Lexicon :: Strong's H3478 - yiśrā'ēl

They searched for a beautiful girl throughout the territory of Israel; they found Abishag the Shunammite[fn] and brought her to the king.

“Now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you to tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

“just as I swore to you by the LORD God of Israel: Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne in my place, that is exactly what I will do this very day.”

“There, the priest Zadok and the prophet Nathan are to anoint him as king over Israel. You are to blow the ram’s horn and say, ‘Long live King Solomon! ’

“And the king went on to say this: ‘Blessed be the LORD God of Israel! Today he has provided one to sit on my throne, and I am a witness.’ ”[fn]

“and so that the LORD will fulfill his promise that he made to me: ‘If your sons take care to walk faithfully before me with all their heart and all their soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’

The length of time David reigned over Israel was forty years: he reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

“You know the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected me to be king, but then the kingship was turned over to my brother, for the LORD gave it to him.

“The LORD will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

All Israel heard about the judgment the king had given, and they stood in awe of the king because they saw that God’s wisdom was in him to carry out justice.

King Solomon reigned over all Israel,

Solomon had twelve deputies for all Israel. They provided food for the king and his household; each one made provision for one month out of the year.

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing.

Throughout Solomon’s reign, Judah and Israel lived in safety from Dan to Beer-sheba, each person under his own vine and his own fig tree.

Then King Solomon drafted forced laborers from all Israel; the labor force numbered thirty thousand men.

Solomon began to build the temple for the LORD in the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month.[fn]

“I will dwell among the Israelites and not abandon my people Israel.”

At that time Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the tribal heads and the ancestral leaders of the Israelites before him at Jerusalem in order to bring the ark of the LORD’s covenant from the city of David, that is Zion.

King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel, who had gathered around him and were with him in front of the ark, were sacrificing sheep, goats, and cattle that could not be counted or numbered, because there were so many.

Nothing was in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had put there at Horeb,[fn] where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt.

The king turned around and blessed the entire congregation of Israel while they were standing.

The LORD has fulfilled what he promised.

I have taken the place of my father David,

and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised.

I have built the temple for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the entire congregation of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

Therefore, LORD God of Israel,

keep what you promised

to your servant, my father David:

You will never fail to have a man

to sit before me on the throne of Israel,

if only your sons take care to walk before me

as you have walked before me.

Hear the petition of your servant

and your people Israel,

which they pray toward this place.

May you hear in your dwelling place in heaven.

May you hear and forgive.

When your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,

because they have sinned against you,

and they return to you and praise your name,

and they pray and plead with you

for mercy in this temple,

may you hear in heaven

and forgive the sin of your servants

and your people Israel,

so that you may teach them to walk on the good way.

May you send rain on your land

that you gave your people for an inheritance.

every prayer or petition

that any person or that all your people Israel may have —

they each know their own affliction[fn] —

as they spread out their hands toward this temple,

Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel

but has come from a distant land

because of your name —

may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place,

and do according to all the foreigner asks.

Then all peoples of earth will know your name,

to fear you as your people Israel do

and to know that this temple I have built

bears your name.

May your eyes be open to your servant’s petition

and to the petition of your people Israel,

listening to them whenever they call to you.

and he stood and blessed the whole congregation of Israel with a loud voice:

“May my words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near the LORD our God day and night. May he uphold his servant’s cause and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires.

The king and all Israel with him were offering sacrifices in the LORD’s presence.

Solomon and all Israel with him ​— ​a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath[fn] to the Brook of Egypt ​— ​observed the festival at that time in the presence of the LORD our God, seven days, and seven more days ​— ​fourteen days.[fn]

I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject[fn] the temple I have sanctified for my name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.