Monthly Archives: August 2017

1 King David grew old, the years took their toll, and he couldn’t get warm even when they covered him with bedclothes. 2 His servants said to him, “Let us try to find a young virgin for my lord the king. She can wait on the king and be a companion for him, and she […]

1 The time came near for David to die; so he commissioned Shlomo his son as follows: 2 “I am going the way of all the earth. Therefore, be strong; show yourself a man. 3 Observe the charge ofAdonaiyour God to go in his ways and keep his regulations,mitzvot, rulings and instructions in accordance with […]

1 Shlomo formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her into the City of David, [where she lived] until he had finished building his own palace, the house ofAdonaiand the wall around Yerushalayim. 2 The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places, because no house had […]

1 King Shlomo was king over all Isra’el, 2 and these were his high officials: ‘Azaryah the son of Tzadok, thecohen; 3 Elichoref and Achiyah the sons of Shisha, secretaries; Y’hoshafat the son of Achilud, secretary of state; 4 B’nayah the son of Y’hoyada, commander of the army; Tzadok and Evyatar,cohanim; 5 ‘Azaryah the son […]

1 Shlomo ruled over all the kingdoms from the [Euphrates] River through the land of the P’lishtim to the border of Egypt; they paid tribute and served Shlomo as long as he lived. 2 Shlomo’s provisions for one day consisted of 150 bushels of fine flour, 310 bushels of meal, 3 ten fattened oxen, twenty […]

1 It was in the 480th year after the people of Isra’el had left the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Shlomo’s reign over Isra’el, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house ofAdonai. 2 The house which King Shlomo built forAdonaiwas 105 feet […]

1 Shlomo built a palace for himself, taking thirteen years to finish it. 2 For he built the House of the L’vanon Forest 175 feet long, eighty-seven-and-a-half feet wide and fifty-two-and-a-half feet high, on four rows of cedar posts, with cedar beams on the posts. 3 It had a roof made of cedar and supported […]

1 Then Shlomo assembled all the leaders of Isra’el, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the paternal clans of the people of Isra’el, to King Shlomo in Yerushalayim, to bring the ark for the covenant ofAdonaiout of the City of David, also known as Tziyon. 2 All the men of Isra’el […]

1 After Shlomo had finished building the house ofAdonai, the royal palace and everything else he wanted to build for himself, 2 Adonaiappeared to Shlomo a second time, as he had appeared to him in Giv‘on. 3 Adonaisaid to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before me: I am […]

1 When the queen of Sh’va heard what was being said about Shlomo because of the name ofAdonai, she came to test him with difficult questions. 2 She arrived in Yerushalayim accompanied by a very great retinue, including camels bearing spices and gold in great abundance, and precious stones. When she appeared before Shlomo she […]