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his father had been a Tyrian, but his mother, now a widow, belonged to the tribe of Nephthali. A craftsman in bronze, wise, adroit and skilful at doing a brazier’s work; and to do such work king Solomon had now summoned him. (1 Kings 7, 14)
Pot and shovel and bucket Hiram made, all that king Solomon needed for the service of the Lord’s temple. (1 Kings 7, 40)
and the king had them cast in the clay soil of the Jordan valley, between Socoth and Sarthan; (1 Kings 7, 46)
Then all the elders of Israel, the chiefs of the tribes, and the heads of clans, met in Jerusalem to help king Solomon bring the ark home; the ark then rested in the Keep of David, which we call Sion. (1 Kings 8, 1)
It was on the great feast day of the seventh month (Ethanim, as it is called) that king Solomon sent out this summons to the whole of Israel, (1 Kings 8, 2)
King Solomon walked before the ark, and with him all the throng of Israelites that had assembled; no reckoning made, no count taken, of the sheep and oxen they offered up as victims. (1 Kings 8, 5)
With that, the king turned to bless the whole assembly of Israel; all Israel, that stood to receive his blessing. (1 Kings 8, 14)
So many years since he had rescued his people from Egypt, and never a city among all the tribes of Israel had he chosen to be the site of his dwelling-place or the shrine of his name; but a man he did choose out, to rule his people, king David. (1 Kings 8, 16)
So prayed king Solomon, so he pleaded with the Lord; and when he had finished, he rose up from before the Lord’s altar, where he had knelt on the ground with his hands outstretched towards heaven, (1 Kings 8, 54)
Then the king and all Israel with him immolated their victims in the Lord’s presence; (1 Kings 8, 62)
twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep were slaughtered as Solomon’s welcome-offering to the Lord. Thus the king and the men of Israel dedicated the temple. (1 Kings 8, 63)
That day, the king must needs hallow the middle part of the court before the Lord’s house, burning there the burnt-sacrifice, and the bloodless offerings, and the fat taken from the welcome-victims; there was no room for these on the brazen altar that stood there in the Lord’s presence. (1 Kings 8, 64)
