Discovery Box| (0.46) | 2Ch 3:1 |
| Solomon began building the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem 1 on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan 2 the Jebusite. |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 4:11 |
| Huram Abi 1 made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 2 |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 5:2 |
| Then Solomon convened Israel’s elders – all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families – in Jerusalem, 1 so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David 2 (that is, Zion). 3 |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 6:13 |
| Solomon had made a bronze platform and had placed it in the middle of the enclosure. It was seven and one-half feet 1 long, seven and one-half feet 2 wide, and four and one-half feet 3 high. He stood on it and then got down on his knees in front of the entire assembly of Israel. He spread out his hands toward the sky, |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 7:5 |
| King Solomon sacrificed 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the people dedicated God’s temple. |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 7:8 |
| At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival for seven days. This great assembly included people from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt in the south. 1 |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 7:10 |
| On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon 1 sent the people home. They left 2 happy and contented 3 because of the good the Lord had done for David, Solomon, and his people Israel. |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 8:11 |
| Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David 1 to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.” |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 9:9 |
| She gave the king 120 talents 1 of gold and a very large quantity of spices and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched. 2 |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 9:12 |
| King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, more than what she had brought him. 1 Then she left and returned 2 to her homeland with her attendants. |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 9:29 |
| The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded 1 in the Annals of Nathan the Prophet, the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and the Vision of Iddo the Seer pertaining to Jeroboam son of Nebat. |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 10:6 |
| King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 1 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 2 “How do you advise me to answer these people?” |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 12:9 |
| King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made. |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 13:7 |
| Lawless good-for-nothing men 1 gathered around him and conspired 2 against Rehoboam son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was an inexperienced young man 3 and could not resist them. |
| (0.46) | 2Ch 33:7 |
| He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. 1 |
| (0.46) | Neh 11:3 |
| These are the provincial leaders 1 who settled in Jerusalem. (While other Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the temple attendants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon settled in the cities of Judah, each on his own property in their cities, |
| (0.46) | Neh 13:26 |
| Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made 1 him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin! |
| (0.46) | Psa 127:1 |
| A song of ascents, 2 by Solomon. If the Lord does not build a house, 3 then those who build it work in vain. If the Lord does not guard a city, 4 then the watchman stands guard in vain. |
| (0.46) | Jer 52:20 |
| The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the Lord’s temple (including the two pillars, the large bronze basin called “The Sea,” the twelve bronze bulls under “The Sea,” and the movable stands 1 ) was too heavy to be weighed. |
| (0.40) | 1Ki 3:6 |
| Solomon replied, “You demonstrated 1 great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served 2 you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. 3 You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. 4 |
