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The Bible In One Year Bible Reading For Day Number - 125 First
Kings -- 10{1}
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of
the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. {2} And she came
to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much
gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with
him of all that was in her heart. {3} And Solomon told her all her
questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
{4} And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the
house that he had built, {5} And the meat of his table, and the sitting
of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his
cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there
was no more spirit in her. {6} And she said to the king, It was a true
report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. {7}
Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and,
behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame
which I heard. {8} Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants,
which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom. {9}
Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne
of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king,
to do judgment and justice. {10} And she gave the king an hundred and
twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there
came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to
king Solomon. {11} And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from
Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
{12} And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the
LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came
no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. {13} And king Solomon
gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that
which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own
country, she and her servants. {14} Now the weight of gold that came
to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold.
{15} Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the
spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
{16} And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred
shekels of gold went to one target. {17} And he made three hundred
shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put
them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. {18} Moreover the king
made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold. {19}
The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there
were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside
the stays. {20} And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on
the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
{21} And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the
vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of
silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. {22} For
the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three
years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes,
and peacocks. {23} So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth
for riches and for wisdom. {24} And all the earth sought to Solomon,
to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. {25} And they brought
every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and
armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. {26} And
Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four
hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities
for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. {27} And the king made
silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore
trees that are in the vale, for abundance. {28} And Solomon had horses
brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen
yarn at a price. {29} And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for
six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for
all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them
out by their means. First
Kings -- 11{1}
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh,
women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; {2}
Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye
shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they
will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
{3} And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines:
and his wives turned away his heart. {4} For it came to pass, when
Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his
heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
{5} For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and
after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. {6} And Solomon did
evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David
his father. {7} Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the
abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the
abomination of the children of Ammon. {8} And likewise did he for all
his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. {9}
And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD
God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, {10} And had commanded
him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept
not that which the LORD commanded. {11} Wherefore the LORD said unto
Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant
and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from
thee, and will give it to thy servant. {12} Notwithstanding in thy
days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the
hand of thy son. {13} Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom;
but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's
sake which I have chosen. {14} And the LORD stirred up an adversary
unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom. {15}
For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host
was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom; {16}
(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every
male in Edom:) {17} That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his
father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
{18} And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men
with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which
gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land. {19}
And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife
the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. {20}
And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in
Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
{21} And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and
that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart,
that I may go to mine own country. {22} Then Pharaoh said unto him,
But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own
country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise. {23}
And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled
from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah: {24} And he gathered men unto
him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went
to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus. {25} And he
was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad
did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria. {26} And Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name
was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king. {27}
And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built
Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father. {28}
And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young
man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house
of Joseph. {29} And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went
out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way;
and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
{30} And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in
twelve pieces: {31} And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces:
for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out
of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee: {32} (But
he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake,
the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:) {33}
Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess
of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children
of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes,
and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father. {34}
Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him
prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because
he kept my commandments and my statutes: {35} But I will take the kingdom
out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes. {36}
And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light
alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
{37} And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy
soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. {38} And it shall be,
if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and
do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David
my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built
for David, and will give Israel unto thee. {39} And I will for this
afflict the seed of David, but not for ever. {40} Solomon sought therefore
to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of
Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon. {41} And the rest
of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written
in the book of the acts of Solomon? {42} And the time that Solomon
reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. {43} And Solomon
slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam
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