10When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relation to the name of the Lord , she came to test him with hard questions. 2Arriving at Jerusalem with a very great caravan-with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and...
9When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do, 2the Lord appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3The Lord said to him: I have heard the prayer a...
8Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord 's covenant from Zion, the City of David. 2All the men of Israel c...
7It took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the construction of his palace. 2He built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty wide and thirty high, with four rows of cedar columns supporting trimmed cedar beams. 3It...
6In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the Lord . 2The temple that King Solomon bui...
5When Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king to succeed his father David, he sent his envoys to Solomon, because he had always been on friendly terms with David. 2Solomon sent back this message to Hiram: 3You know that because...
4So King Solomon ruled over all Israel. 2And these were his chief officials: Azariah son of Zadok-the priest; 3Elihoreph and Ahijah, sons of Shisha-secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud-recorder; 4Benaiah son of Jehoiada-commander in chief; Zadok an...
3Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt and married his daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he finished building his palace and the temple of the Lord , and the wall around Jerusalem. 2The people, however, were still sacr...
2When the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to Solomon his son. 2I am about to go the way of all the earth, he said. So be strong, show yourself a man, 3and observe what the Lord your God requires: Walk in his ways, and keep his decre...
1When King David was old and well advanced in years, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. 2So his servants said to him, Let us look for a young virgin to attend the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our l...
