The dimensions and

B. C.

dence and understanding, that 1015.

might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, 14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

91 K1. 7.

13, 14.

B. C.

1012.

† Heb. covered.

rver. 10.51 Ki. 6. $1Ki.5.8, 23, &c.

9.

15 Now therefore the wheat,and the barley, the oil, and the wine which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants; 16And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, tas much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea tot Jop-cording to all thy pa; and thou shalt carry it up need. to Jerusalem. ↑ Heb. 17 And Solomon numbered Japho, all the strangers that were in Jos. 19. the land of Israel, after the num- 46. Ac. 9. bering wherewith "David his 36. father had numbered them; and tAs ver. they were found an hundred and 2. 1 Ki. 5. fifty thousand and three thou-13, 15, 16. sand and six hundred. &9,20,21. 18 And he set threescore and ch.8. 7, 8. ten thousand of them to be bear-† Heb. ers of burdens, and fourscore the men thousand to be hewers in the the mountain, and three thousand strangand six hundred overseers to set the people a-work.

CHAPTER III.

ers.

u1Ch. 22.

2.

ver. 2.

Or, toward

house. h Ex. 26.

The place, and time of building the As it is the temple, 1. 3 The measure and ornaments of the house. 10 The cherubims. 14 The vail and pillars.

THEN Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the

Jebusite.

1012.

Ki.6.

&c. Ge. 22. 2, 14.

1,

Or.. which was seen

of Da2 And he began to build in the vid his second day of the second month, father. long. in the fourth year of his reign. 1Ch. 21. k1 Ki. 7. 3 Now these are the thingsd 18.&22 1.20. wherein Solomon was finstruct-Or, 11KI.7.21. ed for the building of the house Arau- That is, of God. The length by cubits nah,2 Sa. he shall after the first measure was three- 24. 18. score cubits, and the breadth di Ki.6.2. lish. twenty cubits, † Heb. That is, found-in it is ed. strength.

4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and

1Ki.6. 3.

estab

ornaments of the temple. ceiled with fir-tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm-trees and chains. 6 And he tgarnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

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

9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims || of image-work, and overlaid them with gold.

11 T And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.

13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.

14 T And he made the bvail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and fwrought cherubims thereon.

15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits thigh, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the kan hundred pomegranates, and heads of the pillars: and made put them on the chains.

17 And he reared 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. CHAPTER IV.

The altar of brass, L. 2 The molten sea upon twelve oxen, 6 The ten lavers, candlesticks, and tables. 9 The courts, and the instruments of brass. 19 The instruments of gold.

in with pure gold.

5 And the greater house he

17.

13, 16.

cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

place, even under the wings of B. C. the cherubims:

8 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims 'covered the ark, and the staves thereof above.

9 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.

1004.

4.

Solomon's prayer

all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

Cch 12.13.6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be di Ch.28. there; and dhave chosen David to be over my people Israel. 7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel;

10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. 11 T And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sancti-† Heb. fied, and did not then wait by found.

course:

125 Also the Levites which were 51 Ch.25. the singers, all of them of Asaph, 1. of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren; being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries

and harps, stood at the east end b1 Ch.15. of the altar, hand with them au 24 hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

8 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:

9 Notwithstanding, thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

10 The LORD therefore hath per formed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

11 And in it have I put the ark, fch. 5.10. fwherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

81Ki.8.22 12 T And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

tHeb.the length thereof,

Ps. 136. See 1Ch. 16. 34, 41.

&c.

14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: kfor the glory of the Ex. 40. LORD had filled the house of God.

CHAPTER VI.

Solomon, having blessed the people, blesseth God, 1. 12 Solomon's prayer in the consecration of the temple, upon the brazen scaffold.

THEN

35.ch.7.2.

h Ex. 15. 11. De. 4. 39. & 7.9.

HEN said Solomon, The Ki.8.12
LORD hath said that he &c.

would dwell in the bthick dark-bLe.16.2.

ness.

2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.

4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,

5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among

ilCh.22.9

k2Sa.7.12 16.1 Ki.2. 4 & 6. 12. ch. 7. 18. † Heb. There

shall not a man be cut off.

1 Ps. 132. 12.

13 (For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, of five cubits tlong, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven.)

14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:

15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying,

There shall not fail thee, a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.

18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the hea-mch. 2. 6. ven of heavens cannot contain Is. 66. 1. thee; how much less this house which I have built!

19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:

B. C. 1004.

Or,

20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said, that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place. 21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and place. of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling. pray. place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

22 If a man sin against his neighbour, tand an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house; 23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head: and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

24 And if thy people Israel

in this

† Heb.

† Heb. and he require an vath of him.

be put to the worse before the Or, be enemy, because they have sin- smitten. ned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;

25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

26 T When the "heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;

27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

I Or, toward.

P1Ki.17.1

28 If there be dearth in the ch. 20.9. land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them tin the cities of their land; whatsoever sore, or whatsoever sick ness there be:

+ Heb. in the land of their

29 Then what prayer, or what gates. supplication soever shall bemade

toward

this house.

consecration of the temple.

of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore, and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house;

30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou P1 Ch.28. only Pknowest the hearts of the children of men :)

9.

t Heb. all the days which † Heb. upon the face of the land. Jn.12.20

Ac. 8. 27.

31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, fso long as they live fin the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. 32 Moreover, concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched-out arm; if they come and pray in this house; 33 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Is+ Heb. rael, and may know that this thy house which I have built is callname ised by thy name.

called

upon this house,

Or, right. Pr. 20.9. Ec. 7. 20. Ja. 3. 2. 1 Jn. 1. 8. † Heb. they that take

them captives carry them

away. ↑ Heb. bring back to their heart.

Or, right.

34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shait send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their

cause.

36 If they sin against thee, (for there is 'no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver themover before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

37 Yet if they tbethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name;

39 Then hear thou from the heavens.even from thy dwellingplace, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee. 40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let