Bible Verses About Solomon

For he ruled all the area this side of the [Euphrates] River, from Tifsach to 'Azah. He was over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace all around him, on every side.

Shlomo also had 40,000 stalls for the horses used with his chariots and 12,000 horsemen.

Those officers [named above] supplied food and other materials for King Shlomo and for everyone for whom Shlomo provided. Each was responsible for his month's supplies; they saw to it that nothing was lacking.

They also made sure there was barley and straw where it was needed for the horses and draft animals; each filled his quota.

God gave Shlomo exceptional wisdom and understanding, as well as a heart as vast as the sandy beach by the sea.

Shlomo's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of the people from the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

For he was wiser than everyone - wiser than Eitan the Ezrachi and wiser than Heiman, Kalkol and Darda the sons of Machol; so that his fame spread to all the surrounding nations.

He composed 3,000 proverbs and 1,005 songs.

He could discuss trees, from the cedar in the L'vanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall; he could discuss wild animals, poultry, reptiles and fish.

People from all nations came to hear the wisdom of Shlomo, including kings from all over the earth who had heard of his wisdom.

Shlomo built a palace for himself, taking thirteen years to finish it.

For he built the House of the L'vanon Forest 175 feet long, eighty-seven-and-a-half feet wide and fifty-two-and-a-half feet high, on four rows of cedar posts, with cedar beams on the posts.

It had a roof made of cedar and supported by beams lying on forty-five posts, fifteen in a row.

There were three rows of window openings, placed so that the windows on facing walls were opposite each other at all three levels.

All the doors and doorways were rectangular and opposite each other at all three levels.

He made the columned hall eighty-seven-and-a-half feet long and fifty-two-and-a-half feet wide, with a columned, corniced porch in front of it.

He made the Hall of the Throne his place for dispensing justice, that is, the Hall of Judgment; it was covered with cedar from floor to ceiling.

His own living quarters, in the other courtyard, set back from the Hall, were similarly designed. He also made a house like this Hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Shlomo had taken as his wife.

All these buildings were made of expensive stone blocks, cut to measure and finished by saws on the inner surfaces as well as the outer ones. These stones were used from the foundation to the eaves and outward from the buildings all the way to the Great Courtyard.

The foundation was of expensive stone blocks, very large ones - stones fourteen to eighteen feet long.

Above these were costly stones, cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

The surrounding Great Courtyard had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams like the inner courtyard of the house of ADONAI and the courtyard by the hall of the house.

So Shlomo celebrated the festival at that time. All Isra'el, a huge gathering [that had come all the way] from the entrance of Hamat to the Vadi [of Egypt], celebrated with him before ADONAI our God for seven days and then for seven more days - fourteen days in all.

After Shlomo had finished building the house of ADONAI, the royal palace and everything else he wanted to build for himself,

ADONAI appeared to Shlomo a second time, as he had appeared to him in Giv'on.