TBESH · H9001
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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/וַ (v) means “&” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: v STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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Page 121 of 227. 11323 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
Read word by wordOne woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house.
Read word by wordOn the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.
Read word by wordDuring the night this woman’s son died because she rolled over on him.
Read word by wordSo she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.
Read word by wordThe next morning, when I got up to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I examined him, I realized that he was not the son I had borne.”
Read word by word“No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king.
Read word by wordThen the king replied, “This woman says, ‘My son is alive and yours is dead,’ but that woman says, ‘No, your son is dead and mine is alive.’”
Read word by wordThe king continued, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought him a sword,
Read word by wordand the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”
Read word by wordThen the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
Read word by wordThen the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”
Read word by wordWhen all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
Read word by wordSo King Solomon ruled over Israel,
Read word by wordSolomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,
Read word by wordSolomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.2
Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.5
Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.6
Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.7
And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.9
Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.10
He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.11
Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.12
He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.13
So men of all nations came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.14
Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.15
And Solomon relayed this message to Hiram:
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.16
When Hiram received Solomon’s message, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day! He has given David a wise son over this great people!”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.21
Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying: “I have received your message; I will do all you desire regarding the cedar and cypress timber.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.22
My servants will haul the logs from Lebanon to the Sea, and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate the logs, and you can take them away. And in exchange, you can meet my needs by providing my household with food.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.23
So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.24
And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.26
Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.27
He sent them to Lebanon in monthly shifts of 10,000 men, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.28
Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.29
And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.31
So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.32
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
Read word by wordHe also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.
Read word by wordAgainst the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
Read word by wordSo Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
Read word by wordHe built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
Read word by wordThen the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:
Read word by word“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
Read word by wordAnd I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”
Read word by wordSo Solomon built the temple and finished it.
Read word by wordHe lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
Read word by wordHe partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
Read word by wordThe inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
Read word by wordSo Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
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