Quotes About History

For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ëWhy has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?í

Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,

“What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram, and he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.

This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomonís wife.

So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,

Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,

As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—

They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.

Solomonís horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.

Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.

Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,

and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

As for the rest of the acts of Solomon—all that he did, as well as his wisdom—are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?

Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.

So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.

One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.