1 Kings 3:1

At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, Yahweh’s house and the king’s house

But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.

Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.

David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.

His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.

This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city.

At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built Yahweh’s house and his own house,

Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in his father David’s city: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.

He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”

They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.

Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”

Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he had Ahab’s daughter as his wife. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.

King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.” So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.

As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he married Ahab’s daughter. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

“They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.

It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its pasture lands, and Gezer with its pasture lands,

The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city.

David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.

Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city to the house that he had built for her; for he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where Yahweh’s ark has come are holy.”

So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah.

Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he allied himself with Ahab.

He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.

Thus they returned us answer, saying, “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. Vows shall be performed to you.

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

“A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.

Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people;

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.