Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the <sc>Lordsc> which was at the meeting tent, and he offered up a thousand burnt sacrifices.p>

<p class="bodytext">Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses<n id="1" /> and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem.<n id="2" />

He had 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and an innumerable number of soldiers who accompanied him from Egypt, including Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.

Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them;<n id="1" /> 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.<n id="2" />

Zerah the Cushite marched against them with an army of 1,000,000<n id="1" /> men and 300 chariots. He arrived at Mareshah,

These were their divisions by families:p> <p class="bodytext">There were a thousand officers from Judah.<n id="1" /> Adnah the commander led 300,000 skilled warriors,

In one day King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors.<n id="1" />

The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it<n id="1" /> back to Samaria.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">if he should live a thousand years twice, yet does not enjoy his prosperity.p> <p class="poetry">For both of them die!<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-Hamon;p> <p class="poetry">he leased out<n id="1" /> the vineyard to those who maintained it.p> <p class="poetry">Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.p>

At that time<n id="1" /> every place where there had been a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will be overrun<n id="2" /> with thorns and briers.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s messenger<n id="1" /> went out and killed 185,000 troops<n id="2" /> in the Assyrian camp. When they<n id="3" /> got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!<n id="4" />

From this measured area you will measure a length of eight and a quarter miles<n id="1" /> and a width of three and one-third miles;<n id="2" /> in it will be the sanctuary, the most holy place.

An area eight and a quarter miles<n id="1" /> in length and three and one-third miles<n id="2" /> in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities<n id="3" /> in which they will live.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment, you will allot for the city an area one and two-thirds miles<n id="1" /> wide and eight and a quarter miles<n id="2" /> long; it will be for the whole house of Israel.p>

Again he measured 1,750 feet and it was a river I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The remainder, one and two-thirds miles<n id="1" /> in width and eight and a quarter miles<n id="2" /> in length, will be for common use by the city, for houses and for open space. The city will be in the middle of it;

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says this:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers<n id="1" /> will have only a hundred left;p> <p class="poetry">the town<n id="2" /> that marches out with a hundred soldiers<n id="3" /> will have only ten left for the family of Israel.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The rest, on both sides of the holy allotment and the property of the city, will belong to the prince. Extending from the eight and a quarter miles<n id="1" /> of the holy allotment to the east border, and westward from the eight and a quarter miles<n id="2" /> to the west border, alongside the portions, it will belong to the prince. The holy allotment and the sanctuary of the temple will be in the middle of it.

one beka per person, that is, a half shekel,<n id="1" /> according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older,<n id="2" /> 603,550 in all.<n id="3" />