Znaleziono 1930 Wyniki dla: Choosing A King
Blessed be the Lord thy God, who, in his eternal love for Israel, has brought thee, his favourite, to the throne, given thee a king’s power to do justice and to make award! (1 Kings 10, 9)
A hundred and twenty talents’ weight of gold she gave to king Solomon, with many spices and precious stones; never did such abundance of spices come to Israel as those which the queen of Saba gave. (1 Kings 10, 10)
and of this sandal-wood king Solomon made pedestals for temple and palace, harp and zither for his musicians; finer sandal-wood never reached us, no, nor was ever seen.) (1 Kings 10, 12)
Two hundred shields king Solomon made of the purest gold, allowing six hundred sicles of gold to the plating of each; (1 Kings 10, 16)
three hundred bucklers, too, of assayed gold, with three (hundred) minas of gold to cover each;✻ and all these the king put in the building that was called the Forest of Lebanon. (1 Kings 10, 17)
Of gold were all the goblets from which king Solomon drank, of purest gold all the furniture in the building called the Forest of Lebanon; no silver was used, for indeed in King Solomon’s day silver was little thought of. (1 Kings 10, 21)
And every three years the king’s fleet and Hiram’s would sail to Tharsis, whence they came back laden with gold and silver; with ivory, too, and apes, and peacocks for their freight. (1 Kings 10, 22)
Of chariots and horsemen king Solomon mustered a great force, fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen; of these, some were in the fortified towns, and some at the king’s side in Jerusalem. (1 Kings 10, 26)
But king Solomon gave his heart to many women of alien birth, not only to Pharao’s daughter, but to Moabites and Ammonites, Edomites and Sidonians and Hethites. (1 Kings 11, 1)
It was from Madian they began their journey, and when they reached Pharan they found adherents there; with these, they made their way into Egypt and had recourse to king Pharao, who gave Adad a house of his own, with an allowance of food and lands to cultivate. (1 Kings 11, 18)
Great favour Adad won with king Pharao, who gave him his own sister-in-law, the sister of queen Taphnes, for his wife; (1 Kings 11, 19)
(Meanwhile, God gave Solomon another enemy to contend with, Razon, son of Eliada, that ran away from his master, Adarezer king of Soba, (1 Kings 11, 23)
