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Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the sacred tent and anointed Solomon. Then they sounded the trumpet and all the people shouted, “Long live King Solomon!”
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When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the horns of the altar.
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King Solomon was told that Joab had fled to the tent of the Lord and was beside the altar. Then Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, “Go, strike him down!”
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So Benaiah entered the tent of the Lord and said to Joab, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But he answered, “No, I will die here.” Benaiah reported to the king, “This is how Joab answered me.”
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The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
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ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty of pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl.
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Solomon had four thousand stalls for chariot horses, and twelve thousand horses.
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He spoke three thousand proverbs and his songs numbered a thousand and five.
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and Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat as food for his household, in addition to twenty thousand baths of pressed olive oil. Solomon continued to do this for Hiram year after year.
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King Solomon conscripted laborers from all Israel—thirty thousand men.
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He sent them off to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand a month, so that they spent one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.
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Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills,
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The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits, and projected ten cubits from the front of the temple.
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For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
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One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits—ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.
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The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.
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The height of each cherub was ten cubits.
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The foundations were laid with large stones of good quality, some measuring ten cubits and some eight.
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He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.
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Below the rim, gourds encircled it—ten to a cubit. The gourds were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.
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It was a handbreadth in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.
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He also made ten movable stands of bronze; each was four cubits long, four wide and three high.
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This is the way he made the ten stands. They were all cast in the same molds and were identical in size and shape.
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He then made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin to go on each of the ten stands.
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the ten stands with their ten basins;
