Kings III 2:34-35o

³⁴So Banæas son of Jodae went up, and attacked him, and slew him, and buried him in his house in the wilderness.

³⁵And 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:

^35aand the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and largeness of heart, as the sand by the sea-shore.

^35bAnd the wisdom of Solomon abounded exceedingly beyond the wisdom of all the ancients, and beyond all the wise men of Egypt;

^35cand he took the daughter of Pharao, and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the Lord first, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. In seven years he made and finished them.

^35dAnd Solomon had seventy thousand bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the mountain:

^35eand Solomon made the sea, and the bases, and the great lavers, and the pillars, and the fountain of the court, and the brazen sea— and he built the citadel as a defence above it, he made a breach in the wall of the city of David;

^35fthus the daughter of Pharao went up out of the city of David to her house which he built for her. Then he built the citadel;

^35gand Solomon offered up three whole-burnt-offerings in the year, and peace-offerings on the altar which he built to the Lord, and he burnt incense before the Lord, and finished the house.

^35hAnd these are the chief persons who presided over the works of Solomon; three thousand and six hundred masters of the people that wrought the works.

³⁵ⁱAnd he built Assur, and Magdo, and Gazer, and upper Bæthoron, and Ballath:

^35konly after he had built the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about, afterwards he built these cities.

^35lAnd when David was yet living, he charged Solomon, saying, Behold, there is with thee Semei the son of Gera, of the seed of Benjamin out of Chebron:

^35mhe cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the camp;

³⁵ⁿand he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, He shall not be slain with the sword.

^35oBut now do not thou hold him guiltless, for thou art a man of understanding, and thou wilt know what thou shalt do to him, and thou shalt bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.