that they may have compassion on them
008:051 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought
forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);
008:052 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant,
and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen
to them whenever they cry to you.
008:053 For you did separate them from among all the peoples of the earth,
to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant,
when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.
008:054 It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all
this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before
the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands
spread forth toward heaven.
008:055 He stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a
loud voice, saying,
008:056 Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel,
according to all that he promised: there has not failed
one word of all his good promise, which he promised by
Moses his servant.
008:057 Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers:
let him not leave us, nor forsake us;
008:058 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways,
and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances,
which he commanded our fathers.
008:059 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication
before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night,
that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause
of his people Israel, as every day shall require;
008:060 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God;
there is none else.
008:061 Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God,
to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments,
as at this day.
008:062 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.
008:063 Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings,
which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand oxen,
and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all
the children of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh.
008:064 The same day did the king make the middle of the court holy
that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered
the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat
of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was
before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering,
and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.
008:065 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him,
a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook
of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days,
even fourteen days.
008:066 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed
the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart
for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant,
and to Israel his people.
009:001 It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house
of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire
which he was pleased to do,
009:002 that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had
appeared to him at Gibeon.
009:003 Yahweh said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication,
that you have made before me: I have made this house holy,
which you have built, to put my name there forever;
and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
009:004 As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked,
in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according
to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes
and my ordinances;
009:005 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever,
according as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall
not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
009:006 But if you shall turn away from following me, you or your children,
and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I
have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods,
and worship them;
009:007 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them;
and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast
out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all peoples.
009:008 Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes
by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say,
Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?
009:009 and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God,
who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt,
and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them:
therefore has Yahweh brought all this evil on them.
009:010 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had
built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house
009:011 (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar
trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all
his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities
in the land of Galilee.
009:012 Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had
given him; and they didn't please him.
009:013 He said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?
He called them the land of Cabul to this day.
009:014 Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
009:015 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised,
to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo,
and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
009:016 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt
it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city,
and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
009:017 Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,
009:018 and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
009:019 and all the storage 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.
009:020 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites,
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
who were not of the children of Israel;
009:021 their children who were left after them in the land,
whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy,
of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.
009:022 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants;
but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes,
and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
009:023 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work,
five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored
in the work.
009:024 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David
to her house which [Solomon] had built for her:
then did he build Millo.
009:025 Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings
and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh,
burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh.
So he finished the house.
009:026 King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is
beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds},
in the land of Edom.
009:027 Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge
of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
009:028 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred
and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
010:001 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning
the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.
010:002 She came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels
that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones;
and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all
that was in her heart.
010:003 Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything
hidden from the king which he didn't tell her.
010:004 When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon,
and the house that he had built,
010:005 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants,
and the attendance of his ministers, and their clothing,
and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up
to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.
010:006 She said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my
own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.
010:007 However I didn't believe the words, until I came, and my
eyes had seen it: and behold, the half was not told me;
your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.
010:008 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand
continually before you, [and] who hear your wisdom.
010:009 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you
on the throne of Israel: because Yahweh loved Israel forever,
therefore made he you king, to do justice and righteousness.
010:010 She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold,
and of spices very great store, and precious stones:
there came no more such abundance of spices as these which
the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
010:011 The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in
from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones.
010:012 The king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of Yahweh,
and for the king's house, harps also and stringed instruments
for the singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen,
to this day.
010:013 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of
his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land,
she and her servants.
010:014 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six
hundred sixty-six talents of gold,
010:015 besides [that which] the traders [brought], and the traffic
of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people,
and of the governors of the country.
010:016 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold;
six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.
010:017 [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas
of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house
of the forest of Lebanon.
010:018 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid
it with the finest gold.
010:019 There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was
round behind; and there were stays on either side by the place
of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.
010:020 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on
the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
010:021 All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels
of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold:
none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the
days of Solomon.
010:022 For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram:
once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold,
and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
010:023 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches
and in wisdom.
010:024 All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom,
which God had put in his heart.
010:025 They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels
of gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules,
a rate year by year.
010:026 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.
010:027 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones,
and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are
in the lowland, for abundance.
010:028 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt;
and the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove
at a price.
010:029 A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred
[shekels] of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty;
and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings
of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
011:001 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter
of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians,
and Hittites;
011:002 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children
of Israel, You shall not go among them, neither shall they
come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart
after their gods: Solomon joined to these in love.
011:003 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines;
and his wives turned away his heart.
011:004 For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned
away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect
with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.
011:005 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians,
and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
011:006 Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh,
and didn't go fully after Yahweh, as did David his father.
011:007 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination
of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for
Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
011:008 So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and
sacrificed to their gods.
011:009 Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away
from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
011:010 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go
after other gods: but he didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded.
011:011 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Because this is done of you,
and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I
have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you,
and will give it to your servant.
011:012 Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David
your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand
of your son.
011:013 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will
give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake,
and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
011:014 Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite:
he was of the king's seed in Edom.
011:015 For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain
of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck
every male in Edom
011:016 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had
cut off every male in Edom);
011:017 that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants
with him, to go into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child.
011:018 They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men
with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh
king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food,
and gave him land.
011:019 Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that
he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister
of Tahpenes the queen.
011:020 The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes
weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's
house among the sons of Pharaoh.
011:021 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers,
and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said
to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.
011:022 Then Pharaoh said to him, But what have you lacked with me,
that behold, you seek to go to your own country?
He answered, Nothing: however only let me depart.
011:023 God raised up [another] adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada,
who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.
011:024 He gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop,
when David killed them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus,
and lived therein, and reigned in Damascus.
011:025 He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon,
besides the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel,
and reigned over Syria.
011:026 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah,
a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow,
he also lifted up his hand against the king.
011:027 This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king:
Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city
of David his father.
011:028 The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw
the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge
over all the labor of the house of Joseph.
011:029 It happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem,
that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way;
now [Ahijah] had clad himself with a new garment; and they
two were alone in the field.
011:030 Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore
it in twelve pieces.
011:031 He said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces; for thus says Yahweh,
the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of
the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you
011:032 (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David's sake
and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out
of all the tribes of Israel);
011:033 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped
Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god
of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon;
and they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right
in my eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my ordinances,
as did David his father.
011:034 However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand;
but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David
my servant's sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments
and my statutes;
011:035 but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will
give it to you, even ten tribes.
011:036 To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may
have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I
have chosen me to put my name there.
011:037 I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your
soul desires, and shall be king over Israel.
011:038 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you,
and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes,
to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did;
that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house,
as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
011:039 I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever.
011:040 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose,
and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt
until the death of Solomon.
011:041 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did,
and his wisdom, aren't they written in the book of the
acts of Solomon?
011:042 The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel
was forty years.
011:043 Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city
of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
012:001 Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem
to make him king.
012:002 It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it
(for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence
of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,
012:003 and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the assembly
of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
012:004 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you
the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke
which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.
012:005 He said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me.
The people departed.
012:006 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before
Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel
give you me to return answer to this people?
012:007 They spoke to him, saying, If you will be a servant to this
people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak
good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.
012:008 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him,
who stood before him.
012:009 He said to them, What counsel do you give, that we may return answer
to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke
that your father did put on us lighter?
012:010 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying,
Thus shall you tell this people who spoke to you, saying,
Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us;
thus shall you speak to them, My little finger is thicker
than my father's waist.
012:011 Now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke,
I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips,
but I will chastise you with scorpions.
012:012 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day,
as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.
012:013 The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel
of the old men which they had given him,
012:014 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying,
My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke:
my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise
you with scorpions.
012:015 So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was a thing
brought about of Yahweh, that he might establish his word,
which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam
the son of Nebat.
012:016 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them,
the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we
in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse:
to your tents, Israel: now see to your own house, David.
So Israel departed to their tents.
012:017 But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities
of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
012:018 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject
to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones.
King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot,
to flee to Jerusalem.
012:019 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
012:020 It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned,
that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him
king over all Israel: there was none who followed the house
of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
012:021 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house
of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty
thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against
the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam
the son of Solomon.
012:022 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
012:023 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah,
and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest
of the people, saying,
012:024 Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your
brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house;
for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh,
and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh.
012:025 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim,
and lived therein; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.
012:026 Jeroboam said in his heart, Now will the kingdom return
to the house of David:
012:027 if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house
of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people
turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah;
and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.
012:028 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold;
and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem:
see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the
land of Egypt.
012:029 He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
012:030 This thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship]
before the one, even to Dan.
012:031 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among
all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
012:032 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth
day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went
up to the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves
that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests
of the high places that he had made.
012:033 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on
the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month
which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained
a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar,
to burn incense.
013:001 Behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word
of Yahweh to Beth El: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar
to burn incense.
013:002 He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said,