Septuagint (Greek Old Testament)

And Bersabee went in to king Solomon to speak to him concerning Adonias; and the king rose up to meet her, and kissed her, and sat on the throne, and a throne was set for the mother of the king, and she sat on his right hand.

And she said to him, I ask of thee one little request; turn not away my face from thee. And the king said to her, Ask, my mother, and I will not reject thee.

And she said, Let, I pray thee, Abisag the Somanite be given to Adonias thy brother to wife.

And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why hast thou asked Abisag for Adonias? ask for him the kingdom also; for he [is] my elder brother, and he has for his companion Abiathar the priest, and Joab the son of Saruia the commander-in-chief.

And king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more also, [if it be not] that Adonias has spoken this word against his own life.

And now [as] the Lord lives who has established me, and set me on the throne of my father David, and he has made me a house, as the Lord spoke, this day shall Adonias be put to death.

So king Solomon sent by the hand of Banæas the son of Jodae, and he slew him, and Adonias died in that day.

And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Depart thou quickly to Anathoth to thy farm, for thou art worthy of death this day; but I will not slay thee, because thou hast borne the ark of the covenant of the Lord before my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all things wherein my father was afflicted.

And Solomon removed Abiathar from being a priest of the Lord, that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he spoke concerning the house of Heli in Selom.

And the report came to Joab son of Saruia; for Joab had turned after Adonias, and he went not after Solomon: and Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold of the horns of the altar.

And it was told Solomon, saying, Joab has fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and lo! he has hold of the horns of the altar. And king Solomon sent to Joab, saying, What ails thee, that thou hast fled to the altar? and Joab said, Because I was afraid of thee, and fled for refuge to the Lord. And Solomon sent Banæas son of Jodae, saying, Go and slay him, and bury him.

And Banæas son of Jodae came to Joab to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him, Thus says the king, Come forth. And Joab said, I will not come forth, for I will die here. And Banæas son of Jodae returned and spoke to the king, saying, Thus has Joab spoken, and thus has he answered me.

And the king said to him, Go, and do to him as he has spoken, and kill him: and thou shalt bury him, and thou shalt remove this day the blood which he shed without cause, from me and from the house of my father.

And the Lord has returned upon his own head the blood of his unrighteousness, inasmuch as he attacked two men more righteous and better than himself, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew not of their blood, [even] Abenner the son of Ner the commander-in-chief of Israel, and Amessa the son of Jether the commander-in-chief of Juda.

And their blood is returned upon his head, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but to David, and his seed, and his house, and his throne, may there be peace for ever from the Lord.

So Banæas son of Jodae went up, and attacked him, and slew him, and buried him in his house in the wilderness.

And the king appointed Banæas son of Jodae in his place over the host; and the kingdom was established in Jerusalem; and [as for] Sadoc the priest, the king appointed him to be high priest in the room of Abiathar. And Solomon son of David reigned over Israel and Juda in Jerusalem:

And the king called Semei, and said to him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and thou shalt not go out thence any whither.

And it shall come to pass in the day that thou shalt go forth and cross over the brook Kedron, know assuredly that thou shalt certainly die: thy blood shall be upon thine head. And the king caused him to swear in that day.

And Semei said to the king, Good [is] the word that thou hast spoken, my lord O king: thus will thy servant do. And Semei dwelt in Jerusalem three years.

And it came to pass after the three years, that two servants of Semei ran away to Anchus son of Maacha king of Geth: and it was told Semei, saying, Behold, thy servants [are] in Geth.

And Semei rose up, and saddled his ass, and went to Geth to Anchus to seek out his servants: and Semei went, and brought his servants out of Geth.

And it was told Solomon, saying, Semei is gone out of Jerusalem to Geth, and has brought back his servants.

And the king sent and called Semei, and said to him, Did I not adjure thee by the Lord, and testify to thee, saying, In whatsoever day thou shalt go out of Jerusalem, and go to the right or left, know certainly that thou shalt assuredly die?

And why hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment which I commanded thee?

And the king said to Semei, Thou knowest all thy mischief which thy heart knows, which thou didst to David my father: and the Lord has recompensed thy mischief on thine [own] head.

And king Solomon [is] blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.

And Solomon commanded Banæas the son of Jodae, and he went forth and slew him.

Nevertheless the people burnt incense on the high places, because a house had not yet been built to the Lord.

And Solomon loved the Lord, [so as] to walk in the ordinances of David his father; only he sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

And he arose and went to Gabaon to sacrifice there, for that [was] the highest place, and great: Solomon offered a whole-burnt-offering of a thousand [victims] on the altar in Gabaon.

And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and the Lord said to Solomon, Ask some petition for thyself.

And Solomon said, Thou hast dealt very mercifully with thy servant David my father according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee, and thou hast kept for him this great mercy, to set his son upon his throne, as [it is] this day.

And now, O Lord my God, thou hast appointed thy servant in the room of David my father; and I am a little child, and know not my going out and my coming in.

But thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people, whom thou hast chosen, a great people, which cannot be numbered.

Thou shalt give therefore to thy servant a heart to hear and to judge thy people justly, and to discern between good and evil: for who will be able to judge this thy great people?

And it was pleasing before the Lord, that Solomon asked this thing.

And the Lord said to him, Because thou hast asked this thing of me, and hast not asked for thyself long life, and hast not asked wealth, nor hast asked the lives of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding to hear judgment;

behold, I have done according to thy word: behold, I have given thee an understanding and wise heart: there has not been [any one] like thee before thee, and after thee there shall not arise one like thee.

And I have given thee what thou hast not asked, wealth and glory, so that there has not been any one like thee among kings.

And if thou wilt walk in my way, to keep my commandments and my ordinances, as David thy father walked, then will I multiply thy days.

And Solomon awoke, and, behold, [it was] a dream: and he arose and came to Jerusalem, and stood before the altar that was in front of the ark of the covenant of the Lord in Sion: and he offered whole-burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings, and made a great banquet for himself and all his servants.

Then there appeared two harlots before the king, and they stood before him.

And the one woman said, Hear me, [my] lord; I and this woman dwelt in one house, and we were delivered in the house.

And it came to pass on the third day after I was delivered, this woman also was delivered: and we [were] together; and there was no one with us besides our two selves in the house.

And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

And she arose in the middle of the night, and took my son from my arms, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

And I arose in the morning to suckle my son, and he was dead: and, behold, I considered him in the morning, and, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.

And the other woman said, No, but the living [is] my son, and the dead [is] thy son. So they spoke before the king.

And the king said to them, Thou sayest, This [is] my son, [even] the living [one], and this woman's son [is] the dead one: and thou sayest, No, but the living [is] my son, and the dead [is] thy son.

And the king said, Fetch a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

And the king said, Divide the live child, the suckling, in two; and give half of it to one, and half of it to the other.

And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her bowels yearned over her son) and she said, I pray thee, [my] lord, give her the child, and in nowise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide [it].

Then the king answered and said, Give the child to her that said, ‘Give it to her, and by no means slay it:’ she [is] its mother.

And all Israel heard this judgment which the king judged, and they feared before the king; because they saw that the wisdom of God [was] in him, to execute judgment.

And king Solomon reigned over Israel.

And these [are] the princes which he had; Azarias son of Sadoc.

Eliaph, and Achia son of Seba, scribes; and Josaphat son of Achilud, recorder.

And Banæas son of Jodae over the host; and Sadoc and Abiathar [were] priests.

And Ornia the son of Nathan [was] over the officers; and Zabuth son of Nathan [was] the king's friend.

And Achisar was steward, and Eliac the [chief] steward; and Eliab the son of Saph [was] over the family: and Adoniram the son of Audon over the tribute.

And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, to provide for the king and his household; each one's turn came to supply for a month in the year.

And these [were] their names: Been the son of Or in the mount of Ephraim, one.

The son of Dacar, in Makes, and in Salabin, and Bæthsamys, and Elon as far as Bethanan, one.

The son of Esdi in Araboth; his [was] Socho, and all the land of Opher.

All Nephthador [belonged to] the son of Aminadab, Tephath daughter of Solomon was his wife, one.

Bana son of Achiluth [had] Ithaanach, and Mageddo, and [his was] the whole house of San which was by Sesathan below Esrae, and from Bethsan as far as Sabelmaula, as far as Maëber Lucam, one.

The son of Naber in Raboth Galaad, to him [fell] the lot of Ergab in Basan, sixty great cities with walls, and brazen bars, one.

Achinadab son of Saddo, [had] Maanaim.

Achimaas [was] in Nephthalim, and he took Basemmath daughter of Solomon to wife, one.

Baana son of Chusi, in Aser and in Baaloth, one,

Semei son of Ela, in Benjamin.

Gaber son of Adai in the land of Gad, [the land] of Seon king of Esebon, and of Og king of Basan, and one officer in the land of Juda.

Josaphat son of Phuasud [was] in Issachar.

And thus the officers provided king Solomon: and [they execute] every one in his month all the orders for the table of the king, they omit nothing. And they carried the barley and the straw for the horses and the chariots to the place where the king might be, each according to his charge.

And these [were] the requisite supplies for Solomon: in one day thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of fine pounded meal,

and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does.

For he had dominion on this side the river, and he was at peace on all sides round about.

And the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and enlargement of heart, as the sand on the seashore.

And Solomon abounded greatly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt.

And he was wiser than all [other] men: and he was wiser than Gæthan the Zarite, and [than] Ænan, and [than] Chalcad and Darala the sons of Mal.

And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were five thousand.

And he spoke of trees, from the cedar in Libanus even to the hyssop which comes out through the wall: he spoke also of cattle, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fishes.

And all the nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and [ambassadors] from all the kings of the earth, as many as heard of his wisdom.

And Chiram king of Tyre sent his servants to anoint Solomon in the room of David his father, because Chiram always loved David.

And Solomon sent to Chiram, saying,

Thou knewest my father David, that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord my God because of the wars that compassed him about, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

And now the Lord my God has given me rest round about; there is no one plotting against [me], and there is no evil trespass [against me].

And, behold, I intend to build a house to the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord God spoke to my father David, saying, Thy son whom I will set on thy throne in thy place, he shall build a house to my name.

And now command, and let [men] cut wood for me out of Libanus: and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy servants, and I will give thee the wages of thy service, according to all that thou shalt say, because thou knowest that we have no one skilled in cutting timber like the Sidonians.

And it came to pass, as soon as Chiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed [be] God to-day, who has given to David a wise son over this numerous people.

And he sent to Solomon, saying, I have listened concerning all that thou hast sent to me for: I will do all thy will: [as for] timber of cedar and fir,

my servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: I will form them [into] rafts, [and bring them] to the place which thou shalt send to me [about]; and I will land them there, and thou shalt take [them] up: and thou shalt do my will, in giving bread to my household.

So Chiram gave to Solomon cedars, and fir trees, and all his desire.

And Solomon gave to Chiram twenty thousand measures of wheat as food for his house, and twenty thousand baths of beaten oil thus Solomon gave to Chiram yearly.

And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon as he promised him; and there was peace between Chiram and Solomon, and they made a covenant between them.

And the king raised a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men.

And he sent them to Libanus, ten thousand taking turn every month: they were a month in Libanus and two months at home: and Adoniram [was] over the levy.

And Solomon had seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain;

besides the rulers that were appointed over the works of Solomon, [there were] three thousand six hundred masters who wrought in the works.