Solomon's other buildings.

I. KINGS.

Hiram's works of the temple.

lars and the thick beam were before them. and he set up the left pillar, and called the 7¶ Then he made a porch for the throne name thereof Boaz. where he might judge, even the porch of 22 And upon the top of the pillars was judgment and it was covered with cedar lily-work: so was the work of the pillars from one side of the floor to the other. finished.

8 T And his house where he dwelt had 23 ¶ And he made a molten sea, ten another court within the porch, which was cubits from the one brim to the other: it of the like work. Solomon made also a was round all about, and his height was house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did had taken to wife, like unto this porch. compass it round about. 9 All these were of costly stones, ac- 24 And under the brim of it round about cording to the measures of hewed stones, there were knops compassing it, ten in a sawed with saws, within and without, even cubit, compassing the sea round about: from the foundation unto the coping, and the knops were cast in two rows, when it so on the outside toward the great court. was cast.

10 And the foundation was of costly 25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three stones, even great stones; stones of ten looking toward the north, and three lookcubits, and stones of eight cubits. ing toward the west, and three looking

11 And above were costly stones, after toward the south, and three looking tothe measures of hewed stones, and cedars. ward the east: and the sea was set above 12 And the great court round about was upon them, and all their hinder parts were with three rows of hewed stones, and a inward. row of cedar beams, both for the inner 26 And it was a hand-breadth thick, court of the house of the LORD, and for and the brim thereof was wrought like the the porch of the house. brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it

13 T And king Solomon sent and fetch-contained two thousand baths. ed Hiram out of Tyre. 27¶ And he made ten bases of brass; 14 He was a widow's son of the tribe four cubits was the length of one base, of Naphtali, and his father was a man of and four cubits the breadth thereof, and Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled three cubits the height of it. with wisdom, and understanding, and cun- 28 And the work of the bases was on ning to work all works in brass. And he this manner: They had borders, and the came to king Solomon, and wrought all his borders were between the ledges: work. 29 And on the borders that were between 15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of and upon the ledges there was a base above: twelve cubits did compass either of them and beneath the lions and oxen were cerabout. tain additions made of thin work.

16 And he made two chapiters of molten 30 And every base had four brazen brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: wheels, and plates of brass: and the four the height of the one chapiter was five cu- corners thereof had undersetters: under bits, and the height of the other chapiter the laver were undersetters molten, at the was five cubits: side of every addition.

17 And nets of checker-work, and 31 And the mouth of it within the chapiwreaths of chain-work, for the chapiters ter and above was a cubit: but the mouth which were upon the top of the pillars; thereof was round after the work of the seven for the one chapiter, and seven for base, a cubit and a half: and also upon the other chapiter. the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, four-square, not round.

18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one net-work, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

19 And the chapiters that were upon the 33 And the work of the wheels was like top of the pillars were of lily-work in the the work of a chariot wheel: their axleporch, four cubits. trees, and their naves, and their felloes, 20 And the chapiters upon the two pil- and their spokes, were all molten. lars had pomegranates also above, over 34 And there were four undersetters to against the belly which was by the net- the four corners of one base: and the unwork and the pomegranates were two dersetters were of the very base itself. hundred in rows round about upon the 35 And in the top of the base was there other chapiter. a round compass of half a cubit high: and on 21 And he set up the pillars in the porch the top of the base the ledges thereof and of the temple: and he set up the right the borders thereof were of the same. pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: 36 For on the plates of the ledges

CHAP. VIII. The dedication of the temple.

thereof, and on the borders thereof, he he put among the treasures of the house of graved cherubims, lions, and palm-trees, the LORD. according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.

THEN Solomon assembled the elders 37 After this manner he made the ten of Israel, and all the heads of the bases: all of them had one casting, one tribes, the chief of the fathers of the chilmeasure, and one size. dren of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

2 And all the men of Israel assembled 39 And he put five bases on the right themselves unto king Solomon at the feast side of the house, and five on the left side in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh of the house and he set the sea on the month. right side of the house eastward, over against the south.

41 The two pillars, and the two bowls 5 And king Solomon, and all the conof the chapiters that were on the top of the gregation of Israel, that were assembled two pillars; and the two net-works, to unto him, were with him before the ark, cover the two bowls of the chapiters which sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not were upon the top of the pillars; be told nor numbered for multitude.

50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the cen- 13 I have surely built thee a house to sers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide both for the doors of the inner house, the in for ever.

most holy place, and for the doors of the 14 And the king turned his face about, house, to wit, of the temple. and blessed all the congregation of Israel: 51 So was ended all the work that king and all the congregation of Israel stood; Solomon made for the house of the LORD. 15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD And Solomon brought in the things which God of Israel, which spake with his mouth David his father had dedicated: even the unto David my father, and hath with his silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did hand fulfilled it, saying,

The prayer of Solomon,

I. KINGS.

and his thanksgiving.

16 Since the day that I brought forth 30 And hearken thou to the supplication my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, city out of all the tribes of Israel to build when they shall pray toward this place: a house, that my name might be therein; and hear thou in heaven thy dwellingbut I chose David to be over my people place: and when thou hearest, forgive. Israel. 31 If any man trespass against his 17 And it was in the heart of David my neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him father to build a house for the name of to cause him to swear, and the oath come the LORD God of Israel. before thine altar in this house :

18 And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart.

19 Nevertheless, thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in

20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the this house: throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

22 ¶ And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.

35¶When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy peo23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, ple Israel, that thou teach them the good there is no God like thee, in heaven above, way wherein they should walk, and give or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant rain upon thy land, which thou hast given and mercy with thy servants that walk be- to thy people for an inheritance. fore thee with all their heart:

37 If there be in the land famine, if

24 Who hast kept with thy servant Da- there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, lovid my father that thou promisedst him: cust, or if there be caterpillar; if their thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast enemy besiege them in the land of their fulfilled it with thy hand, as it is this day. cities, whatsoever plague, whatsoever sick25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, ness there be;

keep with thy servant David my father that 38 What prayer and supplication soever thou promisedst him, saying, There shall be made by any man, or by all thy people not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the Israel, which shall know every man the throne of Israel; so that thy children take plague of his own heart, and spread forth heed to their way, that they walk before his hands toward this house: me as thou hast walked before me.

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39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwell

26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy ing-place, and forgive, and do, and give word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou to every man according to his ways, whose spakest unto thy servant David my father. heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou 27 But will God indeed dwell on the only, knowest the hearts of all the children earth? behold the heaven and heaven of of men ;) heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O 41 Moreover, concerning a stranger, that LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out and to the prayer, which thy servant pray- of a far country for thy name's sake; eth before thee to-day : 42 (For they shall hear of thy great 29 That thine eyes may be open to- name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy ward this house night and day, even to- stretched-out arm;) when he shall come ward the place of which thou hast said, and pray toward this house; My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant place, and do according to all that the shall make toward this place. stranger calleth to thee for: that all peo

43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling