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behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.

I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.

And the king said, "Bring me a sword." So a sword was brought before the king.

so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.'

So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,

So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.

When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.

So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.

So Solomon built the house and finished it.

The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.

He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.

So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,

The great court had three courses of cut stone all around, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord and the vestibule of the house.

The capitals were on the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the latticework. There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows all around, and so with the other capital.

Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the Lord :

And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.

So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord : the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence,

And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.