Bible Verses About Solomon

Your robes are all fragrant with myrrh, aloes and cassia; from ivory palaces stringed instruments bring you joy.

Daughters of kings are among your favorites; at your right stands the queen in gold from Ofir.

Listen, daughter! Think, pay attention! Forget your own people and your father's house,

and the king will desire your beauty; for he is your lord, so honor him.

Then the daughter of Tzor, the richest of peoples, will court your favor with gifts.

Inside [the palace], the king's daughter looks splendid, attired in checker-work embroidered with gold.

In brocade, she will be led to the king, to you, with the virgins in her retinue.

They will be led in with gladness and joy, they will enter the king's palace.

You will have sons to succeed your ancestors; you will make them princes in all the land.

I will make your name known through all generations; thus the peoples will praise you forever and ever.

ADONAI swore an oath to David, an oath he will not break: "One of the sons from your own body I will set on your throne.

I, Kohelet, have been king over Isra'el in Yerushalayim.

I said to myself, "Look, I have acquired much wisdom, more than anyone ruling Yerushalayim before me."Yes, I experienced a great deal of wisdom and knowledge;

I worked on a grand scale - I built myself palaces, planted myself vineyards,

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

I made myself pools from which to water the trees springing up in the forest.

I amassed silver and gold, the wealth of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, things that provide sensual delight, and a good many concubines.

So I grew great, surpassing all who preceded me in Yerushalayim; my wisdom, too, stayed with me.

The bronze in the two columns, the one Sea, and the twelve bronze bulls under the bases, all of which Shlomo had made for the house of ADONAI, was more than could be weighed.

Yishai was the father of David the king. David was the father of Shlomo (his mother was the wife of Uriyah),

yet I tell you that not even Shlomo in all his glory was clothed as beautifully as one of these.

The Queen of the South will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shlomo, but what is here now is greater than Shlomo.

Think about the wild irises, and how they grow. They neither work nor spin thread; yet, I tell you, not even Shlomo in all his glory was clothed as beautifully as one of these.

Later on, our fathers who had received it brought it in with Y’hoshua when they took the Land away from the nations that God drove out before them. “So it was until the days of David.

He enjoyed God’s favor and asked if he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Ya‘akov