be after thee.

So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon unto Jerusalem from the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.

And Solomon gathered him chariots and horsemen, and brought him a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he left them in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

And the king made the silver and the gold of Jerusalem as much as the stones, and the cedars as the mulberry trees of the valley.

And they brought Solomon horses out of Egypt, and all manner of merchandise. And the king’s merchants bought the same merchandise.

And they brought them out of Egypt, a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for an hundred and fifty. So they brought to all the kings of the Hittites, and to the kings of Syria.
(2 Chronicles)
Chapter 2
Necessary preparation for the construction of the temple.

And Solomon purposed to build an house to the name of the LORD, and a house of his kingdom.

And he numbered seventy thousand men to the burden, and eighty thousand carpenters in the mount, and three thousand and six hundred officers over them.

And Solomon sent unto Huram king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst unto David my father, and didst send him cedars, to build him an house to dwell in;

Behold, I will build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, and it shall be sanctified unto him, to burn incense before him, and to burn shewbread continually, and burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the feasts of the LORD
our God for Israel for ever.

And the house that I will build shall be great: for our God is greater than all gods.

But who can build him an house? For heaven and all the heavens cannot provide for him: who then shall I be that buildeth him an house? But that they should burn incense before him.

Send me therefore a wise man to work with gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and scarlet, and scarlet, and yellow silk, and to dig with the wise men that are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father sent.

And send me cedar, and fir, and ebony, from Lebanon: for I know that thy servants know how to hew wood in Lebanon. And, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 9. That they prepare me much wood: for the house which I shall build shall be great and excellent.

And, behold, I will give unto the carpenters, thy servants that hew the timber, twenty thousand measures of thrust wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

Then Huram king of Tyre spake by writing, and sent unto Solomon, Because the LORD
loveth his people, he hath made thee king over them.

And Huram said again, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which made heaven and earth, that he hath given unto David the king a wise son, and a prudent son, and a son of understanding, to build the house of the LORD, and the house of his kingdom.

Now therefore I send a wise man that hath understanding, Huram-Abif, 14. Who is the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a tyrant: who knoweth how to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in stone, and in wood, and in scarlet, and in yellow silk, and in linen, and in scarlet, and in digging all manner of work, and in making all manner of work that shall be set before him, with thy wise men, and with the wise men of my lord king David thy father.

Now therefore send my lord wheat, and barley, and oil, and wine, unto his servants, as he
hath spoken,

And we will hew the timber in Lebanon, as much as is needful; and we will bring it in rafts in the sea unto Japho: thence shalt thou bring it up to Jerusalem.

And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel according to the number which David his father numbered: and there were found an hundred and fifty thousand, three thousand and six hundred.

And he made of them seventy thousand porters, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mount, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to keep the people in the service.
(2 Chronicles)
Chapter 3
Of the building of the temple.

And Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, in mount Moriah, which was pointed out to David his father, which David had prepared for a place in the place of Arnan the Jebusite.

And he began to build in the second month of the second day, in the fourth year of his reign.

And Solomon laid the foundation to build the house of God: the length of the first was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

And the length of the hall before the breadth of the house was twenty cubits, and the height thereof an hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

And the great house he sprinkled with fir wood, and overlaid it with the best gold, and made upon it palm trees and chains.

And he overlaid the house with precious stones for ornaments: and the gold was the gold of Parvaim.

And he overlaid the beams above, and the walls, and the doors, with gold, and carved cherubims upon the walls.

He made also the house of the most holy, the length of which was twenty cubits according to the breadth of the house, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with the best gold, about six hundred talents.

And he gave also for nails fifty shekels of gold by weight; and overlaid the halls with gold.

He made also in the house of the holy of holies two cherubims after the art of the sculptors, and overlaid them with gold.

And the length of the wing of the cherubims was twenty cubits: one wing was five cubits, and touched the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, and touched the wing of the other cherub.

And the wing of the other cherub was five cubits, and touched the wall of the house; and the other wing thereof was five cubits, and hung upon the wing of the other cherub, 13. And the wings of the cherubims were spread out twenty cubits: and they stood upon their feet, and their faces were turned toward the house.

He made also a curtain of yellow work, and scarlet, and scarlet, and linen; and made cherubims upon it.

And he made before the house two pillars thirty and five cubits long; and the top thereof five cubits.

And he made chains for the choir, and put them upon the top of the pillars; and he made an hundred pomegranates, and put them upon the chains.

And he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left: and he called the name of the pillar on the right hand Jachin, and the name of the pillar on the left Boaz.
(2 Chronicles)
Chapter 4
Of the things belonging to the temple.

He made also an altar of brass, twenty cubits long and broad, and ten cubits high.

And he made a sea of water ten cubits from the brim to the brim round about, and five cubits high; and a measure of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

And the images of oxen were round about him: and there were two bends of the sea round
about, ten cubits broad, cast on with them.

And it was so upon the twelve oxen, that three were turned toward the north, and three toward the west, and three toward the south, and three toward the east, and the sea was upon them: and all the hindmost of them was within.

The thickness thereof was an handbreadth, and the brim thereof was as the brim of a cup, and as a rose sprung up: and it held three thousand baths.

And he made ten caldrons, and set five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them the things of the burnt offering, that they should pour them in; and the sea for the priests to wash in.

He made also ten candlesticks of gold, as they should be, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

And he made ten tables, and put them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
And he made an hundred basins of gold.

He made also a court for the priests, and great bars, and doors in the bars; and overlaid the doors with brass.

And set the sea on the right corner toward the east southward.

And Huram made pots, and shovels, and basins. So Huram finished the work he did for King Solomon in the house of God,

Namely, the two pillars with the bellies and knops on the top of both pillars, and both coiled hoops to cover both bellies of the knops on the top of the pillars, 13. And the four hundred pomegranates upon the two coiled hoops; two bows of pomegranates upon each hoop, to cover both the bellies of the knobs that were upon the top of the pillars.

And he made the chairs, and the cauldrons upon the chairs.

And a sea, and twelve oxen under it;

And the pots, and the shovels, and the censers, and all the vessels thereof, did Huram-abif make unto king Solomon for the house of the LORD, of