Quotes About History

The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer the Anathothite, a Benjamite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

over Judah was Elihu, one of Davidís brothers; over Issachar was Omri son of Michael;

over the Ephraimites was Hoshea son of Azaziah; over one of the half-tribes of Manasseh was Joel son of Pedaiah;

and over Dan was Azarel son of Jeroham. These were the leaders of the tribes of Israel.

David son of Jesse was king over all Israel.

The length of Davidís reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are indeed written in the Chronicles of Samuel the Seer, the Chronicles of Nathan the Prophet, and the Chronicles of Gad the Seer,

together with all the details of his reign, his might, and the circumstances that came upon him and Israel and all the kingdoms of the lands.

Now David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.

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

Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all.

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.

In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.

The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah.

And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with the children of Israel.”

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

Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.

Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,

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