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Then came there two women, that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him.

Verse ConceptsProstitutionTwo Women

And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save us two in the house.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The Week

When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. That morning, when I looked closely at him I realized that he was not the son I gave birth to.”

Verse ConceptsMorningNursesWho Is This?Not The OneDeath Of A Childsisterhood

Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead; and the other saith, No; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.

Verse ConceptsContradicting

The woman whose child was still alive cried out to the king, because her heart yearned for her son. "Oh no, your majesty!" she said. "Give her the living child. Please don't kill him." But the other woman said, "Cut him in half! That way, he'll belong to neither one of us."

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldMercy, HumanBowelsHalf Of BodiesPeople Showing MercyMothers Love For Her ChildrenHaving A Babybaby

And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.

Verse ConceptsGod, Wisdom OfJudging OthersShrewdnessWisdom, Human ImportanceFear Of Individuals

And so it came to pass, that, King Solomon, was king, over all Israel.

Verse ConceptsRank

Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even to the place that is beyond Jokneam:

Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead, including the towns that belonged to Manasseh's descendant Jair that are in Gilead;

Verse ConceptsFortressesCityLargenessBrassSixtiesCities In IsraelWalled TownsBronze GatesGrandmothers

Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer that was in the land.

Verse ConceptsGovernors

Judah and Israel, were many, as the sand that is by the sea, for multitude, - eating and drinking, and rejoicing.

Verse ConceptsHappinessSandTribes Of IsraelMany In IsraelSand And GravelEating Drinking And Rejoicing

And it came to pass, that Solomon's provision for one day was, - thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal;

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, Dry

Solomon owned 40,000 stalls for the horses that drove his chariots, and he employed 12,000 men to drive them.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalHorsesMangersCavalryEleven To Nineteen ThousandForty Thousand And UpAcquiring Horses

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

Verse ConceptsGovernorsTables

so that, the wisdom of Solomon, excelled, the wisdom of all the sons of the East, - and all the wisdom of the Egyptians,

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Source Of HumanOutdoing

so that he was wiser than any man - than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, sons of Mahol, - and it came to pass that, his name, was throughout all the nations round about.

Verse ConceptsFame

And he spake three thousand proverbs, - and it came to pass that, his songs, were a thousand and five.

Verse ConceptsSolomon, Character OfThousandsThree Thousand And UpWriting SongsComposersWise Proverbs

And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping animals, and of fishes.

Verse ConceptsCedarHyssopPlantsRelation Of Animals To ManBeauty Of NatureFishPets

And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to 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

Thou knowest how that David my father could not build a house to the name of the LORD his God, for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Abilities OfFootstoolsFeetPeople's Inability To Serve GodSolomon's TemplePeople OvercomingReady For WarA Place For God's NameAll Enemies Under God's Feet

But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftRest, PhysicalTime Of PeaceRestEnemy Attacks

Now therefore command thou, that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and to thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that is skilled in hewing timber like the Sidonians.

Verse ConceptsNegotiationServants, Working Conditions OfSkillWagesCommerceFelling TreesCedar Wood

And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, who hath given to 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 heard that for which you sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.

Verse ConceptsCommerceCedar Wood

My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats to the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

Verse ConceptsRafts

That's how Hiram came to provide Solomon as much cedar and cypress timber as he needed.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalTreesBarteringCedar Wood

And, Yahweh, gave wisdom unto Solomon, as he promised him, - and it came to pass that there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and, they two, solemnised a covenant.

Verse ConceptsCovenant RelationshipsAgreements, LegalCovenant breakersAliancesWisdom, Human NatureAllegiancesTime Of Peace

And King Solomon raised a labour-band, out of all Israel, - and it came to pass that, the labour-band, was thirty thousand men.

Verse ConceptsThirty Thousand And UpForced Labour

which he sent to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by course, so that they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was over the tribute.

Verse ConceptsTens Of ThousandsOne MonthTwo To Four MonthsForced Labour

And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains;

Verse ConceptsStonesFifty To Ninety Thousand

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

Verse ConceptsOverseersThree Thousand And Up

The king specified that large, expensive stones be quarried so the foundation of the Temple could be laid with cut stones.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsBuildingHousesFoundations Of Buildings

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

Verse ConceptsBeginningKingsMonthProperty, HousesSolomon, Life OfTypes Of ChristCalendarsMonth 2100 Years And MoreStarting To BuildThe First Temple

Now the house that King Solomon built for Yahweh [was] sixty cubits [in] its length and twenty cubits [in] its width and thirty cubits [in] its height.

Verse ConceptsBreadthBuildingHeightDimensions Of Buildingsfreemasonry

And the porch that was before the body of the temple was twenty cubits long after the measure of the breadth of the house, and ten broad, even at the very end of the house.

Verse ConceptsPorchesDimensions Of Chambers

He then built a chambered structure along the temple wall, encircling the walls of the temple, that is, the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.

Verse Conceptsstructure

The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Chambers

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

Verse ConceptsBuildingIronMasonsToolsHammersThe First Templeconstruction

"[Regarding] this temple that you are building: if you walk in my ordinances and if you do my judgments and you keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my promise with you which I made to David your father.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters.

Verse ConceptsMost Holy PlaceDimensions Of ChambersCedar Wood

The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Chambers

Cedar carvings in the form of gourds and blooming flowers covered the entire interior of the Temple so that no stone could be seen.

Verse ConceptsFlowersCarvings Of FlowersCedarArtCarvingCedar Wood

He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there.

Verse ConceptsMost Holy PlaceSanctuaryThe Ark In The Temple

The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.

Verse ConceptsMost Holy PlaceOverlaid With Gold

Each wing of one cherub was five cubits long, and each wing of the other cherub was five cubits long, so that the distance from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing was ten cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And the other Cherub was ten cubits high also: so that both the Cherubs were of one measure and one size.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSame Sizes

He set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

Verse ConceptsWallsAngel's Wings

For the entrance of the Holy of Holies he made two [folding] doors of olive wood, the lintel (header above the door) and five-sided doorposts (frames).

along with two doors of cypress wood, one door of which had two leaves that turned on hinges, as did the other door, which also had two leaves that turned on hinges.

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

In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, that is, the eighth month, the house was finished [according] to all his specifications and [according] to all his plans. He had built it in seven years.

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

It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.

Verse ConceptsFifteenForties

And he made a porch of pillars fifty cubits long and thirty cubits broad: and yet a porch before that with pillars, and a thick pillar before that.

Verse ConceptsHousesHallsDimensions Of Buildings

Then he made a porch to sit and judge in, sealed with Cedar throughout all the pavements. And his own house where he kept residence, in another court without that porch, was of the same work.

Verse ConceptsCedarJudgment SeatThroneHallsOverlaid With WoodPeople Involved In JudgementCedar Wood

And then Solomon made a house for Pharaoh's daughter which he had taken to wife, like unto that porch.

And all these things were of rich stones hewed after a measure and sawed with saws within and without, even from the foundation unto that whereon the beams were laid, and on the outside thereto, toward the great court.

Verse ConceptsToolsCarpentry ToolsSawsstructure

Nets of net-work, wreaths of chain-work are for the chapiters that are on the top of the pillars, seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the second chapiter.

Verse ConceptsChainsNetsSeven Things

So he made the pillars; and there were two rows around on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital.

Verse ConceptsPomegranates

The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Pillars

and the chapiters on the two pillars also above, over-against the protuberance that is beside the net; and the pomegranates are two hundred, in rows round about on the second chapiter.

Verse ConceptsPomegranatesThe Number Two Hundred

That's how he designed the pillars at the portico of the sanctuary. When he set up the right pillar, he named it Jachin. When he set up the left pillar, he named it Boaz.

Verse ConceptsPillarsPillars For Solomon's TempleRight SidesLeft Hand SidePeople Naming Things

It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold about 12,000 gallons.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearBreadthEdge Of Other Things

And the works of the bottoms was on this manner that the sides were as it were flat boards between the ledges.

Verse ConceptsDesign

and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

Verse ConceptsLionsCherubim Depicted

Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long. On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames.

Verse ConceptsengravingdepthArtSquaresDimensions Of Temple Furniture

The wheels’ design was similar to that of chariot wheels: their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.

Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in the house of Yahweh:

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

the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;

Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's TempleTwo Parts Of ConstructionsTop Of Things

and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredPomegranatesFour And Five Hundred

the single bronze sea and the twelve oxen that stood under the sea,

Verse ConceptsTwelve Animals

and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling basins. All the utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon at the Lord’s temple were made of burnished bronze.

Verse ConceptsHoly VesselsShovelsSacred VesselsProvision Of Temple UtensilsWeedpot

And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, for the exceeding abundance of brass that was in them.

Verse ConceptsBrassAmassing Bronze

Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show bread was, of gold;

Verse ConceptsTablesGold Items For The Tabernacl

the pure gold ceremonial bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, ladles, and firepans; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the most holy place) and for the doors of the temple sanctuary.

Verse ConceptsSpoonsBowlsCensersGold Items For The TabernaclProvision Of Temple Utensils

Thus all the work that king Solomon worked in the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsDedication In OtSilverStoringMan's Work FinishedDedication

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersJerusalem, History OfRankAssembling LeadersThe Ark In The TempleThe Elders Gathered

All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the festival in the month of Ethnaim, that is, the seventh month.

Verse ConceptsMonthNew Year, TheAutumnMonth 7

They brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

Verse ConceptsTent Of MeetingHoly VesselsSacred VesselsPriests In ActionThe Tabernaclereuniting

King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

Verse ConceptsSheepUncountableMany CreaturesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

For the cherubim were spreading their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim covered the ark and its poles from above.

Verse ConceptsThe Ark In The TempleCherubim

The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day.

Verse ConceptsLong ThingsPlaces To This Day

There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. It was there that the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ContentsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionStonesTabletsEmpty ThingsStone ItemsTwo Stone TabletsCovenant Made At SinaiArk Of The Covenant

It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsFilling The Sanctuary

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsecstasyTheophanyPeople's Inability To Serve GodCloud of glory

Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Verse ConceptsGod's Dwelling

Now I have been constructing a magnificent Temple dedicated to you that will serve as a place for you to inhabit forever."

Verse ConceptsBuildingGod's Dwelling

and he said - Blessed, be Yahweh, God of Israel, who spake with his mouth, unto David my father, - that which with his hand he hath fulfilled, saying: -

Verse ConceptsMouthsBlessed Be God!fulfillmentperformance

'Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.'

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtCovenant, God's with DavidGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptA Place For God's NameGod's Election Of David

And so it came to pass, that it was near the heart of David my father, - to build a house for the Name of Yahweh, God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsA Place For God's Name

But Yahweh said to David my father, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.

Verse ConceptsMan's PurposesA Place For God's Name

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.

Verse ConceptsSolomon's TempleA Place For God's Name

Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsConfidence, In God's WordThroneA Place For God's Name

I have provided a place there for the ark,
where the Lord’s covenant is
that He made with our ancestors
when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsThe Ark In The TempleGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptTerms Of The Covenant At Sinai

And he said, Jehovah, God of Israel! there is no God like thee, in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart;

Verse ConceptsGod, Uniqueness OfGod's WaysLoyaltyMonotheismNo One Is Like GodGod Keeps Covenant

who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

Verse ConceptsMouths

Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.'

Verse ConceptsThroneSaul And David

"Now therefore, God of Israel, may your promise that you made to your servant David my father be fulfilled"

You must regard the prayer of your servant and his plea! O Yahweh my God, listen to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant [is] praying before you this day,

Verse ConceptsMercifulnessHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!God Answering Prayersservanthoodsupplication

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