The pillars, ornaments, and Before CHRIST 1005. John 10. 23. 4 2 Chron. 4. + Heb. the son of a widow woman. 2 Chron. 4. 16. Exod. 31. 3. & 36. 1. 1 KINGS, VII. h 15 For he † cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about. 16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: 17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter. 18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter. 19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits. 20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter. i 21 And he set up the pillars in 'the porch of the temple and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin and he set up the_left pillar, and called the name thereof || Boaz. 22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work so was the work of the pillars finished. utensils for the temple. ing toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. 26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies it contained two thousand baths. 27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it. 28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges: 29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims and upon the ledges.there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work. 30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition. 31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round. Before CHRIST 1005. P See 2 Chron. 4. 5. 32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height↑ Heb. in the of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. 33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten. 34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself. 35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same. 36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the † proportion of every one, and additions round about. 37 After this manner he made the ten bases all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size. 38¶Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every base. + Heb. naked ness. 92 Chron.4.6. Hiram's work for the temple. Before CHRIST 1005. + Heb. shoulder. + Heb. Hirom: ver. 17, 18. + Heb. upon the face of the pillars. Exod. 27. 3. 2 Chron. 4. 16. + Heb. made bright, or, scoured. + 2 Chron. 4. 17. + Heb. in the thickness of the ground. " Gen. 33. 17. * Josh. 3. 16. 1 KINGS, VIII. laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver. 39 And he put five bases on the right † side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south. 40 And + Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD: 41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two 'networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; 42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were + upon the pillars; 43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; 44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; 8 45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of † bright brass. 46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and * Zarthan. u X 47 And Solomon left all the vessels unHeb. for the weighed, t because they were exceeding many neither was the weight of the brass +Heb. search-t found out. exceeding multitude. ed. 1 Chron. 22. 14. 48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, Exod. 37.10, whereupon the shewbread was, Exod. 37.25, &c. &c. a Exod. 25.30. Lev.24.5-8. + Heb. ash pans. +Heb. holy things of David. b 2 Sam. 8. 11. 2 Chron.5.1. a 49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold, 50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the † censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple. 51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things b which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD. The feast of the dedication. CHAPTER VIII. 62 1 The feast of the dedication of the temple. 12, 54 Solomon's blessing. 22 Solomon's prayer. His sacrifice of peace offerings. Before CHRIST 1005. * 2 Chron.5.2, &c. HEN Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the † chief of the fathers of the +Heb.princes. children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. b с b 2 Sam. 6. 17. e 2 Sam. 5. 7, 9. & 6. 12,16. 2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the Lev. 23. 34. seventh month. d e 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. 5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. g i 2 Chron.7.8. 1004. Numb. 4.15. Deut. 31.9. Josh. 3. 3,6. 1 Chron. 15. 14, 15. f ch. 3. 4. 2 Chron.1.3. 2 Sam. 6. 13. 2 Sam. 6. 17. Exod. 26. 33, 34. 6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings ch. 6. 27. of the cherubims. k 7 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. 8 And they drew out the staves, that the t ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day. m ch. 6. 19. 9 There was nothing in the ark "save the two tables of stone, which Moses 'put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, Or, where. when they came out of the land of Egypt. • Exod. 40.20. P ver. 21. 35. 10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud 'filled the house of the LORD, Exod. 40.34, 11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD. 2 Chron. 5. 13,14. & 7. 2. 12¶Then spake Solomon, The LORD 2 Chron.6.1, said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. &c. Lev. 16. 2. Ps. 18. 11. & 97. 2. 2 Sam. 7. 13. 13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, "a settled place for thee to "Ps. 132, 14. abide in for ever. Solomon's prayer at the Before CHRIST 1004. 1 KINGS, VIII. 14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: * 2 Sam. 6. 18. (and all the congregation of Israel stood ;) 15 And he said, " Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, Luke 1. 68. * 2 Sam. 7. 5, 25. 2 Sam. 7. 6. 2 Chron.6.5, &c. b ver. 29. Deut. 12.11. 1 Sam. 16. 1. 2 Sam. 7. 8. 1 Chron. 28. 4. 42 Sam. 7. 2. 1 Chron. 17. 1. * 2 Chron. 6. 8,9. ! 2 Sam. 7. 5, 12, 13. ch. 5. 3, 5. 1 Chron. 28. 5, 6, b ver. 9. 12 Chron. 6. 12, &c. Exod. 9. 33. Exod. 15.11. 2 Sam. 7. 22. "Deut. 7. 9. Neh. 1. 5. Dan. 9. 4. • Gen. 17. 1. ch. 3. 6. 2 Kings 20.3. P 2 Sam. 7. 12, 16. ch. 2. 4. + Heb. There shall not be cut off unto thee a man from my sight. + Heb. only if. 92 Sam. 7. 25. 2 Chron.2.6. Isai. 66. 1. Jer. 23. 24. Acts 7.49. & 17. 24. 2 Cor. 12. 2. b 16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel. 17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. dedication of the temple. of heavens cannot contain thee; how 28 Yet have thou respect unto the 29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make "|| toward this place. 33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house : 34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. с 35¶ When heaven is shut up, and Lev. 26. 19, there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: 36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance. d Ps. 25. 4. & 27. 11. & 94. 12. & 143. 8. 1 Sam. 12.23. 24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day. 25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, 37¶If there be in the land famine,Lev. 26. 16, P+ There shall not fail thee a man in my if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, sight to sit on the throne of Israel; † so locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their that thy children take heed to their way, enemy besiege them in the land of their that they walk before me as thou hast cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever || Or, juriswalked before me. sickness there be; Solomon's prayer at the CHRIST 1004. 1 KINGS, VIII. Before 39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even 1 Sam. 16.7. thou only, thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men ;) 1 Chron.28.9. Ps. 11. 4. Jer. 17. 10. Acts 1. 24. h Ps. 130. 4. * Deut. 3. 24. h g 40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. 41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake; 42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; i 43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the 1 Sam.17.46. stranger calleth to thee for: that all ple of the earth may know thy name, to 'fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that t this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name. 2 Kings 19. 1 Ps. 102. 15. + Heb. thy name is called upon this house. + Heb. the way of the city. || Or, right. TM 2 Chron. 6. 36. 44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD † toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name: 45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 46 If they sin against thee, (TM for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away Lev. 26. 34, captives "unto the land of the enemy, far 1 John 1. 8, 10. t dedication of the temple. against thee, and 'give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them: 51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, "from the midst of the furnace of iron: 52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee. 53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD. 54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. Before CHRIST 1004. ⚫ Ezra 7. 6. Ps. 106. 46. * Deut. 9. 29. Neh. 1. 10. " Deut. 4. 20. Jer. 11. 4. * Exod. 19. 5. Deut. 9. 26, 29. & 14. 2. 57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: 58 That he b incline our hearts may unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers. 59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel † at all times, as the matter shall require: с d Deut. 12. 10. Josh. 21. 45. & 23. 14. + Heb. fallen. 60 That all the people of the earth Josh. 4. 24. may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else. 61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. 46. 2 Kings 19. 19. d Deut. 4. 35, 39. ech. 11. 4. & 15, 3, 14. 2 Kings 20.3. &c. 62 And the king, and all Israel 2 Chron. 7.4, with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. 63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the God's covenant with Solomon. Before CHRIST 1004. 82 Chron. 7.7. 2 Chron. 4.1. i ver. 2. Lev. 23. 34. g 1 KINGS, IX. LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. 64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he of fered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. h i 65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great Numb. 34.8. congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seseven days and seven days, even fourteen days. Josh. 13. 5. 2 Kings 14. 1 Gen. 15. 18. Numb. 34.5. 2 Chron.7.8. 2 Chron. 7. 9, 10. n 1 m 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away and they blessed the king, Or, thanked and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people. 1 m Solomon buildeth divers cities. 6 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: 7 " Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed" for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: P 8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? q 9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil. 10 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house, 11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they † pleased him not. see pleased not. 3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; " and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. go i f 4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: k 5 Then I will establish the throne of 2 Sam. 7. 12, thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel. & 6. 12. 1 Chron. 22. 10. Ps. 132. 12. 13 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of || Cabul Josh. 19. 27. unto this day. t 14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold. 15 And this is the reason of " the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and a Gezer. а Χ y 16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife. || That is, Displeasing, or, Dirty. "ch. 5. 13. * ver. 24. 2 Sam. 5. 9. cir. 992. Josh. 19. 36. Josh. 17.11. a Josh. 16 10. Judg. 1. 29. Josh. 16. 10. cir. 1014. Josh. 16. 3. & 21. 22. 2 Chron.8.5. d 18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the Josh. 19. 44. wilderness, in the land, 2 Chron.8.4, 6, &c. + Heb. the desire of Solo. mon which 19 And all the cities of store that So-ch. 4. 26. lomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and † that Y y he desired. |