<p class="bodytext">In the month Ziv<n id="1" /> of the fourth year of Solomon&#8217;s reign<n id="2" /> the foundation was laid for the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

<p class="bodytext">In King Rehoboam&#8217;s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

In the third year King Jehoshaphat of Judah came down to visit<n id="1" /> the king of Israel.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Solomon received 666 talents<n id="1" /> of gold per year,<n id="2" />

Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.

and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors<n id="1" /> of wheat as provision for his royal court,<n id="2" /> as well as 20,000 baths<n id="3" /> of pure<n id="4" /> olive oil.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon&#8217;s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv<n id="1" /> (the second month), he began building the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

<p class="bodytext">Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings<n id="1" /> on the altar he had built for the <sc>Lordsc>, burning incense along with them before the <sc>Lordsc>. He made the temple his official worship place.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the <sc>Lordsc> told Elijah,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.&#8221;