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And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

And those officers provided food for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon's table, a man in his month: they did not lack anything.

They also brought barley and straw for the horses and mules to the place where the officers were, each man according to his charge.

For he was wiser than all men; wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his name was in all nations all around.

And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were a thousand and five.

And there came some from all the people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.

And Hiram the king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he heard that they had anointed him king instead of his father. For Hiram was a lover of David all his days.

You knew my father David, that he was not able to build a house to the name of Jehovah his God because of the wars that were all around him, until Jehovah had put them under the soles of his feet.

And Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees, all his desire.

And Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat, food for his house; and twenty measures of beaten oil. This Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.

And Solomon built his own house for thirteen years. And he finished all his house.

As to his house where he lived, the other court was within the porch, as this work was. Solomon also made a house for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken, like this porch.

He was the son of a widow woman of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father a man of Tyre, an engraver in bronze. And he was filled with the wisdom and understanding and knowledge to do all work in bronze. And he came to King Solomon and did all his work.

And it was complete, all the work that King Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah. And Solomon brought in the sanctified things of his father David: the silver, and the gold, and the vessels he had put into the treasuries of the house of Jehovah.

And the king turned around his face and blessed the whole assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel was standing.

And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of Israel, who spoke by His mouth with my father David, and by his hand has fulfilled it , saying,

And Jehovah has lifted up His Word that He spoke; for I have risen up instead of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spoke, and have built the house for the name of Jehovah the God of Israel;

And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah, across from the assembly of Israel, and spread his hands toward the heavens;

Yet You have turned toward the prayer of Your servant, and to his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today;

If any man sins against his neighbor, and an oath be exacted of him to cause him to swear, and the oath has come before Your altar in this house,