Lexicon :: Strong's H8010 - šᵊlōmô

Each of those deputies for a month in turn provided food for King Solomon and for everyone who came to King Solomon’s table. They neglected nothing.

God gave Solomon wisdom, very great insight, and understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore.

Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

Emissaries of all peoples, sent by every king on earth who had heard of his wisdom, came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom.

Solomon sent this message to Hiram:

When Hiram heard Solomon’s words, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD today! He has given David a wise son to be over this great people! ”

Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying, “I have heard your message; I will do everything you want regarding the cedar and cypress timber.

So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,

and Solomon provided Hiram with one hundred twenty thousand bushels[fn] of wheat as food for his household and one hundred twenty thousand gallons[fn] of oil from crushed olives. Solomon did this for Hiram year after year.

The LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.

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

Solomon had seventy thousand porters and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,

not including his thirty-three hundred[fn] deputies in charge of the work. They supervised the people doing the work.

So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the temple’s construction.

The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was ninety feet[fn] long, thirty feet[fn] wide, and forty-five feet[fn] high.

The word of the LORD came to Solomon:

When Solomon finished building the temple,[fn]

Next, Solomon overlaid the interior of the temple with pure gold, and he hung[fn] gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary and overlaid it with gold.

Solomon’s own palace where he would live, in the other courtyard behind the hall, was of similar construction. And he made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, his wife.[fn]

King Solomon had Hiram[fn] brought from Tyre.

He was a widow’s son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a bronze craftsman. Hiram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge to do every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.

Then Hiram made the basins, the shovels, and the sprinkling basins.

So Hiram finished all the work that he was doing for King Solomon on the LORD’s temple:

and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling basins. All the utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon at the LORD’s temple were made of burnished bronze.

Solomon left all the utensils unweighed because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.

Solomon also made all the equipment in the LORD’s temple: the gold altar; the gold table that the Bread of the Presence was placed on;

So all the work King Solomon did in the LORD’s temple was completed. Then Solomon brought in the consecrated things of his father David ​— ​the silver, the gold, and the utensils ​— ​and put them in the treasuries of the LORD’s temple.

So all the men of Israel were assembled in the presence of King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month,[fn] at the festival.

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.

Then Solomon said:

The LORD said that he would dwell in total darkness.

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

When Solomon finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up from kneeling before the altar of the LORD, with his hands spread out toward heaven,

Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the LORD: twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep and goats. In this manner the king and all the Israelites dedicated the LORD’s temple.

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]

the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the two houses, the LORD’s temple and the royal palace ​— ​

King Hiram of Tyre having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every wish ​— ​King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.

This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon had imposed to build the LORD’s temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He then burned it, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,

all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, the chariot cities, the cavalry cities, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or anywhere else in the land of his dominion.

their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely ​— ​Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is still this way today.

But Solomon did not consign the Israelites to slavery; they were soldiers, his servants, his commanders, his captains, and commanders of his chariots and his cavalry.

These were the deputies who were over Solomon’s work: 550 who supervised the people doing the work.