Solomon in the Bible

Meaning: peaceable; perfect; one who recompenses

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And these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. And Shishak king of Egypt took them, when he went up to Jerusalem in the days of Rehoboam son of Solomon.

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In ArtefactsGoldOfficersShields

And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.

Verse ConceptsOne FleshComfort, Of FriendsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenThe Promise Of A Baby

But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.

Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?

Verse ConceptsMothers Of KingsIgnorant Of FactsMothers And Sons

Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

Verse ConceptsKeeping Oneself AliveMan's Counsel

Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?

Verse ConceptsSittingThrone

And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.

And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.

Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenWe Have Sinned

But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.

Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.

Verse ConceptsSolomon, Life Of

The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:

Verse ConceptsMulesBackRiding Mules

And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetAnointing KingsTrumpets For CelebrationNamed Prophets Of The Lord

As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific PeopleThe Kingdom Of Solomon

So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.

Verse ConceptsMulesBodyguardsRiding MulesNamed Prophets Of The Lord

And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.

And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have had him ride on the king’s mule.

Verse ConceptsMulesRiding Mules

And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

Verse ConceptsBowingBowing Before GodThe Kingdom Of Solomon

And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.

Verse ConceptsFear Of IndividualsPeople Bound By Oaths

And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.

Verse ConceptsMercy, Examples OfHeadsHairs ProtectedHair

So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house.

And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.

Verse ConceptsMothers Of Kings

And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.

Verse ConceptsInfatuationTransferring Wives

Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.

Verse ConceptsQueensRespect, For Human BeingsThroneRight Sides

And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

Verse ConceptsBrothersThe Kingdom Of Others

Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.

Verse ConceptsPromises, Human

And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.

Verse ConceptsMurder

So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

Verse ConceptsPriesthood, In OtDeposed Priests

And, the report, came unto Joab, for, Joab, had inclined after Adonijah, although, after Solomon, he had not inclined, - so then Joab fled into the Tent of Yahweh, and laid hold of the horns of the altar.

Verse ConceptsHornsConspiracy

And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

Verse ConceptsDeath penalty

And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.

So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTKilling Named IndividualsThe Kingdom Of Solomon

And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersFortificationsAliancesCityBuildingJerusalem, History OfKingsPolygamySolomon, Character OfSolomon, Life OfWallsBuilding Jerusalem's WallBuilding Relationships

And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered AmissThose Loving GodSacrificing On The High Places

And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanOfferingsPilgrimageSacrifice, In OtA Thousand AnimalsSacrifice On The Bronze Altar

And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtKindnessRighteousness, Of BelieversSittingThroneCharacter Of SaintsGod Showed His Lovingkindness

And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

Verse ConceptsFeastingBanquets, Examples OfLeisure, And PastimesThe Ark In The TempleArk Of The Covenant

And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveGovernorsSolomon, Life OfStoringYearsDerisionOne MonthPeople ProvidingTwelve Beings

The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:

Verse ConceptsNamed Wives

And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesGrain OfferingKingdomsRivers And StreamsSolomon, Character OfTaxationTributesThose Subjected To PeopleAs Far As The Euphrates

And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, Dry

And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

Verse ConceptsFig treeInvitationsSafetyVines

And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsTables

And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Source Of HumanOutdoing

And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.

Verse ConceptsAll NationsKings And Wisdom

And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.

Verse ConceptsGood FriendsenvoyFriendship, Examples OfAnointing Kings

And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human ImportanceRejoicing In God's WordBlessed Be God!

And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.

Verse ConceptsCommerceCedar Wood

And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DryWeights And Measures, LiquidWheatCommerceEvery Year

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

Verse ConceptsStonesFifty To Ninety Thousand

Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

Verse ConceptsOverseersThree Thousand And Up

And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

Verse ConceptsCarpentersBuildingHousesImmigrantscraftsmanshipconstruction

And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

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And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

Verse ConceptsBreadthBuildingHeightDimensions Of Buildingsfreemasonry

Solomon also constructed windows in the Temple with specially designed frames.

Verse ConceptsWindows For The Temple

So Solomon built the house (temple) and finished it, and roofed the house with beams and boards of cedar.

Verse ConceptsBuildingBoardsOverlaid With WoodCedar Wood

Solomon also prepared an inner sanctuary within the Temple where the LORD's Ark of the Covenant was placed.

Verse ConceptsMost Holy PlaceSanctuaryThe Ark In The Temple

So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

Verse ConceptsChainsGold ChainsOverlaid With GoldGold Items For The Tabernacl

Inside the inner sanctuary Solomon placed two cherubim crafted from olive wood, each ten cubits high.

Verse ConceptsWoodDimensions Of Temple FurnitureTwo AngelsCherubim Depicted

Solomon placed the cherubim in the middle of the inner sanctuary, with their wings spread in such a way that the wing of one was touching the one wall and the opposite wing of the other cherub was touching the opposite wall. Furthermore, their wings in the center of the wall were touching each other wing-to-wing.

Verse ConceptsWallsAngel's Wings

Solomon also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

Verse ConceptsGoldOverlaid With Gold

Solomon also inlaid all the inner walls of the Temple both the inner and outer sanctuaries with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and blooming flowers.

Verse ConceptsFlowersCarvings Of FlowersSculptureCherubim, As DecorationsCherubim Depicted

Solomon also provided doors, lintels, and five-sided doorposts for the entrance to the inner sanctuary.

Solomon also provided four-sided doorposts made of cypress wood for the entrance to the outer sanctuary,

Verse ConceptsFourfold

Solomon also inlaid the doors with cherubim, palm trees, and blooming flowers. He overlaid them with gold that was carefully applied on the engraved work.

Verse ConceptsCarvingOverlaid With GoldCherubim Depicted

The foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid in Solomon’s fourth year in the month of Ziv.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsMonthMonth 2Foundations Of Buildings

and the Temple was completely finished according to its plans and specifications in the eighth month of the eleventh year of Solomon's reign, that is, during the month of Bul. It took about seven years to build.

Verse ConceptsMonthNew Year, TheMonth 8Seven YearsMan's Work Finished

And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.

He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.

Verse ConceptsBrassActual Widowscraftsmanship

And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsBasinsShovelsProvision Of Temple UtensilsMan's Work Finished

And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.

Verse ConceptsHoly VesselsShovelsSacred VesselsProvision Of Temple UtensilsWeedpot

And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.

Verse ConceptsBrassAmassing Bronze

And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,

Verse ConceptsTablesGold Items For The Tabernacl

So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.

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Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children 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.

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And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

Verse ConceptsMonthNew Year, TheAutumnMonth 7

And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

Verse ConceptsSheepUncountableMany CreaturesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

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The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.









































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yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.



Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.


















































































































































and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,