God Appears Again to Solomon When Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king’s house and all that Solomon desired to build,
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And Eliu the prophet, the Thesbite of Thesbae of Galaad, said to Achaab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the word of my mouth.
And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before me; I have consecrated this house which you have built, and put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Depart hence eastward, and hide thee by the brook of Chorrath, that is before Jordan.
And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And it shall be that thou shalt drink water of the brook, and I will charge the ravens to feed thee there.
then I will establish your royal throne over Israel for ever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel.’
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And Eliu did according to the word of the Lord, and he sat by the brook of Chorrath before Jordan.
But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And the ravens brought him loaves in the morning, and flesh in the evening and he drank water of the brook.
then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And it came to pass after some time, that the brook was dried up, because there had been no rain upon the earth.
And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished, and will hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’
Then they will say, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought all this evil upon them.’”
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Arise, and go to Sarepta of the Sidonian land: behold, I have there commanded a widow-woman to maintain thee.
At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house,
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And he arose and went to Sarepta, and came to the gate of the city: and, behold, a widow-woman was there gathering sticks; and Eliu cried after her, and said to her, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And she went to fetch it; and Eliu cried after her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of the bread that is in thy hand.
But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, they did not please him.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And the woman said, As the Lord thy God lives, I have not a cake, but only a handful of meal in the pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse, and, behold, I am going to gather two sticks, and I shall go in and dress it for myself and my children, and we shall eat it and die.
Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of Cabul to this day.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And Eliu said to her, Be of good courage, go in and do according to thy word: but make me thereof a little cake, and thou shalt bring it out to me first, and thou shalt make some for thyself and thy children last.
Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
For thus saith the Lord, The pitcher of meal shall not fail, and the cruse of oil shall not diminish, until the day that the Lord gives rain upon the earth.
Other Acts of Solomon And this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megid′do and Gezer
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And the woman went and did so, and did eat, she, and he, and her children.
(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burnt it with fire, and had slain the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife;
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And the pitcher of meal failed not, and the cruse of oil was not diminished, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the hand of Eliu.
And it came to pass afterward, that the son of the woman the mistress of the house was sick; and his sickness was very severe, until there was no breath left in him.
and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And Eliu said to the woman, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and took him up to the chamber in which he himself lodged, and laid him on the bed.
Greek • يوناني (السبعينية / الأصلية)
και πάσας τας πόλεις των αποθηκών, τας οποίας είχεν ο Σολομών, και τας πόλεις των αμαξών και τας πόλεις των ιππέων και ό,τι επεθύμησεν ο Σολομών να οικοδομήση εν Ιερουσαλήμ και εν τω Λιβάνω και εν πάση τη γη της επικρατείας αυτού.
All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Per′izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb′usites, who were not of the people of Israel—
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And Eliu cried aloud, and said, Alas, O Lord, the witness of the widow with whom I sojourn, thou hast wrought evil for her in slaying her son.
Greek • يوناني (السبعينية / الأصلية)
Πάντα δε τον λαόν τον εναπολειφθέντα εκ των Αμορραίων, των Χετταίων, των Φερεζαίων, των Ευαίων και των Ιεβουσαίων, οίτινες δεν ήσαν εκ των υιών Ισραήλ,
their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to destroy utterly—these Solomon made a forced levy of slaves, and so they are to this day.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And he breathed on the child thrice, and called on the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, let, I pray thee, the soul of this child return to him.
Greek • يوناني (السبعينية / الأصلية)
αλλ' εκ των τέκνων εκείνων των εναπολειφθέντων εν τη γη, τους οποίους οι υιοί Ισραήλ δεν ηδυνήθησαν να εξολοθρεύσωσιν, επί τούτους ο Σολομών επέβαλε φόρον έως της ημέρας ταύτης.
But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves; they were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And it was so, and the child cried out,
Greek • يوناني (السبعينية / الأصلية)
Εκ δε των υιών Ισραήλ ο Σολομών δεν έκαμεν ουδένα δούλον· διότι ήσαν άνδρες πολεμισταί και θεράποντες αυτού και μεγιστάνες αυτού και ταξίαρχοι αυτού και άρχοντες των αμαξών αυτού και των ιππέων αυτού.
Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to the Lord, burning incense before the Lord. So he finished the house.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
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Greek • يوناني (السبعينية / الأصلية)
Και προσέφερεν ο Σολομών τρίς του ενιαυτού ολοκαυτώματα και ειρηνικάς προσφοράς επί του θυσιαστηρίου, το οποίον ωκοδόμησεν εις τον Κύριον, και εθυμίαζεν επί του όντος έμπροσθεν του Κυρίου· ούτως ετελείωσε τον οίκον.
Solomon’s Commercial Activity King Solomon built a fleet of ships at E′zion-ge′ber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
even that for which king Solomon built a ship in Gasion Gaber near Ælath on the shore of the extremity of the sea in the land of Edom.