He set up the pillars on the porch in front of the main hall. He erected one pillar on the right side and called it Jakin; he erected the other pillar on the left side and called it Boaz.

So Shimei got up, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to find his servants; Shimei went and brought back his servants from Gath.

He finished building the temple and covered it with rafters and boards made of cedar.

The king responded to the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the older men

He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”

So Solomon finished building the temple.

He plated the cherubs with gold.

The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles.

But now don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; make sure he has a bloody death.”

He said, “Please ask King Solomon if he would give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife, for he won’t refuse you.”

Solomon dismissed Abiathar from his position as priest of the Lord, fulfilling the decree of judgment the Lord made in Shiloh against the family of Eli.

The king then said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”

People from all nations came to hear Solomon’s display of wisdom; they came from all the kings of the earth who heard about his wisdom.

He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.

Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence,

Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.

After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace,

Everyone in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom.

During David’s campaign against Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom.

This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David.