Solomon

There were 550 chief officers over Shlomo's work, in charge of the workers.

Pharaoh's daughter came up from the City of David to her house, which Shlomo had built for her. After that he built the Millo.

Three times a year Shlomo offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he had built for ADONAI, offering incense with them on the altar before ADONAI. So he finished the house.

King Shlomo built a fleet of ships in 'Etzyon-Gever, by Elot on the shore of the Sea of Suf in the land of Edom.

Hiram sent some of his own servants, experienced sailors who understood the sea, to serve with Shlomo's servants.

They went to Ofir and took from there gold, fourteen tons of it, which they brought back to King Shlomo.

When the queen of Sh'va heard what was being said about Shlomo because of the name of ADONAI, she came to test him with difficult questions.

She arrived in Yerushalayim accompanied by a very great retinue, including camels bearing spices and gold in great abundance, and precious stones. When she appeared before Shlomo she spoke with him about everything on her heart,

and Shlomo answered all her questions; nothing was hidden from the king that he could not explain to her.

After the queen of Sh'va had seen all Shlomo's wisdom, the palace he had built,

Then she gave the king four tons of gold, a huge amount of spices, and precious stones; never again did there arrive such an abundance of spices as those the queen of Sh'va gave to King Shlomo.

King Shlomo gave the queen of Sh'va everything she wanted, whatever she asked, in addition to the presents he gave her on his own initiative. After this, she returned and went back to her own country, she and her servants.

The weight of the gold Shlomo received annually came to twenty-two tons of gold,

King Shlomo made 200 large shields of hammered gold; fifteen pounds of gold went into one shield.

All King Shlomo's drinking vessels were of gold; and all the utensils in the House of the L'vanon Forest were of pure gold; none was of silver, for in Shlomo's time it was regarded as having little value.

So King Shlomo surpassed all the kings on earth in both wealth and wisdom.

All the earth sought to have an audience with Shlomo, in order to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

Shlomo amassed chariots and horsemen; he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen; he assigned them to the chariot cities and to the king in Yerushalayim.

Shlomo's horses had been brought from Egypt and from Keveh, with the king's agents having bought them from the dealers in Keveh at the going price.

King Shlomo loved many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh. There were women from the Mo'avi, 'Amoni, Edomi, Tzidoni and Hitti -

nations about which ADONAI had said to the people of Isra'el, "You are not to go among them or they among you, because they will turn your hearts away toward their gods." But Shlomo was deeply attached to them by his love.

For when Shlomo became old, his wives turned his heart away toward other gods; so that he was not wholehearted with ADONAI his God, as David his father had been.

For Shlomo followed 'Ashtoret the goddess of the Tzidoni and Milkom the abomination of the 'Amoni.

Thus Shlomo did what was evil in ADONAI's view and did not fully follow ADONAI, as David his father had done.

Shlomo built a high place for K'mosh the abomination of Mo'av on the hill on front of Yerushalayim, and another for Molekh the abomination of the people of 'Amon.