H9001–/וַ–v

God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who hate you, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king:

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר־ (וַ) va “and”וַתִּֽשְׁאַל־ (וַ) va. “and”

So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.

וַיָּבֹ֨א (וַ) va “and”וַיִּמְלֹ֖ךְ (וַ) va “and”

Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

וַיֶּאֱסֹ֣ף (וַ) va “and”וַֽיְהִי־ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּנִּיחֵם֙ (וַ) va “and”

The king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

וַיִּתֵּ֨ן (וַ) va “and”

They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

וַֽ֠יַּעֲלוּ (וַֽ֠) Va “and”וַיּוֹצִ֨יאוּ (וַ) va “and”

Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

וַיִּסְפֹּ֨ר (וַ) va “and”

Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, [supplied: even so deal with me].

וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח (וַ) va “and”וַתִּֽשְׁלַֽח־ (וַ) va. “and”

Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁלַ֖ח (וַ) va “and”

Huram said moreover, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

וַיֹּאמֶר֮ (וַ) va “and”

Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.

וַיִּסְפֹּ֣ר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּמָּצְא֗וּ (וַ) va “and”

He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.

וַיַּ֨עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [supplied: Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

וַיָּ֣חֶל (וַ) va “and”

He began to build in the second [supplied: day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

וַ֠יָּחֶל (וַ֠) Va “and”

The porch that was before [supplied: the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

וַיְצַפֵּ֥הוּ (וַ) va “and”

The greater house he made a ceiling with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and worked thereon palm trees and chains.

וַיְחַפֵּ֖הוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֧עַל (וַ) va “and”

He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

וַיְצַ֧ף (וַ) va “and”

He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls of it, and the doors of it, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.

וַיְחַ֨ף (וַ) va “and”וּפִתַּ֥ח (וּ) u. “and”

He made the most holy house: the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיְחַפֵּ֙הוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

In the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.

וַיַּ֜עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”וַיְצַפּ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim thereon.

וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֥עַל (וַ) va “and”

Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

וַיַּ֜עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

He made chains in the oracle, and put [supplied: them] on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

וַיַּ֤עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתֵּ֖ן (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֤עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתֵּ֖ן (וַ) va “and”

He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

וַיָּ֤קֶם (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְרָ֤א (וַ) va “and”

Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the height of it.

וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙ (וַ) va “and”