Solomon

And king Solomon maketh two hundred targets of alloyed gold, six hundred shekels of alloyed gold he causeth to go up on the one target;

And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon are of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon are of refined gold--silver is not reckoned in the days of Solomon for anything;

And king Solomon becometh greater than any of the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom;

and all the kings of the earth are seeking the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God hath put in his heart,

And there are to Solomon four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, and he placed them in cities of the chariot, and with the king in Jerusalem.

and they are bringing out horses from Egypt to Solomon, and from all the lands.

And the rest of the matters of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written beside the matters of Nathan the prophet, and beside the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and with the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?

And Solomon reigneth in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years,

and Solomon lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David his father, and reign doth Rehoboam his son in his stead.

And it cometh to pass, at Jeroboam son of Nebat's--who is in Egypt because he hath fled from the face of Solomon the king--hearing, that Jeroboam turneth back out of Egypt;

And king Rehoboam consulteth with the aged men who have been standing before Solomon his father in his being alive, saying, `How are ye counselling to answer this people?'

`Speak unto Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, and unto all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

And they strengthen the kingdom of Judah, and strengthen Rehoboam son of Solomon, for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.

And Shishak king of Egypt cometh up against Jerusalem, and taketh the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king--the whole he hath taken--and he taketh the shields of gold that Solomon had made;

and rise up doth Jeroboam, son of Nebat, servant of Solomon son of David, and rebelleth against his lord!

`And there are gathered unto him vain men, sons of worthlessness, and they strengthen themselves against Rehoboam son of Solomon, and Rehoboam was a youth, and tender of heart, and hath not strengthened himself against them.

and there is great joy in Jerusalem; for from the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel there is not like this in Jerusalem,

And he placeth the graven image of the idol that he made in the house of God, of which God said unto David, and unto Solomon his son, `In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My name to the age,

and saith to the Levites--who are teaching all Israel--who are sanctified to Jehovah, `Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon son of David king of Israel built; it is not to you a burden on the shoulder. `Now, serve Jehovah your God, and His people Israel,

and prepare, by the house of your fathers, according to your courses, by the writing of David king of Israel, and by the writing of Solomon his son,

Sons of the servants of Solomon: sons of Sotai, sons of Sophereth, sons of Peruda,

All the Nethinim, and the sons of the servants of Solomon are three hundred ninety and two.

Sons of the servants of Solomon: sons of Sotai, sons of Sophereth, sons of Perida,

All the Nethinim and the sons of the servants of Solomon are three hundred ninety and two.

And these are heads of the province who have dwelt in Jerusalem, and in cities of Judah, they have dwelt each in his possession in their cities; Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the sons of the servants of Solomon.