SOLOMON

Passages on this topic · 300

• Deuteronomy 17:15

  you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh your God chooses. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

• Deuteronomy 17:16

  Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”

• Deuteronomy 17:17

  He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

• 2 Samuel 7:12

  When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

• 2 Samuel 7:13

  He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

• 2 Samuel 7:14

  I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

• 2 Samuel 7:15

  but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

• 2 Samuel 7:16

  Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.”’”

• 2 Samuel 12:24

  David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;

• 2 Samuel 12:25

  and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.

• 1 Kings 1:11

  Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it?

• 1 Kings 1:12

  Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and your son Solomon’s life.

• 1 Kings 1:13

  Go in to king David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord, king, swear to your servant, saying, “Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?” Why then does Adonijah reign?’

• 1 Kings 1:14

  Behold, while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words.”

• 1 Kings 1:15

  Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.

• 1 Kings 1:16

  Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?”

• 1 Kings 1:17

  She said to him, “My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’

• 1 Kings 1:18

  Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it.

• 1 Kings 1:19

  He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Solomon your servant.

• 1 Kings 1:20

  You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

• 1 Kings 1:21

  Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”

• 1 Kings 1:22

  Behold, while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.

• 1 Kings 1:23

  They told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!” When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

• 1 Kings 1:24

  Nathan said, “My lord, king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?’

• 1 Kings 1:25

  For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live king Adonijah!’

• 1 Kings 1:26

  But he hasn’t called me, even me your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon.

• 1 Kings 1:27

  Was this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”

• 1 Kings 1:28

  Then king David answered, “Call Bathsheba in to me.” She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.

• 1 Kings 1:29

  The king swore, and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

• 1 Kings 1:30

  most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;’ I will most certainly do this today.”

• 1 Kings 1:31

  Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord king David live forever!”

• 1 Kings 1:32

  King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king.

• 1 Kings 1:33

  The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.

• 1 Kings 1:34

  Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’

• 1 Kings 1:35

  Then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.”

• 1 Kings 1:36

  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, “Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.

• 1 Kings 1:37

  As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.”

• 1 Kings 1:38

  So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.

• 1 Kings 1:39

  Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live king Solomon!”

• 1 Kings 1:40

  All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound.

• 1 Kings 1:41

  Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?”

• 1 Kings 1:42

  While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, “Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.”

• 1 Kings 1:43

  Jonathan answered Adonijah, “Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king.

• 1 Kings 1:44

  The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule.

• 1 Kings 1:45

  Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.

• 1 Kings 1:46

  Also, Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.

• 1 Kings 1:47

  Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the bed.

• 1 Kings 1:48

  Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’”

• 1 Kings 2:12

  Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.

• 1 Kings 2:35

  The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.

• 1 Kings 3:1

  Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

• 1 Kings 3:3

  Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

• 1 Kings 3:4

  The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

• 1 Kings 3:5

  In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”

• 1 Kings 3:6

  Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

• 1 Kings 3:7

  Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.

• 1 Kings 3:8

  Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.

• 1 Kings 3:9

  Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

• 1 Kings 3:10

  This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

• 1 Kings 3:11

  God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

• 1 Kings 3:12

  behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

• 1 Kings 3:13

  I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.

• 1 Kings 3:14

  If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

• 1 Kings 3:15

  Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

• 1 Kings 3:16

  Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

• 1 Kings 3:17

  The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

• 1 Kings 3:18

  The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

• 1 Kings 3:19

  This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.

• 1 Kings 3:20

  She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

• 1 Kings 3:21

  When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.”

• 1 Kings 3:22

  The other woman said, “No; but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No; but the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” Thus they spoke before the king.

• 1 Kings 3:23

  Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”

• 1 Kings 3:24

  The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.

• 1 Kings 3:25

  The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”

• 1 Kings 3:26

  Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

• 1 Kings 3:27

  Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”

• 1 Kings 3:28

  All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

• 1 Kings 4:1

  King Solomon was king over all Israel.

• 1 Kings 4:2

  These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

• 1 Kings 4:3

  Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

• 1 Kings 4:4

  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

• 1 Kings 4:5

  Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend;

• 1 Kings 4:6

  Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

• 1 Kings 4:7

  Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

• 1 Kings 4:8

  These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

• 1 Kings 4:9

  Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

• 1 Kings 4:10

  Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

• 1 Kings 4:11

  Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife);

• 1 Kings 4:12

  Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

• 1 Kings 4:13

  Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);

• 1 Kings 4:14

  Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

• 1 Kings 4:15

  Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

• 1 Kings 4:16

  Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

• 1 Kings 4:17

  Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

• 1 Kings 4:18

  Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

• 1 Kings 4:19

  Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.

• 1 Kings 4:20

  Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

• 1 Kings 4:21

  Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

• 1 Kings 4:22

  Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,

• 1 Kings 4:23

  ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.

• 1 Kings 4:24

  For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.

• 1 Kings 4:26

  Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

• 1 Kings 4:27

  Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month. They let nothing be lacking.

• 1 Kings 4:28

  They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty.

• 1 Kings 4:29

  God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

• 1 Kings 4:30

  Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

• 1 Kings 4:31

  For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.

• 1 Kings 4:32

  He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs numbered one thousand five.

• 1 Kings 4:33

  He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.

• 1 Kings 4:34

  People of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sent by all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

• 1 Kings 7:1

  Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

• 1 Kings 7:2

  For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

• 1 Kings 7:3

  It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row.

• 1 Kings 7:4

  There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks.

• 1 Kings 7:5

  All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was facing window in three ranks.

• 1 Kings 7:6

  He made the porch of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits; with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them.

• 1 Kings 7:7

  He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

• 1 Kings 7:8

  His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.

• 1 Kings 7:9

  All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.

• 1 Kings 7:10

  The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

• 1 Kings 7:11

  Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

• 1 Kings 7:12

  The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.

• 1 Kings 8:65

  So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

• 1 Kings 9:1

  When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,

• 1 Kings 9:2

  Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

• 1 Kings 9:3

  Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

• 1 Kings 9:4

  As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

• 1 Kings 9:5

  then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’

• 1 Kings 9:6

  But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;

• 1 Kings 9:7

  then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

• 1 Kings 9:8

  Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’

• 1 Kings 9:9

  and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’”

• 1 Kings 9:10

  At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, Yahweh’s house and the king’s house

• 1 Kings 9:11

  (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

• 1 Kings 9:12

  Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.

• 1 Kings 9:13

  He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.

• 1 Kings 9:15

  This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

• 1 Kings 9:16

  Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

• 1 Kings 9:17

  Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,

• 1 Kings 9:18

  Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness,

• 1 Kings 9:19

  all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

• 1 Kings 9:21

  their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.

• 1 Kings 9:24

  But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.

• 1 Kings 9:28

  They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

• 1 Kings 10:1

  When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

• 1 Kings 10:2

  She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

• 1 Kings 10:3

  Solomon answered all her questions. There was not anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her.

• 1 Kings 10:4

  When the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,

• 1 Kings 10:5

  the food of his table, the sitting of his servants, the attendance of his officials, their clothing, his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.

• 1 Kings 10:6

  She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.

• 1 Kings 10:7

  However I didn’t believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.

• 1 Kings 10:8

  Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

• 1 Kings 10:9

  Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

• 1 Kings 10:10

  She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

• 1 Kings 10:11

  The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees and precious stones.

• 1 Kings 10:12

  The king made of the almug trees pillars for Yahweh’s house, and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers; no such almug trees came or were seen, to this day.

• 1 Kings 10:13

  King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own land, she and her servants.

• 1 Kings 10:16

  King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler.

• 1 Kings 10:17

  he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

• 1 Kings 10:18

  Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

• 1 Kings 10:19

  There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.

• 1 Kings 10:20

  Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom.

• 1 Kings 10:21

  All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon.

• 1 Kings 10:22

  For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

• 1 Kings 10:23

  So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

• 1 Kings 10:24

  All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

• 1 Kings 10:26

  Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he kept in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

• 1 Kings 10:28

  The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

• 1 Kings 10:29

  A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty shekels; and so they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites, and to the kings of Syria.

• 1 Kings 11:1

  Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

• 1 Kings 11:2

  of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

• 1 Kings 11:3

  He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

• 1 Kings 11:4

  When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

• 1 Kings 11:5

  For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

• 1 Kings 11:6

  Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 11:7

  Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

• 1 Kings 11:8

  So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

• 1 Kings 11:9

  Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

• 1 Kings 11:10

  and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which Yahweh commanded.

• 1 Kings 11:11

  Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.

• 1 Kings 11:12

  Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

• 1 Kings 11:13

  However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”

• 1 Kings 12:4

  “Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

• 2 Kings 23:13

  The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.

• 1 Chronicles 6:10

  Johanan became the father of Azariah, who executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 7:11

  All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.

• 1 Chronicles 17:11

  It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

• 1 Chronicles 17:12

  He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

• 1 Chronicles 17:13

  I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;

• 1 Chronicles 17:14

  but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.”’”

• 1 Chronicles 23:1

  Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 28:6

  He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

• 1 Chronicles 28:7

  I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues to do my commandments and my ordinances, as it is today.’

• 1 Chronicles 29:22

  and ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.

• 1 Chronicles 29:24

  All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.

• 1 Chronicles 29:25

  Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and gave to him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 1:7

  That night, God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for what you want me to give you.”

• 2 Chronicles 1:8

  Solomon said to God, “You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 1:9

  Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

• 2 Chronicles 1:10

  Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

• 2 Chronicles 1:11

  God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king,

• 2 Chronicles 1:12

  therefore wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you had, and none after you will have.”

• 2 Chronicles 1:14

  Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 1:15

  The king made silver and gold to be as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars to be as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

• 2 Chronicles 1:16

  The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue. The king’s merchants purchased them from Kue.

• 2 Chronicles 1:17

  They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty. They also exported them to the Hittite kings and the Syrian kings.

• 2 Chronicles 7:8

  So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.

• 2 Chronicles 7:11

  Thus Solomon finished Yahweh’s house and the king’s house; and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in Yahweh’s house and in his own house.

• 2 Chronicles 7:12

  Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.

• 2 Chronicles 7:13

  “If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

• 2 Chronicles 7:14

  if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• 2 Chronicles 7:15

  Now my eyes will be open my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.

• 2 Chronicles 7:16

  For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.

• 2 Chronicles 7:17

  “As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

• 2 Chronicles 7:18

  then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’

• 2 Chronicles 7:19

  But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

• 2 Chronicles 7:20

  then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

• 2 Chronicles 7:21

  This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’

• 2 Chronicles 7:22

  They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.’”

• 2 Chronicles 8:1

  At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built Yahweh’s house and his own house,

• 2 Chronicles 8:2

  Solomon built the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

• 2 Chronicles 8:8

  of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.

• 2 Chronicles 8:9

  But of the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

• 2 Chronicles 8:10

  These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.

• 2 Chronicles 8:11

  Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city to the house that he had built for her; for he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where Yahweh’s ark has come are holy.”

• 2 Chronicles 8:12

  Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on Yahweh’s altar, which he had built before the porch,

• 2 Chronicles 8:13

  even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times per year, during the feast of unleavened bread, during the feast of weeks, and during the feast of tents.

• 2 Chronicles 8:14

  He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate, for David the man of God had so commanded.

• 2 Chronicles 8:15

  They didn’t depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

• 2 Chronicles 8:16

  Now all the work of Solomon was prepared from the day of the foundation of Yahweh’s house until it was finished. So Yahweh’s house was completed.

• 2 Chronicles 8:17

  Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.

• 2 Chronicles 8:18

  Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 9:1

  When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

• 2 Chronicles 9:2

  Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her.

• 2 Chronicles 9:3

  When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,

• 2 Chronicles 9:4

  the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers also, their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.

• 2 Chronicles 9:5

  She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom.

• 2 Chronicles 9:6

  However I didn’t believe their words until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me. You exceed the fame that I heard!

• 2 Chronicles 9:7

  Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.

• 2 Chronicles 9:8

  Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore made he you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

• 2 Chronicles 9:9

  She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones. There was never before such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 9:10

  The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum trees and precious stones.

• 2 Chronicles 9:11

  The king used algum tree wood to make terraces for Yahweh’s house and for the king’s house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers. There were none like these seen before in the land of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 9:12

  King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

• 2 Chronicles 9:13

  Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,

• 2 Chronicles 9:14

  besides that which the traders and merchants brought. All the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 9:15

  King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one buckler.

• 2 Chronicles 9:16

  He made three hundred shields of beaten gold. Three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

• 2 Chronicles 9:17

  Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

• 2 Chronicles 9:18

  There were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.

• 2 Chronicles 9:19

  Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. There was nothing like it made in any other kingdom.

• 2 Chronicles 9:20

  All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 9:21

  For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

• 2 Chronicles 9:22

  So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

• 2 Chronicles 9:23

  All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

• 2 Chronicles 9:24

  They each brought tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules every year.

• 2 Chronicles 9:25

  Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 9:26

  He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

• 2 Chronicles 9:27

  The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

• 2 Chronicles 9:28

  They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt and out of all lands.

• 2 Chronicles 9:29

  Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren’t they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

• 2 Chronicles 9:30

  Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

• 2 Chronicles 9:31

  Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in his father David’s city: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 10:4

  “Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

• 2 Chronicles 10:10

  The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

• 2 Chronicles 10:14

  and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

• 2 Chronicles 10:15

  So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

• 2 Chronicles 10:23
• 2 Chronicles 10:27
• 2 Chronicles 35:4

  Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

• Nehemiah 12:45

  They performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the purification, and so did the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

• Nehemiah 13:26

  Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

• Psalms 45:2

  You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

• Psalms 45:3

  Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

• Psalms 45:4

  In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.

• Psalms 45:5

  Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

• Psalms 45:6

  Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

• Psalms 45:7

  You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

• Psalms 45:8

  All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

• Psalms 45:9

  Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

• Psalms 45:10

  Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

• Psalms 45:11

  So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

• Psalms 45:12

  The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.

• Psalms 45:13

  The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

• Psalms 45:14

  She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.

• Psalms 45:15

  With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king’s palace.

• Psalms 45:16

  Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.

• Psalms 132:11

  Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

• Ecclesiastes 1:12

  I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

• Ecclesiastes 1:16

  I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”

• Ecclesiastes 2:4

  I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

• Ecclesiastes 2:5

  I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

• Ecclesiastes 2:6

  I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

• Ecclesiastes 2:8

  I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men — musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

• Ecclesiastes 2:9

  So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

• Jeremiah 52:20

  They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.

• Matthew 1:6

  Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.

• Matthew 6:29

  yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.

• Matthew 12:42

  The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.

• Luke 12:27

  Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.