20David said to the whole assemblage, “Now bless the LORD your God.” All the assemblage blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed their heads low to the LORD and the king. 21They offered sacrifices to the LORD and made burnt offerings to the LORD on the morrow of that day: 1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, 1,000 lambs, with their libations; [they made] sacrifices in great number for all Israel, 22and they ate and drank in the presence of the LORD on that day with great joy. They again proclaimed Solomon son of David king, and they anointed him as ruler before the LORD, and Zadok as high priest. 23Solomon successfully took over the throne of the LORD as king instead of his father David, and all went well with him. All Israel accepted him; 24all the officials and the warriors, and the sons of King David as well, gave their hand in support of King Solomon. 25The LORD made Solomon exceedingly great in the eyes of all Israel, and endowed him with a regal majesty that no king of Israel before him ever had.
26Thus David son of Jesse reigned over all Israel; 27the length of his reign over Israel was forty years: he reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 28He died at a ripe old age, having enjoyed long life, riches and honor, and his son Solomon reigned in his stead. 29The acts of King David, early and late, are recorded in the history of Samuel the seer, the history of Nathan the prophet, and the history of Gad the seer, 30together with all the mighty deeds of his kingship and the events that befell him and Israel and all the kingdoms of the earth.
a With vv. 5–23, cf. Gen. 10.1–30.
b With vv. 28–33, cf. Gen. 25.1–16.
c With vv. 43–50, cf. Gen. 36.31–43.
a Heb. ‘oseb, connected with “Jabez.”
b Lit. “the valley of the craftsmen.”
c Apparently Bithiah; cf. v. 18.
a-a Some ancient vv. read “Joel, and the second”; cf. 1 Sam. 8.2.
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b With vv. 24–51, cf. Josh. 21.3–42.
c Josh. 21.13, “city.”
a In some editions, chap. 6 begins here.
a Heb. bera‘ah.
a With vv. 2–17, cf. Neh. 11.3–19.
a With vv. 1–12, cf. 1 Sam. 31.1–13.
b-b Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
c I.e., Israel.
a With vv. 1–9, cf. 2 Sam. 5.1–10, and with vv. 11–41. cf. 2 Sam. 23.8–39.
b Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
a Or, “the troop,” reading Heb. gedud with several mss.
b I.e., the band of Amalekite raiders; cf. I Sam. 30.8, 15.
a Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
b With vv. 6–14, cf. 2 Sam. 6.2–11.
c-c Heb. paras … peres.
a With vv. 1–16, cf. 2 Sam. 5.11–25.
b With the list in vv. 4–7, cf. also 1 Chron. 3.5–8.
c-c Heb. paras … peres.
d Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
a-a Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
b Vv. 25–29 are found also in 2 Sam. 6.12–16.
a With vv. 1–3, cf. 2 Sam. 6.17–19.
b-b Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
c With vv. 8–22, cf. Ps. 105.1–15.
d I.e., the Ark; cf. Pss. 78.61; 132.8.
e With vv. 23–33, cf. Ps. 96.1–13.
f-f Cf. Ps. 106.47–48.
a With this chapter, cf. 2 Sam. 7.
b I.e., a dynasty; play on “house” (i.e., Temple) in v. 4.
c-c Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
a With this chapter, cf. 2 Sam. 8.
b Or “quivers.”
a With this chapter, cf. 2 Sam. 10.
a With vv. 1–3, cf. 2 Sam. 11.1; 12.30–31.
b-b Meaning of Heb. uncertain. 2 Sam. 12.31 has “set them to work.”
c Heb. megeroth; cf. 2 Sam. 12.31 magzeroth, “axes.”
a With vv. 1–26, cf. 2 Sam. 24.
a Heb. Shelomoh.
b Heb. shalom.
c-c With Targum; or “in my poverty.”
a-a Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
a Lit. “fortress.”
Chronicles II
1 aSolomon son of David took firm hold of his kingdom, for the LORD his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. 2Solomon summoned all Israel—the officers of thousands and of hundreds, and the judges, and all the chiefs of all Israel, the heads of the clans. 3Then Solomon, and all the assemblage with him, went to the shrine at Gibeon, for the Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness, was there. (4But the Ark of God David had brought up from Kiriath-jearim to the place which David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.) 5The bronze altar, which Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur had made, was also there before the Tabernacle of the LORD, and Solomon and the assemblage resorted to it. 6There Solomon ascended the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and on it sacrificed a thousand burnt offerings.
7That night, the LORD appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask, what shall I grant you?” 8Solomon said to God, “You dealt most graciously with my father David, and now You have made me king in his stead. 9Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled; for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth. 10Grant me then the wisdom and the knowledge b-to lead this people,-b for who can govern Your great people?” 11God said to Solomon, “Because you want this, and have not asked for wealth, property, and glory, nor have you asked for the life of your enemy, or long life for yourself, but you have asked for the wisdom and the knowledge to be able to govern My people over whom I have made you king, 12wisdom and knowledge are granted to you, and I grant you also wealth, property, and glory, the like of which no king before you has had, nor shall any after you have.” 13From the shrine at Gibeon, from the Tent of Meeting, Solomon went to Jerusalem and reigned over Israel.
14Solomon assembled chariots and horsemen; he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses that he stationed in the chariot towns and with the king in Jerusalem. 15The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as plentiful as the sycamores in the Shephelah. 16Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Que; the king’s traders would buy them from Que at the market price. 17A chariot imported from Egypt cost 600 shekels of silver, and a horse 150. These in turn were exported by themc to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Arameans.
18Then Solomon resolved to build a House for the name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
2 aSolomon mustered 70,000 basket carriers and 80,000 quarriers in the hills, with 3,600 men supervising them. 2Solomon sent this message to King Huram of Tyre, “In view of what you did for my father David in sending him cedars to build a palace for his residence—3see, I intend to build a House for the name of the LORD my God; I will dedicate it to Him for making incense offering of sweet spices in His honor, for the regular rows of bread, and for the morning and evening burnt offerings on sabbaths, new moons, and festivals, as is Israel’s eternal duty. 4The House that I intend to build will be great, inasmuch as our God is greater than all gods. 5Who indeed is capable of building a House for Him! Even the heavens to their uttermost reaches cannot contain Him, and who am I that I should build Him a House—except as a place for making burnt offerings to Him? 6Now send me a craftsman to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue yarn, and who knows how to engrave, alongside the craftsmen I have here in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David provided. 7Send me cedars, cypress, and algum wood from the Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled at cutting the trees of Lebanon. My servants will work with yours 8to provide me with a great stock of timber; for the House that I intend to build will be singularly great. 9I have allocated for your servants, the wood-cutters who fell the trees, 20,000 kor of crushed wheat and 20,000 kor of barley, 20,000 bath of wine and 20,000 bath of oil.”
10Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon this written message in reply, “Because the LORD loved His people, He made you king over them.”
11Huram continued, “Blessed is
