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.
13 And he said, What cities arethese which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called
them the land of Cabul unto this day.
14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
15 And this isthe 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
Gezer.
16 ForPharaoh 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 fora present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his
horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the
land of his dominion.
20 Andall the people that wereleft of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and
Jebusites, which werenot of the children of Israel,
21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were
not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they weremen of war, and
his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
23 These werethe chief of the officers that wereover Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty,
which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomonhad
built for her: then did he build Millo.
25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the
altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that wasbefore the
LORD. So he finished the house.
26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which isbeside Eloth, on the shore of
the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the
servants of Solomon.
28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and
brought itto king Solomon.
1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD,
she came to prove him with hard questions.
2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very
much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of
all that was in her heart.
3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hid from the king, which he
told her not.
4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,
5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his
ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the
house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of
thy wisdom.

7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the
half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
8 Happy arethy men, happy arethese thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and
that hear thy wisdom.
9 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel:
because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store,
and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of
Sheba gave to king Solomon.
11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty
of almug trees, and precious stones.
12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's
house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto
this day.
13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside
thatwhich Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she
and her servants.
14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six
talents of gold,
15 Beside that he hadof the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of
all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets ofbeaten gold: six hundred shekelsof gold went
to one target.
17 And he madethree hundred shields ofbeaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield:
and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne wasround behind: and there werestays
on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was
not the like made in any kingdom.
21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were ofgold, and all the vessels of the house of the
forest of Lebanon were ofpure gold; none were ofsilver: it was nothing accounted of in the days
of Solomon.
22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came
the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and
garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four
hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots,
and with the king at Jerusalem.
27 And the king made silver to bein Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to beas the
sycomore trees that arein the vale, for abundance.
28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received
the linen yarn at a price.
29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekelsof silver, and an horse
for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did
they bring themout by their means.

1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women
of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, andHittites;
2 Of the nations concerningwhich the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in
to them, neither shall they come in unto you: forsurely they will turn away your heart after
their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives
turned away his heart.
4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, thathis wives turned away his heart after other
gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as wasthe heart of David his father.
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the
abomination of the Ammonites.
6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as didDavid
his father.
7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is
before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their
gods.
9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of
Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he
kept not that which the LORD commanded.
11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not
kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom
from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: butI will rend it out
of the hand of thy son.
13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; butwill give one tribe to thy son for David my
servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
14 And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he wasof the king's
seed in Edom.
15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up
to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in
Edom:)
17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt;
Hadad beingyet a little child.
18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran,
and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him
victuals, and gave him land.
19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister
of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's
house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain
of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest
to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
23 And God stirred him up anotheradversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord
Hadadezer king of Zobah: