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And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you did not make request for money, property, or honour, or for the destruction of your haters, or for long life; but you have made request for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you ma

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

So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.

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

And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, which he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

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

And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number.

וַיִּתֵּ֨ן (וַ) va “and”

A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

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

Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

וַיִּסְפֹּ֨ר (וַ) va “and”

And Solomon sent to Huram, king of Tyre, saying, As you did for my father David, sending him cedar-trees for the building of his house,

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

Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them.

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

And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

וַיֹּאמֶר֮ (וַ) va “and”

Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.

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

Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

וַיַּ֨עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

וַיָּ֣חֶל (וַ) va “and”

The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

וַ֠יָּחֶל (וַ֠) Va “and”

And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

וַיְצַפֵּ֥הוּ (וַ) va “and”

And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

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

And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

וַיְצַ֧ף (וַ) va “and”

All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.

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

And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

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

And in the most holy place he made images of two winged beings, covering them with gold.

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

And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.

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

And in front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high, with crowns on the tops of them, five cubits high.

וַיַּ֜עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

And he made chains, like neck ornaments, and put them on the tops of the pillars, and a hundred apples on the chains.

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

He put up the pillars in front of the Temple, one on the right side and one on the left, naming the one on the right Jachin and that on the left Boaz.

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

Then he made a brass altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙ (וַ) va “and”