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  1 Kings 10-11


10:1 When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relation to the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions.
10:2 Arriving at Jerusalem with a very great caravan-- with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones-- she came to Solomon and talked with him about all that she had on her mind.
10:3 Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for the king to explain to her.
10:4 When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon and the palace he had built,
10:5 the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he made at the temple of the LORD, she was overwhelmed.
10:6 She said to the king, "The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true.
10:7 But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told me; in wisdom and wealth you have far exceeded the report I heard.
10:8 How happy your men must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
10:9 Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD's eternal love for Israel, he has made you king, to maintain justice and righteousness."
10:10 And she gave the king 120 talents of gold, large quantities of spices, and precious stones. Never again were so many spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
10:11 (Hiram's ships brought gold from Ophir; and from there they brought great cargoes of almugwood and precious stones.
10:12 The king used the almugwood to make supports for the temple of the LORD and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. So much almugwood has never been imported or seen since that day.)
10:13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for, besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.
10:14 The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,
10:15 not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the land.
10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred bekas of gold went into each shield.
10:17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three minas of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.
10:18 Then the king made a great throne inlaid with ivory and overlaid with fine gold.
10:19 The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them.
10:20 Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom.
10:21 All King Solomon's goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon's days.
10:22 The king had a fleet of trading ships at sea along with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.
10:23 King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth.
10:24 The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.
10:25 Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift-- articles of silver and gold, robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules.
10:26 Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses, which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
10:27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills.
10:28 Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue--the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
10:29 They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans.
11:1 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter-- Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.
11:2 They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.
11:3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.
11:4 As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.
11:5 He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites.
11:6 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done.
11:7 On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites.
11:8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
11:9 The LORD became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
11:10 Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD's command.
11:11 So the LORD said to Solomon, "Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates.
11:12 Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
11:13 Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him, but will give him one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen."
11:14 Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.
11:15 Earlier when David was fighting with Edom, Joab the commander of the army, who had gone up to bury the dead, had struck down all the men in Edom.
11:16 Joab and all the Israelites stayed there for six months, until they had destroyed all the men in Edom.
11:17 But Hadad, still only a boy, fled to Egypt with some Edomite officials who had served his father.
11:18 They set out from Midian and went to Paran. Then taking men from Paran with them, they went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.
11:19 Pharaoh was so pleased with Hadad that he gave him a sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes, in marriage.
11:20 The sister of Tahpenes bore him a son named Genubath, whom Tahpenes brought up in the royal palace. There Genubath lived with Pharaoh's own children.
11:21 While he was in Egypt, Hadad heard that David rested with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was also dead. Then Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me go, that I may return to my own country."
11:22 "What have you lacked here that you want to go back to your own country?" Pharaoh asked. "Nothing," Hadad replied, "but do let me go!"
11:23 And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah.
11:24 He gathered men around him and became the leader of a band of rebels when David destroyed the forces [of Zobah]; the rebels went to Damascus, where they settled and took control.
11:25 Rezon was Israel's adversary as long as Solomon lived, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled in Aram and was hostile toward Israel.
11:26 Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon's officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah.
11:27 Here is the account of how he rebelled against the king
11:28 Now Jeroboam was a man of standing, and when Solomon saw how well the young man did his work, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.
11:29 About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country,
11:30 and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.
11:31 Then he said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says
11:32 But for the sake of my servant David and the city of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, he will have one tribe.
11:33 I will do this because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molech the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in my ways, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my statutes and laws as David, Solomon's father, did.
11:34 ""But I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon's hand; I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose and who observed my commands and statutes.
11:35 I will take the kingdom from his son's hands and give you ten tribes.
11:36 I will give one tribe to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name.
11:37 However, as for you, I will take you, and you will rule over all that your heart desires; you will be king over Israel.
11:38 If you do whatever I command you and walk in my ways and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you.
11:39 I will humble David's descendants because of this, but not forever.""
11:40 Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king, and stayed there until Solomon's death.
11:41 As for the other events of Solomon's reign-- all he did and the wisdom he displayed-- are they not written in the book of the annals of Solomon?
11:42 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
11:43 Then he rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.

  Luke 21


21:1 As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury.
21:2 He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.
21:3 "I tell you the truth," he said, "this poor widow has put in more than all the others.
21:4 All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on."
21:5 Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said,
21:6 "As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down."
21:7 "Teacher," they asked, "when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?"
21:8 He replied
21:9 When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away."
21:10 Then he said to them
21:11 There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
21:12 "But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.
21:13 This will result in your being witnesses to them.
21:14 But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves.
21:15 For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
21:16 You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death.
21:17 All men will hate you because of me.
21:18 But not a hair of your head will perish.
21:19 By standing firm you will gain life.
21:20 "When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near.
21:21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city.
21:22 For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written.
21:23 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.
21:24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
21:25 "There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.
21:26 Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
21:27 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
21:28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."
21:29 He told them this parable
21:30 When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near.
21:31 Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
21:32 "I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
21:33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
21:34 "Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.
21:35 For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth.
21:36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man."
21:37 Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives,
21:38 and all the people came early in the morning to hear him at the temple.