Solomon

All 74 verses in 2 Chronicles, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 1:1

  Now Solomon son of David established himself securely over his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and highly exalted him.

• 2 Chronicles 1:2

  Then Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every leader in all Israel—the heads of the families.

• 2 Chronicles 1:3

  And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

• 2 Chronicles 1:5

  But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, was in Gibeon before the tabernacle of the LORD. So Solomon and the assembly inquired of Him there.

• 2 Chronicles 1:6

  Solomon offered sacrifices there before the LORD on the bronze altar in the Tent of Meeting, where he offered a thousand burnt offerings.

• 2 Chronicles 1:7

  That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”

• 2 Chronicles 1:8

  Solomon replied to God: “You have shown much loving devotion to my father David, and You have made me king in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 1:11

  God said to Solomon, “Since this was in your heart instead of requesting riches or wealth or glory for yourself or death for your enemies—and since you have not even requested long life but have asked for wisdom and knowledge to govern My people over whom I have made you king—

• 2 Chronicles 1:13

  So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 1:14

  Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 1:16

  Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.

• 2 Chronicles 2:1

  Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.

• 2 Chronicles 2:2

  So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

• 2 Chronicles 2:3

  Then Solomon sent word to Hiram king of Tyre: “Do for me as you did for my father David when you sent him cedars to build himself a house to live in.

• 2 Chronicles 2:11

  Then Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter in reply to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has set you over them as king.”

• 2 Chronicles 2:17

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 3:1

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 3:3

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

• 2 Chronicles 4:11

  Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:

• 2 Chronicles 4:16

  and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles. All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze.

• 2 Chronicles 4:18

  Solomon made all these articles in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

• 2 Chronicles 4:19

  Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: the golden altar; the tables on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;

• 2 Chronicles 5:1

  So all the work that Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and all the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of God.

• 2 Chronicles 5:2

  At that time Solomon assembled in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.

• 2 Chronicles 5:6

  There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

• 2 Chronicles 6:1

  Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud;

• 2 Chronicles 6:13

  Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

• 2 Chronicles 7:1

  When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

• 2 Chronicles 7:5

  And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

• 2 Chronicles 7:7

  Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not contain all these offerings.

• 2 Chronicles 7:8

  So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast for seven days.

• 2 Chronicles 7:10

  On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 7:11

  When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,

• 2 Chronicles 7:12

  the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

• 2 Chronicles 8:1

  Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,

• 2 Chronicles 8:2

  Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there.

• 2 Chronicles 8:3

  Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

• 2 Chronicles 8:6

  as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.

• 2 Chronicles 8:8

  their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to destroy—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.

• 2 Chronicles 8:9

  But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slave labor, because they were his men of war, his officers and captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.

• 2 Chronicles 8:10

  They were also the chief officers for King Solomon: 250 supervisors.

• 2 Chronicles 8:11

  Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”

• 2 Chronicles 8:12

  At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.

• 2 Chronicles 8:16

  Thus all the work of Solomon was carried out, from the day the foundation was laid for the house of the LORD until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

• 2 Chronicles 8:17

  Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of Edom.

• 2 Chronicles 8:18

  So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 9:1

  Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon, she came to test him with difficult questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. So she came to Solomon and spoke with him about all that was on her mind.

• 2 Chronicles 9:2

  And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for him to explain.

• 2 Chronicles 9:3

  When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,

• 2 Chronicles 9:9

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 9:10

  (The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.

• 2 Chronicles 9:12

  King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired—whatever she asked—far more than she had brought the king. Then she left and returned to her own country, along with her servants.

• 2 Chronicles 9:13

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

• 2 Chronicles 9:14

  not including the revenue from the merchants and traders. And all the Arabian kings and governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 9:15

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

• 2 Chronicles 9:20

  All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 9:22

  So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

• 2 Chronicles 9:23

  All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.

• 2 Chronicles 9:25

  Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 9:28

  Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from all the lands.

• 2 Chronicles 9:29

  As for the rest of the acts of Solomon, from beginning to end, are they not written in the Records of Nathan the Prophet, in the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the Visions of Iddo the Seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?

• 2 Chronicles 9:30

  Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

• 2 Chronicles 9:31

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

• 2 Chronicles 10:2

  When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 10:6

  Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.

• 2 Chronicles 11:3

  “Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin

• 2 Chronicles 11:17

  So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 12:9

  So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.

• 2 Chronicles 13:6

  Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master.

• 2 Chronicles 13:7

  Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.

• 2 Chronicles 30:26

  So there was great rejoicing in Jerusalem, for nothing like this had happened there since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 33:7

  Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

• 2 Chronicles 35:3

  To the Levites who taught all Israel and were holy to the LORD, Josiah said: “Put the holy ark in the temple built by Solomon son of David king of Israel. It is not to be carried around on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and His people Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 35:4

  Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions, according to the instructions written by David king of Israel and Solomon his son.

Events the dataset lists Solomon as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

1. c. 1015 BC
   Reign of Solomon1 Kings 2:12–11:42 · at Jerusalem
2. c. 975 BC
   Death of Solomon1 Kings 11:43 · at Jerusalem

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.