H9002–/וְ–v

King Solomon made an offering of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people kept the feast of the opening of the house of God.

וּשְׁנַ֙יִם֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְצֹ֕אן (וְ) ve. “and”וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the priests were in their places, and the Levites with their instruments of music for the Lord's song, which David the king had made for the praise of the Lord whose mercy is unchanging for ever, when David gave praise by their hand; and the priests

וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֞ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַלְוִיִּ֞ם (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַכֹּהֲנִים֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Solomon made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering the burned offerings there, and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar which Solomon had made for all the burned offerings

וְאֵ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

So Solomon kept the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, for the people had come together from the way into Hamath and from as far as the river of Egypt.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.

וְהֶחָ֖ג (וְ) ve. “and”

And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

וּבְי֨וֹם (וּ) u. “and”וּשְׁלֹשָׁה֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְט֣וֹבֵי (וְ) ve. “and”וְלִשְׁלֹמֹ֔ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (וּ) u. “and”

So Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house; and everything which it was in his mind to make in the house of the Lord and for himself had been well done.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֨ת (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְבֵית֖וֹ (וּ) u. “and”

If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֵן־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.

וְיִכָּנְע֨וּ (וְ) ve. “so”וְיִֽתְפַּֽלְלוּ֙ (וְ) ve. “so”וִֽיבַקְשׁ֣וּ (וִֽ) vi. “and”וְיָשֻׁ֖בוּ (וְ) ve. “so”וַאֲנִי֙ (וַ) va. “and”וְאֶסְלַח֙ (וְ) ve. “so”וְאֶרְפָּ֖א (וְ) ve. “so”

Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

וְאָזְנַ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

וְעַתָּ֗ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִקְדַּ֙שְׁתִּי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלִבִּ֛י (וְ) ve. “and”

And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions:

וְאַתָּ֞ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְלַעֲשׂ֕וֹת (וְ) ve. “and”וְחֻקַּ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖י (וּ) u. “and”

But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִצְוֹתַ֔י (וּ) u. “and”

Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶתְּנֶ֛נּוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלִשְׁנִינָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

וְהַבַּ֤יִת (וְ) ve. “and”וְלַבַּ֥יִת (וְ) ve. “and”

Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.

וְהֶעָרִ֗ים (וְ) ve. “and”

And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;

וְאֵת֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְרִֽיחַ׃ (וּ) u. “and”

And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

וְאֶֽת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֨ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵת֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֣ת׀ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבַלְּבָנ֔וֹן (וּ) u. “and”וּבְכֹ֖ל (וּ) u. “and”

As for all the rest of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel:

וְהָאֱמֹרִ֤י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַפְּרִזִּי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַחִוִּ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַיְבוּסִ֔י (וְ) ve. “and”

But Solomon did not make use of the children of Israel as servants for his work; they were men of war, his chiefs and his captains, and captains of his war-carriages and his horsemen.

וּמִן־ (וּ) u. “and”וְשָׂרֵ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׂרֵ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”וּפָרָשָֽׁיו׃ (וּ) u. “and”

Now these were the chief men in authority whom King Solomon had: two hundred and fifty of them, in authority over the people.

וְאֵ֨לֶּה (וְ) ve. “and”וּמָאתָ֑יִם (וּ) u. “and”

Then Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her; for he said, I will not have my wife living in the house of David, king of Israel, because those places where the ark of the Lord has come are hol

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Offering every day what had been ordered by Moses, on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and at the regular feasts three times a year, that is at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents.

וּבִדְבַר־ (וּ) u. “and”וְלֶ֣חֳדָשִׁ֔ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְלַמּ֣וֹעֲד֔וֹת (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְחַ֥ג (וּ) u. “and”וּבְחַ֥ג (וּ) u. “and”