Emily: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience.
Day 300 and 37.
Then David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, oh
Lord, the God of our ancestor Israel.
May you be praised forever and ever.
Yours, oh Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the
victory, and the majesty.
Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, oh Lord, and this is your kingdom.
We adore you as the one who is over.
All things wealth and honor come from you alone.
For you rule over everything, power and might are in your
hand and at your discretion.
People are made great and given strength.
Oh our God, we thank you and praise your glorious name.
But who am I and who are my people that we could give anything to you.
Everything we have has come from you, and we give you only what you first gave us.
We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land.
As our ancestors were before us, our days on Earth are like a passing shadow.
Gone so soon without a trace.
Oh Lord our God.
Even this material we have gathered to build a temple to honor
your holy name comes from you.
It all belongs to you.
I know, my God, that you examine our hearts and rejoice when
you find in integrity there.
You know, I have done all this with good motives and I have watched your people
offer their gifts willingly and joyously.
Oh Lord, the God of our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, make
your people always want to obey you.
See to it that their love for you never changes.
Give my son Solomon the wholehearted desire to obey all your commands,
laws, and decrees, and to do everything necessary to build this temple for
which I have made these preparations.
Then David said to the whole assembly, give praise to the Lord your God.
And the entire assembly praised the Lord, the God of their ancestors,
and they bowed low and knelt before the Lord and the king.
The next day, they brought 1000 bulls, 1000 rams, and 1000 male
lambs as burnt offerings to the Lord.
They also brought liquid offerings and many other sacrifices
on behalf of all Israel.
They feasted and drank in the Lord's presence with great joy that day.
And again, they crowned David's son Solomon as their new king.
They anointed him before the Lord as their leader, and they anointed zadak as priest.
So Solomon took the throne of the Lord in place of his father.
David.
And he succeeded in everything and all Israel obeyed him, all the officials,
the warriors, and the sons of King David pledged their loyalty to King Solomon.
And the Lord exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel, and he
gave Solomon greater royal splendor than any king in Israel before him.
So David, son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
He reigned over Israel for 40 years, seven of them in Hiin and 33 in Jerusalem.
He died at a Riped age having enjoyed long life wealth and honor.
Then his son Solomon, ruled in his place.
All the events of King David's reign from beginning to end are written
in the record of Samuel the seer, the record of Nathan the prophet.
And the record of God, the Sr.
These accounts include the mighty deeds of his reign and everything
that happened to him and to Israel and to all the surrounding kingdoms.
Solomon son of David, took firm control of his kingdom for the Lord.
His God was with him and made him very powerful.
Solomon called together all the leaders of Israel, the generals and
captains of the army, the judges, and all the political and clan leaders.
Then he led the entire assembly to the place of worship in Gibeon for
God's Tabernacle was located there.
This was the tabernacle that Moses, the Lord's servant had made in the wilderness.
David had already moved the Ark of God from Cath Jiram to the tent.
He had prepared for it in Jerusalem, but the bronze altar made by Beel son
of Yuri and grandson of her was there at Gibeon in front of the tabernacle of the
Lord, so Solomon and the people gathered in front of it to consult the Lord.
There in front of the tabernacle.
Solomon went up to the bronze altar in the Lord's presence and
sacrificed 1000 burnt offerings on it.
That night, God appeared to Solomon and said, what do you want?
Ask, and I will give it to you.
Solomon replied to God.
You showed great and faithful love to David, my father, and now you
have made me a king in his place.
Oh Lord God, please continue to keep your promise to David, my father, for
you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Give me the wisdom and knowledge to lead them properly for who
could possibly govern this.
Great people of yours.
God said to Solomon, because your greatest desire is to help your people.
You did not ask for wealth, riches, fame, or even the death of your
enemies or a long life, but rather you asked for wisdom and knowledge
to properly govern my people.
I will certainly give you the wisdom and knowledge you requested, but I will
also give you wealth, riches, and fame such as no other king has had before
you or will ever have in the future.
Then Solomon returned to Jerusalem from the Tabernacle at the place of worship
in Gibeon, and he reigned over Israel.
Solomon built up a huge force of chariots and horses.
He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses.
He stationed some of them in the chariot cities and some near him in Jerusalem.
The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone.
And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore fig trees
that grow in the foothills of Judah.
Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Sia.
The king's traders acquired them from Sia at the standard price.
At that time, chariots from Egypt could be purchased for 600 pieces of silver
and horses for 150 pieces of silver.
They were then exported to the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.
Solomon decided to build a temple to honor the name of the Lord and
also a royal palace for himself.
He enlisted a force of 70,000 laborers, 80,000 men to quarry stone in the
hill country, and 3,600 for Solomon.
Also sent this message to King Hira, Matt Tire.
Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when
he was building his palace.
I am about to build a temple to honor the name of the Lord my God.
It will be a place set apart to burn fragrant incense before him to display
the special sacrificial bread and to sacrifice burnt offerings each morning
and evening on the Sabbaths at New Moon celebrations and at the other
appointed festivals of the Lord Our God.
He has commanded Israel to do these things forever.
This must be a magnificent temple because our God is greater than
all other gods, but who can really build him a worthy home?
Not even the highest heavens can contain him.
So who am I to consider building a temple for him except as a
place to burn sacrifices to him?
So send me a master craftsman who can work with gold, silver,
bronze, and iron, as well as with purple, scarlet and blue cloth.
He must be a skilled engraver who can work with the craftsman of Judah and Jerusalem
who were selected by my father David.
Also send me Cedar Cyprus and red sandalwood logs from Lebanon.
For I know that your men are without equal at cutting timber in Lebanon.
I will send my men to help them.
An immense amount of timber will be needed for the temple I am going to
build will be very large and magnificent in payment for your woodcutters.
I will send 100,000 bushels of crushed wheat, 100,000 bushels of
barley, 110,000 gallons of wine, and 110,000 gallons of olive oil.
King Hiram sent this letter of reply to Solomon.
It is because the Lord loves his people, that he has made you their king.
Praise the Lord, the God of Israel who made the heavens and the earth.
He has given King David A.
Wise son, gifted with skill and understanding who will build a temple for
the Lord and a royal palace for himself.
I am sending you a master craftsman named Hirum Abai, who is extremely talented.
His mother is from the tribe of Dan in Israel, and his father is from tire.
He is skillful at making things from gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and
he also works with stone and wood.
He can work with purple, blue, and scarlet cloth and fine linen.
He is also an engraver and can follow any design given to him.
He will work with your craftsmen and those appointed by my Lord David, your father
send along the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine that my Lord has mentioned.
We will cut whatever timber you need from the Lebanon mountains and will
float the logs in rafts down the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to Japa.
From there, you can transport the logs up to Jerusalem.
Solomon took a census of all foreigners in the land of Israel, like the census his
father had taken, and he counted 153,600.
He assigned 70,000 of them as common laborers, 80,000 as quarry workers in
the hill country, and 3,600 as foreman.
So Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem
on Mount Moriah where the Lord had appeared to David, his father.
The temple was built on the threshing floor of Irana, the Jbu site.
The site that David had selected, the construction began in mid-spring during
the fourth year of Solomon's reign.
These are the dimensions Solomon used for the foundation of the temple of God.
Using the old standard of measurement, it was 90 feet long and 30 feet wide.
The entry room at the front of the temple was 30 feet wide,
running across the entire width of the temple and 30 feet high.
He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
He paneled the main room of the temple with Cyprus wood, overlaid it with
fine gold, and decorated it with carvings of palm trees and chains.
He decorated the walls of the temple with beautiful jewels and
with gold from the land of Parve.
He overlaid the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors throughout the
temple with gold, and he carved figures of cherubim on the walls.
He made the most holy place, 30 feet wide, corresponding to the width
of the temple, and 30 feet deep.
He overlaid its interior with 23 tons of fine gold.
The gold nails that were used weighed 20 ounces each.
He also overlaid the walls of the upper rooms with gold.
He made two figures shaped like cherubim, overlaid them with gold and
placed them in the most holy place.
The total wingspan of the two cherubims standing side by side was 30 feet.
One wing of the first figure was seven and a half feet long,
and it touched the temple wall.
The other wing also seven and a half feet long touched one of the wings
of the second figure in the same way.
The second figure had one wing seven and a half feet long
that touched the opposite wall.
The other wing also seven and a half feet long touched the wing of the first figure.
So the wingspan of the two cherubim side by side was 30 feet.
They stood on their feet and faced out toward the main room of the temple.
Across the entrance of the most holy place, he hung a curtain made
of fine linen, decorated with blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and
embroidered with figures of cherubim.
For the front of the temple, he made two pillars that were 27 feet tall,
each topped by a capital extending upward, another seven and a half feet.
He made a network of interwoven chains and used them to decorate
the tops of the pillars.
He also made 100 decorative pomegranates and attached them to the chains.
Then he set up the two pillars at the entrance of the temple,
one to the south of the entrance and the other to the north.
He named the one on the south jenkin and the one on the north Boaz
Solomon also made a bronze altar.
30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.
Then he cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim called the sea.
It was seven and a half feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.
It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of figures that resembled oxen.
There were about six oxen per foot all the way around, and they
were cast as part of the basin.
The sea was placed on a base of 12 bronze oxen all facing outward,
three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced
east, and the sea rested on them.
The, the walls of the sea were about three inches thick, and its rim flared out like
a cup and resembled a water lily blossom.
It could hold about 16,500 gallons of water.
He also made 10 smaller basins for washing the utensils for the burnt offerings.
He set five on the south side and five on the north, but the priests
washed themselves in the sea.
He then cast 10 gold lamp stands according to the specifications that had been
given, and he put them in the temple.
Five were placed against the south wall, and five were
placed against the North wall.
He also built 10 tables and placed them in the temple, five along the south
wall and five along the north wall.
Then he molded 100 gold basins.
He then built a courtyard for the priests and also the large outer courtyard.
He made doors for the courtyard entrances and overlaid them with bronze.
The great bronze basin called the sea was placed near the
southeast corner of the temple.
Hurum Abai also made the necessary wash basins, shovels and bowls.
So at last, Hurum Abai completed everything King Solomon had assigned
him to make for the Temple of God.
The two pillars, the two bowls shaped capitals on top of the pillars,
the two networks of interwoven chains that decorated the capitals,
the 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitols.
Two rows of pomegranates for each of the chain networks that decorated
the capitals on top of the pillars, the water carts holding the basins,
the sea, and the 12 oxen under it.
The ash buckets, the shovels, the meat hooks, and all the related articles.
Hurum Abe made all these things of burnished bronze for the temple of the
Lord, just as King Solomon had directed.
The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Zeth and Zhan.
Solomon used such great quantities of bronze that its
weight could not be determined.
Solomon also made all the furnishings for the temple of God, the gold altar.
The tables for the bread of the presents, the lamp stands, and their
lamps of solid gold to burn in front of the most holy place as prescribed.
The flower, decorations, lamps, and tongs, all of the purest gold, the
lamp, snuffers bowls, ladles and incense, burners, all of solid gold.
The doors for the entrances to the most holy place, and the main room
of the temple overlaid with gold.
So Solomon finished all his work on the temple of the Lord.
Then he brought all the gifts.
His father David had dedicated.
The silver, the gold, and the various articles, and he stored them in the
treasuries of the temple of God.