The king responded, “Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”

He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.

He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters.

Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold. He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary with gold.

He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary.

On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.

He made a colonnade 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch.

He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet long, six feet wide, and four-and-a-half feet high.

the pure gold lampstands at the entrance to the inner sanctuary (five on the right and five on the left), the gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,

The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its assigned place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubs.

The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the Lord’s glory filled his temple.

and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.

“When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false.

Listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve.

“The time will come when your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, and pray for your help in this temple,

May he make us submissive, so we can follow all his instructions and obey the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh’s daughter moved up from the city of David to the palace Solomon built for her.

Solomon answered all her questions; there was no question too complex for the king.