Solomon - continued - Part 2

They Ministered Before The Dwelling Place Of - The Tabernacle

Of The Congregation - with singing until Solomon had built

The House Of God In Jerusalem - and then they waited on their Office

According To Their Order - these are they that waited with their Children.

Solomon The Son Of David - was strengthened in his Kingdom and

God Was With Him - and magnified him exceedingly.

Then Solomon Spake - to all Hebrews

To The Captains Of Thousands - and of hundreds and

To The Judges - and to every Governor in all Hebrews the Chief of the Fathers.

So Solomon and All The Congregation - with him

Went To The High Place - that was at Gibeon

For There Was The Tabernacle - Of The Congregation Of God

That Moses The Servant Of God - had made in The Wilderness.

The Ark Of God - had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place that David

Had prepared for it for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

Moreover The Brasen Altar that Bezaleel the son of Uri the son of Hur had made

He put before The Tabernacle of God and Solomon and

The Congregation sought to it.

Solomon went up thither to The Brasen Altar before God that was at

The Tabernacle of The Congregation offered a thousand offerings upon it.

In that night did God appear to Solomon and said to him

Ask what I shall give thee

Solomon said to God Thou hast shewed great mercy to David my Father and

hast made me to reign in his stead.

Now O God let thy promise to David my Father be established for

thou hast made me King over a People like the dust of the Earth in multitude.

Give me now wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in

before this People for who can judge this thy People that is so great?

God said to Solomon Because this was in thine heart and

thou hast not asked riches wealth or honour nor the life of thine enemies

neither yet hast asked long life but hast asked wisdom and knowledge

for thyself that thou mayest judge my People over whom I have made thee King.

Wisdom and knowledge is granted to thee - I will give thee riches and wealth and

Honour such as none of the Kings have had that have been before thee

Neither shall there any after thee have the like.

Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon

to Jerusalem from before The Tabernacle of The Congregation and

reigned over Hebrews.

Solomon Gathered Chariots - and horsemen and he had a thousand and

Four Hundred Chariots - and twelve thousand horsemen

That He Placed In The chariot Cities - and with The King at Jerusalem.

The King made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones and

cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.

Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt and linen yarn

the King's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

They Fetched Up - and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot.

For Six Hundred Shekels Of Silver - and an horse for an hundred and fifty and

So Brought They - out horses for all the Kings of the Hittites and

for the Kings of Syria by their means.

Thus all the work that Solomon made for

The House Of God was finished and Solomon

Brought in all the things that David his Father had dedicated and

the silver and the gold and

All the instruments put he among the treasures of The House Of God.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Hebrews - and all the heads of the tribes

The Chief of the Fathers of the Children of Hebrews to Jerusalem

To bring up The Ark Of The Covenant of God out of the City of David that is Zion.

Wherefore all the Men of Hebrews Assembled Themselves - to the King

in the feast that was in the seventh month.

All the elders of Hebrews came and the Levites took up The Ark.

They brought up The Ark and The Tabernacle of The Congregation and

all the holy vessels that were in The Tabernacle

these did the Priests and the Levites bring up.

King Solomon and all The Congregation of Hebrews that were assembled

to him before The Ark.

The Priests brought in The Ark Of The Covenant of God to his place

to The Oracle of The House into The Most Holy Place

even under the wings of The Cherubims.

For The Cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of The Ark and

The Cherubims covered The Ark and The Staves thereof above.

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.

There it is to this day.

There was nothing in The Ark save the two tables that Moses put therein

at Horeb when God made a Covenant with

the Children of Hebrews when they came out of Egypt.

When the Priests were come out of The Holy Place for all the Priests

that were present were sanctified and did not then wait by course.

The Levites that were the singers all of them of Asaph of HeMan of Jeduthun

with their sons and their brethren being arrayed in white linen having

Cymbals Psalteries - and harps stood at the east end of The Altar and

With Them - an hundred and twenty Priests sounding with trumpets.

As The Trumpeters and Singers - were as one to make one sound to be heard.

in praising and thanking God and when they lifted up their voice with

the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick and praised God saying

For he is good for his mercy endureth for ever that

then the house was filled with a cloud even The House Of God.

So that the Priests could not stand to minister - by reason of The Cloud

for the glory of God had filled The House Of God.

Then said Solomon God hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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

The King turned his face and blessed the whole congregation of Hebrews and

all The Congregation of Hebrews stood.

He said Blessed be God of Hebrews who hath with his hands fulfilled

that he spake with his mouth to my Father David saying

Since the day that I brought forth my People out of the land of Egypt

I chose no City among

All the tribes of Hebrews to build an house in that my name might be there

Neither chose I any Man to be a ruler over my People Hebrews.

I have chosen Jerusalem that my name might be there

have chosen David to be over my People Hebrews.

Now it was in the heart of David my Father to build an house

for the name of God of Hebrews.

God 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

notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house but thy son

that shall come forth out of thy loins he shall build the house for my name.

God therefore hath performed 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 Hebrews as God promised and

have built the house for the name of God of Hebrews.

In it have I put The Ark wherein is The Covenant of God

that he made with the Children of Hebrews.

He stood before The Altar of God in the presence of all

The Congregation of Hebrews and spread forth his hands.

For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five cubits long and

five cubits broad and three cubits high and had set it in the midst of The Court

upon it he stood and kneeled down upon his knees before

all The Congregation of Hebrews and spread forth his hands toward heaven.

Said O God of Hebrews there is no God like thee in the Heaven nor in the Earth

that keepest Covenant and shewest mercy to thy servants

that walk before thee with all their hearts.

Thou that hast kept with thy servant David my Father

that thou hast promised him and spakest with thy mouth and

hast fulfilled it with thine hand as it is this day.

Now therefore O God of Hebrews keep with thy servant David my Father

that thou hast promised him saying There shall not fail thee a Man

in my sight to sit upon the throne of Hebrews yet so that thy Children

take heed to their way to walk in my Law as thou hast walked before me.

Now then O God of Hebrews let thy word be verified

that thou hast spoken to thy servant David.

Will God in very deed dwell with Men on the Earth ?

Behold Heaven - and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain thee

how much less this house that I have built !

Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplication

O God to hearken to the cry and the prayer that thy servant prayeth before thee.

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 to the prayer that thy servant prayeth toward this place.

Hearken therefore to the supplications of thy servant and of thy People Hebrews

that they shall make toward this place hear thou from thy dwelling place

even from heaven and when thou hearest forgive.

If a Man sin against his neighbour and an oath be laid upon him

to make him swear and the oath come before thine altar in this house

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.

If thy People Hebrews be put to the worse before the enemy because

they have sinned against thee and shall return and confess thy name and

pray and make supplication before thee in this house.

Then hear thou from the Heavens - and forgive the sin of

thy People Hebrews and bring them again to the land

that thou gavest to them and to their Fathers.

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

Then hear thou from Heaven and forgive the sin of thy servants and

of thy People Hebrews when thou hast taught them the good way

wherein they should walk and send rain upon thy land

that thou hast given to thy People for an inheritance.

If there be dearth in the land if there be pestilence if there be blasting or

mildew locusts or caterpillers if their enemies besiege them

in the Cities of their land whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be.

Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any Man or

of all thy People Hebrews when every one shall know his own sore and

his own grief and shall spread forth his hands in this house.

Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place and forgive and

render to every Man according to all his ways whose heart

thou knowest for thou only knowest the hearts of the Children of Men.

That they may fear thee to walk in thy ways

so long as they live in the land that thou gavest to our Fathers.

Now my God let I beseech thee thine eyes be open and

let thine ears be attent to the prayer that is made in this place.

Now therefore arise O God into thy resting place thou and

The Ark of thy strength

Let thy Priests O God be clothed with salvation and

let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

O God turn not away the face of thine

Anointed remember the mercies of David thy servant.

At The End of Twenty Years - wherein Solomon had built the house of God and

his own house the Cities that Huram had restored to Solomon.

Solomon built them and caused the Children of Hebrews to dwell there.

Solomon went to Hamathzobah and prevailed against it.

He built Tadmor in The Wilderness and all the store Cities that he built in Hamath.

Also he built Bethhoron the upper and Bethhoron the nether fenced Cities

With walls Gates and bars Baalath and all the store Cities that Solomon had and

All the chariot Cities and the Cities of the horsemen and

All that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and

throughout all the land of his dominion.

As for all the People that were left of the Hittites and the Amorites and

the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites that were not of Hebrews.

Of Their Children - who were left after them in The Land.

Whom The Children of Hebrews Consumed Not Them - did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.

Of the Children of Hebrews - did Solomon make no servants for His Works.

They Were Men Of War - and Chief of his captains and

Captains Of His Chariots - and horsemen.

These Were The Chief Of King Solomon's Officers - two hundred and fifty.

that bare rule over the People.

Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the City of David

to the house that he had built for her for he said

My wife shall not dwell in The House of David King of Hebrews

Because the places are holy whereto The Ark of God hath come.

Then Solomon offered offerings to God on The Altar of God that he had built

Before the porch even after a certain rate every day offering

According to the commandment of Moses on the sabbaths and

On the new moons and On the solemn feasts three times in the year

even in the feast of unleavened bread and

In the feast of weeks and in the feast of tabernacles.

He appointed according to the order of David his Father

The Courses Of The Priests To Their Service - and the Levites to their charges

to praise and minister before the Priests

As the duty of every day required The Porters

also by their courses at every Gate

For So Had David The Man of God Commanded.

They departed not from The Commandment of the King

to the Priests and Levites concerning any matter or concerning the treasures.

Now All The Works Of Solomon - was prepared to the day of The Foundation of The House Of God until it was finished.

So The House Of God - was perfected.

Then Went Solomon - to Eziongeber to Eloth at the sea side in the land of Edom.

Huram Sent Him - by the hands of his servants ships and servants.

That Had Knowledges - of the sea and they went with the servants of Solomon.

To Ophir - and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought them to King Solomon.

Solomon’s Palaces

King Solomon Built Himself a Palace - and called it Forest of Lebanon.

Built His Egyptian Wife - another Palace using

Phoenician craftsmen and materials of Lebanon

Solomon Also Built a Palace - for himself it took him thirteen years.

Hall of The Forest of Lebanon - 44 meters long 22 meters wide 13.5 meters high.

Had Three Rows of Cedar Pillars - fifteen in each row

with cedar beams resting on them.

The Ceiling - of cedar extending over store rooms supported by The Pillars.

In Each of The Two Side Walls - three rows of windows.

Doorways and Windows - rectangular frames

three rows of windows in each wall faced the opposite rows.

The Hall of Columns - 22 meters long and 13.5 meters wide.

It Had a Covered Porch - supported by columns.

The Throne Room - cedar panels from floor to rafters also

called Hall of Judgment.

Solomon’s quarters - in another court behind Hall of Judgment

made like the other buildings.

He also built the same kind of house for his wife - the

daughter of the King of Egypt.

King Solomon and all The Congregation of Hebrews -

that were assembled to him

were with him before The Ark sacrificing sheep and oxen

that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

Priests brought in The Ark of The Covenant of God - to his place into

the oracle of The House to The Most Holy Place

even under the wings of the cherubims.

Cherubims spread forth their two wings - over

The Place of The Ark the Cherubims

covered The Ark and The Staves thereof above.

They drew out the staves - that the ends of the staves

were seen out in the holy place

before the oracle and they were not seen without and there they are to this day.

There was nothing in The Ark save the Two Tables of Stone that Moses put there

at Horeb when God made a Covenant with The Children of Hebrews

when they came out of the land of Egypt.

When the priests were come out of The Holy Place

that The Cloud filled The House of God

I have surely built thee an House to dwell in - a settled place

for thee to abide in for ever.

The King turned his face - about blessed all The Congregation of Hebrews and

all The Congregation of Hebrews stood he said Blessed be God of Hebrews

that spake with his mouth to David my Father hath with his hand fulfilled it saying

Therefore now God of Hebrews - keep with thy servant my Father

thou promisedst him saying

There shall not fail thee a Man in my sight to sit on The Throne of Hebrews so

thy Children take heed to Their Way that

They Walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

God indeed dwell on The Earth ? Behold The Heaven and Heaven of Heavens

cannot contain thee how much less this House that I have builded?

When Heaven is shut up 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

There be - in The Land famine if there be pestilence blasting mildew locust or

if there be caterpiller if their enemy besiege them in The Land of their Cities

whatsoever plague whatsoever sickness there be

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 thou only knowest the hearts of all the Children of Men

That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land -

that thou gavest to our Fathers.

Moreover concerning a stranger that is not of thy People -

Hebrews cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake

For they shall hear of thy great name of thy strong hand of thy stretched out arm

when he shall come and pray toward this House

Hear thou in heaven 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 to fear thee as do thy People Hebrews and

that they may know that this house that I have builded is called by thy name.

If thy People go out to battle against their enemy -

whithersoever thou shalt send them and

shall pray to God toward the city that thou hast chosen and

toward the house that I have built for thy name

Return to thee with all The Land - thou gavest to our Fathers The City and

The House that I have built for thy name

Out of Egypt from - the midst of the furnace of iron

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 God.

It was so that when Solomon - had made an end of praying all this prayer and

supplication to God he arose from before The Altar of God

from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to Heaven.

He stood and blessed all The Congregation of Hebrews - with a loud voice saying

Blessed be God that hath given rest to his People Hebrews

according to all that he promised there

hath not failed one word of all his good promise

that he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

God be with us as he was with our Fathers let him not leave us nor forsake us

Solomon offered a sacrifice of Peace offerings - he offered to God

Twenty Two Thousand - oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep.

So The King and All The Children Of The Hebrews - dedicated The House Of God.

The Same Day Did The King Hallow - the middle of The Court that was before.

The House Of God - for there he offered offerings and Peace. offerings because.

The Brasen Altar - that was before God.

Was Too Little - to receive The Peace Offerings.

At That Time Solomon Held a Feast - all Hebrews with him a great Congregation

From The Entering In - of Hamath to the River of Egypt before God

Seven Days and Seven Days - even fourteen days.

At The Seventh Time - that he said

Behold There Ariseth A Little Cloud - out of the sea

Like A Man's Hand He Said - Go up say to Ahab Prepare Thy Chariot and

Get thee down that the rain stop thee not. Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

Moab rebelled against The Hebrews - after death of Ahab.

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