<p class="bodytext">King Solomon then swore an oath by the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;May God judge me severely,<n id="1" /> if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life!<n id="2" />

Shimei said to the king, &#8220;My master the king&#8217;s proposal is acceptable.<n id="1" /> Your servant will do as you say.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.<n id="3" />p>

I<n id="1" /> grant your request,<n id="2" /> and give<n id="3" /> you a wise and discerning mind<n id="4" /> superior to that of anyone who has preceded or will succeed you.<n id="5" />

besides 3,300<n id="1" /> officials who supervised the workers.<n id="2" />

He built an extension all around the walls of the temple&#8217;s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.<n id="1" />

He made a colonnade<n id="1" /> 75 feet<n id="2" /> long and 45 feet<n id="3" /> wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch.<n id="4" />

He also made a throne room, called &#8220;The Hall of Judgment,&#8221; where he made judicial decisions.<n id="1" /> It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet<n id="1" /> long, six feet<n id="2" /> wide, and four-and-a-half feet<n id="3" /> high.

<p class="bodytext">Solomon also made all these items for the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence,<n id="1" />

Listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants&#8217; claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">After Solomon finished building the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned,<n id="1" />

You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.<n id="1" />

These men were also in charge of Solomon&#8217;s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">King Solomon also built ships<n id="1" /> in Ezion Geber, which is located near Elat in the land of Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures<n id="1" /> of gold were used for each shield.

There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom.<n id="1" />p>

Jeroboam was a talented man;<n id="1" /> when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe<n id="2" /> of Joseph.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Solomon&#8217;s reign, including all his accomplishments and his wise decisions, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of Solomon.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Jeroboam&#8217;s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah.<n id="1" /> Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age.<n id="2" />

There were also male cultic prostitutes<n id="1" /> in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> had driven out from before the Israelites.p>