I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 356

9--xx THE MONARCHICAL PERIOD.——I. KINGS. 10--5 XI I2 houses-thc House of the EVER- 1,xv1x~:<;, and the house of the king, Khiram, the king of '1`zur, having supplied Solomon with cedar wood, and pine wood, and gold, and all that he wished, King Solomon sold to Khiram twelve towns in Galilee, and Khiram came from Tzu: to see the towns that Solomon had sold to him; but they did not please him, What towns these are that my brother has sold to me I' Land of I to this day. .c. ggz.) x6 18 20 21 But Khiram paid to the king a

hundred and twenty talents of gold, for that was the amount of the tax which he contributed to King Solomon towards building the House of the Evan-Lrvmo, and his own Palace, and the Fortress and Wall of jerusalem, and the Court and Barracks, and Gazar. For Pharoh King of the Mitzeraim

had come up and captured Gazar, and burnt it with fire, and slaughtered the Cananites who occupied the town, and gave it as a present to his daughter, Solomon's wife. But Solomon rebuilt Gazar and Beth- Khoran the lower, and Balath, and Thadmor in the Midland Desert, and all the cities for the collection of taxes that Solomon had, and the Chariot Barracks, and the Cavalry Barracks, and the Columns of So1omon,——which Columns he built in jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in every country where he governed. Solomon placed .a tax, which con-

tinues to this day,2 upon all the people who remained of the Amo- rites, and the Hitites, and the Perizites, the Hivites, and the jebu- sites, the descendants of whom remained in the country, whom the children of israel were not able to destroy. But upon the children of Israel Solomon did not lay it, for Kabul? knots or twists.-F. F. V. zo. The remark that the tax laid by

Solomon upon the Aborigines in the country existed at the date this history was written, proves it to have been composed anyone the date of the Assyrian and Babylonian Cap- tivities, for these events abolished all his legislation. This is another roof of Isaiah’s Pauthorshiof the whole 0 these histories p inclusive rom joshua to the death of Heze- kiah in Il. Kings.-—F. F. they were soldiers, and his ministers, and his Generals, and Colonels, and Commanders of the Chariots, and his Cavalry. These were the Commanders of the

Engineers, who were over the works of Solomon: Fifty-five Superintendents of the

people who did the works; which were,- The Palace for Pharoh‘s daughter

at the top of the City of David; which Palace he built for her, when he had built the fortress. Solomon also odered three times

a year burnt-offerings and thank- offerings upon the Altar that he built to the Evan-Lxvmo, and per- fumes with them before the EVER- uvmo, after he had finished the House. 22 (About n.c. 1006.) Wrath: luitb Quiz: began. King Solomon also built ships at

Atzion-Gabar, which is at Ailoth on the Red Sea, in the country of Edom; and Khiram sent his omcers, men skilful in navigation, to sea with the officers of Solomon, who went to Aufer and collected from there four hundred and twenty talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon. 26 28

(ac. 992-3.) hisii nf the @1wzn nf Sheba. When the Queen of Sheba! heard 10 the report of Solomon‘s lordly fame, she came to try him with difficult problems, and arrived at jerusalem with a very great troop bringing per- fumes, and a large amount of gold, and precious stones, and went to Solomon and conversed with him about all that was in her heart. There was nothing she proposed to the King that he did not explain to her. When the Queen of Sheba per- ceived all the sciences of Solomon, and the House which he had built, and his dining-room, and the resi- dences of his ministers, and the attendants serving him, and their uniforms, and the cup·bearers, and the offerings which he offered in the House of the Even-Livirxo, there 1 The South. Undoubtedly Abyssinia and

the East Coast of Africa down to the Cape of Good Hope.—F. I· 356