Solomon

• Reign of Solomon

Solomon (Person)· Jedidiah

Father

David

Mother

Bathsheba

Spouse

Naamah· Pharaoh's daughter· Solomon's wife

Siblings

Absalom· Adonijah· Amnon· Chileab· Eliada· Eliphelet· Elishama· Elishua· Elpelet· Ibhar· Ithream· Japhia· Jerimoth· Nathan· Nepheg· Nogah· Shammua· Shephatiah· Shobab· Tamar

Children

Basemath· Rehoboam· Taphath

• Σολομών, Σαλωμών·Solomon
• יְדִידְיָה·Jedidiahmeans “beloved of the Lord”
• שְׁלֹמֹה·Solomon

Includes 171 verses that refer to Solomon without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

1. 1 Kings 6:21שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
   So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
2. 1 Kings 6:22Referred to, not named
   So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
3. 1 Kings 6:23Referred to, not named
   In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.
4. 1 Kings 6:27Referred to, not named
   And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.
5. 1 Kings 6:28Referred to, not named
   He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.
6. 1 Kings 6:29Referred to, not named
   Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.
7. 1 Kings 6:30Referred to, not named
   And he overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.
8. 1 Kings 6:31Referred to, not named
   For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.
9. 1 Kings 6:32Referred to, not named
   The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.
10. 1 Kings 6:33Referred to, not named
    In the same way he made four-sided doorposts of olive wood for the sanctuary entrance.
11. 1 Kings 6:35Referred to, not named
    He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
12. 1 Kings 6:36Referred to, not named
    Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
13. 1 Kings 6:38Referred to, not named
    In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.
14. 1 Kings 7:1שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.
15. 1 Kings 7:2Referred to, not named
    He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.
16. 1 Kings 7:6Referred to, not named
    Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.
17. 1 Kings 7:7Referred to, not named
    In addition, he built a hall for the throne, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.
18. 1 Kings 7:8שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.
19. 1 Kings 7:13שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Now King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre.
20. 1 Kings 7:14שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.
21. 1 Kings 7:40שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:
22. 1 Kings 7:45שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    …and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
23. 1 Kings 7:47שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.
24. 1 Kings 7:48שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
25. 1 Kings 7:51שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    So all the work that King Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
26. 1 Kings 8:1שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
27. 1 Kings 8:2שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.
28. 1 Kings 8:5שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
29. 1 Kings 8:12שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.
30. 1 Kings 8:13Referred to, not named
    I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”
31. 1 Kings 8:22שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
32. 1 Kings 8:23Referred to, not named
    …and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
33. 1 Kings 8:24Referred to, not named
    You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.
34. 1 Kings 8:25Referred to, not named
    Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
35. 1 Kings 8:26Referred to, not named
    And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.
36. 1 Kings 8:27Referred to, not named
    But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
37. 1 Kings 8:28Referred to, not named
    Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.
38. 1 Kings 8:54שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
39. 1 Kings 8:55Referred to, not named
    And he stood and blessed the whole assembly of Israel in a loud voice, saying:
40. 1 Kings 8:57Referred to, not named
    May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us or forsake us.
41. 1 Kings 8:58Referred to, not named
    May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.
42. 1 Kings 8:59Referred to, not named
    And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,
43. 1 Kings 8:63שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
44. 1 Kings 8:65שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
45. 1 Kings 8:66Referred to, not named
    On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.
46. 1 Kings 9:1שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
47. 1 Kings 9:2שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    …the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
48. 1 Kings 9:3Referred to, not named
    And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
49. 1 Kings 9:4Referred to, not named
    And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
50. 1 Kings 9:5Referred to, not named
    …then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
51. 1 Kings 9:10שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
52. 1 Kings 9:11שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.
53. 1 Kings 9:12שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
54. 1 Kings 9:15שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
55. 1 Kings 9:16שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
56. 1 Kings 9:17שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,
57. 1 Kings 9:19שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    …as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.
58. 1 Kings 9:21שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    …their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
59. 1 Kings 9:22שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slavery, because they were his men of war, his servants, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.
60. 1 Kings 9:23שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.
61. 1 Kings 9:24Referred to, not named
    As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
62. 1 Kings 9:25שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple.
63. 1 Kings 9:26שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
64. 1 Kings 9:27שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    And Hiram sent his servants, sailors who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
65. 1 Kings 9:28שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
66. 1 Kings 10:1שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.
67. 1 Kings 10:2שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.
68. 1 Kings 10:3שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for the king to explain.
69. 1 Kings 10:4שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
70. 1 Kings 10:5Referred to, not named
    …the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
71. 1 Kings 10:10שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again were spices in such abundance brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
72. 1 Kings 10:13שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired—whatever she asked—besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned to her own country, along with her servants.
73. 1 Kings 10:14שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,
74. 1 Kings 10:16שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.
75. 1 Kings 10:21שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
76. 1 Kings 10:23שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
77. 1 Kings 10:24שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    The whole world sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
78. 1 Kings 10:26שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
79. 1 Kings 10:28שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
80. 1 Kings 11:1שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
81. 1 Kings 11:2שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
82. 1 Kings 11:3Referred to, not named
    He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
83. 1 Kings 11:4שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
84. 1 Kings 11:5שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
85. 1 Kings 11:6שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.
86. 1 Kings 11:7שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
87. 1 Kings 11:8Referred to, not named
    He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
88. 1 Kings 11:9שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
89. 1 Kings 11:10Referred to, not named
    Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.
90. 1 Kings 11:11שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
91. 1 Kings 11:12Referred to, not named
    Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
92. 1 Kings 11:13Referred to, not named
    Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
93. 1 Kings 11:14שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.
94. 1 Kings 11:23Referred to, not named
    And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,
95. 1 Kings 11:25שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Rezon was Israel’s enemy throughout the days of Solomon, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled over Aram with hostility toward Israel.
96. 1 Kings 11:26שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,
97. 1 Kings 11:27שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    …and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.
98. 1 Kings 11:28שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.
99. 1 Kings 11:31שְׁלֹמֹה · Solomon
    …and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.
100. 1 Kings 11:32Referred to, not named
     But one tribe will remain for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.