And every Canaanite who lives in the land of the valley has a chariot of iron, those that are of Beth-shean and its daughter-villages, and of him who is in the valley of Jezreel. ¹⁷ And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, You are a numerous people, and have great power; you shall not have one lot, ¹⁸ because the hill is yours; because it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and its outer limits shall be yours; for you shall expel the Canaanite, even though it has chariots of iron; even though it is strong.

²¹ And the sons of Benjamin did not expel the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. And the Jebusites live with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem until this day.

²⁷ And Manasseh had not occupied Beth-shean and its daughter-villages; or Taanach and its daughter-villages nor struck the inhabitants of Dor and its daughter-villages; or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its daughter-villages; or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its daughter-villages. For the Canaanites desired to live in that land. ²⁸ But it happened when Israel became strong, it happened that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not completely expel it. ²⁹ And Ephraim did not expel the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, and the Canaanites lived among them in Gezer. ³⁰ Zebulun did not expel the inhabitants of Kitron, and the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and they became burden-bearers. ³¹ And Asher did not expel the inhabitants of Accho, and the inhabitants of Sidon, and Ahlab, and Achzib, and Helbah, and Aphik, and Rehob. ³² And the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not expel them. ³³ Naphtali did not expel the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, and the inhabitants of Beth-anath, and they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. But the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became burden bearers to them. ³⁴ And the Amorites pressed the sons of Dan into the hills, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley. ³⁵ But the Amorites were determined to live in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became burden-bearers.

²⁰ And the anger of Jehovah glowed against Israel. And He said, Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice,

¹⁵ And this is the reason of the labor force that king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

⁵⁵ The sons of Solomon's servants: The sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Peruda, ⁵⁶ the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel, ⁵⁷ the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil the sons of Pochereth of Zebaim, the sons of Ami. ⁵⁸ All the temple-slaves, and the sons of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety two.

⁵⁷ of the sons of Solomon's servants, the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,

³ And these are the rulers of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah, a man lived in his possession in their cities; Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the temple-slaves, and the sons of Solomon's servants.

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah said to them, ³⁵ but mixed with the nations, and learned their works. ³⁶ And they served their idols, and they became a snare to them.

³⁹ And when your brother becomes poor with you, and he has been sold to you, you shall not lay on him the service of a slave.

¹¹ And he said, This is the privilege of the king who shall reign over you. He shall take your sons and shall appoint them for himself among his chariots, and among his horsemen. And they shall run before his chariots. ¹² And he will appoint for himself heads of thousands, and heads of fifties; and to plow his plowing, and to reap his reaping; and to make weapons for war for him, and weapons for his charioteer.

¹ And king Solomon was king over all Israel. ² And these were the rulers he had: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest. ³ Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, were the scribes, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud the recorder. ⁴ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army. And Zadok and Abiathar were priests. ⁵ And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers. And Zabud the son of Nathan was the minister and friend of the king. ⁶ And Ahishar was over the household. And Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor. ⁷ And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel. And they sustained the king and his household. Each man had one month in the year to provide. ⁸ And these are their names: Ben-hur in the hills of Ephraim; ⁹ the son of Dekar in Makaz and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan; ¹⁰ the son of Hesed, in Aruboth (to him was Sochoh and all the land of Hepher); ¹¹ the son of Abinadab in all the height of Dor, Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife; ¹² Baana the son of Ahilud to whom was Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean (which is by Zartanah below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, to the place that is beyond Jokneam); ¹³ the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead (to him were the towns of Jair, Manasseh's son, which are in Gilead; and to him was the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); ¹⁴ Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim; ¹⁵ Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon for a wife; ¹⁶ Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth; ¹⁷ Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah was in Issachar; ¹⁸ Shimei the son of Elah was in Benjamin; ¹⁹ Geber the son of Uri was in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan; and there was one officer who was in the land; ²⁰ Judah and Israel were many, as the sand the sea in multitude; eating and drinking and rejoicing. ²¹ And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought presents and served Solomon all the days of his life. ²² And Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, ²³ ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides deer and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl. ²⁴ For he had the rule over all on this side of the River, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side of the River. And he had peace on all sides from around him. ²⁵ And Judah and Israel lived securely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree; from Dan even to Beersheba all the days of Solomon. ²⁶ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. ²⁷ And those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, a man in his month. they did not lack anything.

⁹ And none of the sons of Israel did Solomon make slaves for his work, but they were men of war, and commanders of his officers, and commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen. ¹⁰ And these were the commanders of the deputies king Solomon had, two hundred and fifty who were rulers among the people.

¹⁶ besides the rulers of Solomon's overseers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, those ruling over the people who were working in the work.

¹⁸ and he made seventy thousand of them burden bearers, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountain, and three thousand, six hundred to oversee to cause the people to work.

¹⁰ And these were the commanders of the deputies king Solomon had, two hundred and fifty who were rulers among the people.

¹⁵ And this is the reason of the labor force that king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. ¹⁶ (Pharaoh the king of Egypt had gone up and had captured Gezer, and had burned it with fire. And he killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon.)

¹¹ And Solomon had brought up Pharaoh's daughter from the city of David to the house that he had built for her. For he said, My wife shall not live in the house of David the king of Israel, for they are holy, to whom the ark of Jehovah has come.

⁵ And he made himself strong and built all the wall that was broken, and raised on it the towers, and another at the outside of the wall, and strengthened Millo, the city of David, and made darts in abundance, and shields.

¹⁴ Three times in the year you shall make a feast to Me. ¹⁵ You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread . Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the set time of the month of Abib. For in it you came out from Egypt, and they shall not appear before Me empty. ¹⁶ Also the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. Also the Feast of Ingathering, at the end of the year, at your gathering your work from the field. ¹⁷ Three times in the year every one of your males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.

⁷ And Aaron shall burn incense of perfume on it morning by morning; when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it.

²³ Three times in the year every male of yours shall be seen before the face of the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.

¹⁶ Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He shall choose: In the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in the Feast of Weeks and in the Feast of Tabernacles. And they shall not appear before Jehovah empty,

³⁸ And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, the eighth month, the house was finished as to all its parts, and according to all its plans. So he built it for seven years.

¹³ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was separated so that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons perpetually to burn incense before Jehovah, to minister to Him and to bless in His name perpetually.

¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah that he had built before the porch, ¹³ even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the appointed feasts three times in the year, in the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in the Feast of Weeks, and in the Feast of Booths.

¹⁶ And all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and until its completion. The house of Jehovah was finished.

¹⁶ And when he became strong, his heart was lifted up to act corruptly; and he trespassed against Jehovah his God, and went in to the temple of Jehovah to burn incense on the altar of incense. ¹⁷ And Azariah the priest went in after him, and eighty priests of Jehovah with him, sons of valor; ¹⁸ and they stood up against Uzziah the king, and said to him, It is not for you, O Uzziah, to burn incense to Jehovah, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are sanctified to burn incense; go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed; and it is not to your honor from Jehovah God. ¹⁹ And Uzziah was angry, and in his hand was a censer to burn incense; and when he was angry with the priests, the leprosy rose in his forehead, before the priests, in the house of Jehovah, beside the altar of incense. ²⁰ And Azariah the head priest and all the priests turned toward him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead. And they hurried him from there, and he also himself hurried to leave, for Jehovah had touched him. ²¹ And Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house as a leper, for he had been cut off from the house of Jehovah; and his son Jotham was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.

¹¹ Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for Jehovah has chosen you to stand before His face, to serve Him and to be ministers and incense burners for Him.

²⁵ because they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods so as to provoke Me with all the works of their hands; and My wrath shall be poured out on this place, and it shall not be quenched.

³⁵ And they pulled up from Ebronah and camped in Ezion-geber.

⁸ And we passed on from our brothers, the sons of Esau, those living in Seir, by the way of the Arabah, by Elath, and by Eziongeber, we turned and passed on by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

⁴⁸ Jehoshaphat had ten ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold. But they did not go, for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.

²² He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.

¹¹ And Solomon had brought up Pharaoh's daughter from the city of David to the house that he had built for her. For he said, My wife shall not live in the house of David the king of Israel, for they are holy, to whom the ark of Jehovah has come. ¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah that he had built before the porch,

⁶ And now, command and they shall cut down for me cedars out of Lebanon. And my servants shall be with your servants. And I will give you hire for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is not a man among us knowing to cut timber like the Sidonians.

⁹ My servants will bring it down from Lebanon to the sea. And I will make floats for them in the sea to go to the place that you tell me. And I will spread them out there; and you shall take them up. And you shall do what I desire, to give food for my house.

¹¹ And also, the navy of Hiram that bore gold from Ophir brought in from Ophir almug trees, a great many, and precious stones;

⁴⁹ Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat was not willing.

³⁶ And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Eziongeber. ³⁷ And Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Jehovah has broken your works. And the ships were broken, so that they did not hold to go to Tarshish.

²⁹ and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. These all were the sons of Joktan.

⁴ three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir; and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses;

¹⁸ And Hiram sent ships to him by the hand of his servants, and servants who knew the sea. And they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought it to king Solomon.

¹⁰ And also the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought in gold from Ophir, brought in algum trees and precious stones.

²⁴ Then you shall lay gold on the dust, even among the rocks of the torrents of Ophir.

¹⁶ It cannot be weighed against the gold of Ophir, against precious onyx, or sapphire;

⁹ King's daughters are among Your precious ones; the queen stands at Your right hand in gold of Ophir.

¹² I will make a man more rare than fine gold; even a man more than the carvings of Ophir.