Solomon
99 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
47 sections
- A “Type” of Christ
- An Ancestor of Joseph
- Anointed King a Second Time
- Beloved of God
- Builds Another House for Pharaoh's Daughter
- Builds his House, the Forest of Lebanon
- Builds his Palace
- Builds Idolatrous Temples
- Builds Millo
- Builds the Temple
- Cedes some Inferior Cities to Hiram
- Commerce of
- Covenant Renewed in a Vision After the Dedication of the Temple
- Death of
- Dedicates the Temple
- Divides his Kingdom Into Subsistence Departments
- Drinking Vessels of his Houses
- Extent of his Dominions
- Has Seven-Hundred Wives and Three-Hundred Concubines
- His Idolatry
- His Prayer for Wisdom, and his Vision
- His Purveyors
- His Rigorous Reign
- Imports Apes and Peacocks
- Ivory Throne of
- Justice of, Illustrated in his Judgment of the Two Prostitutes
- Marries One of Pharaoh's Daughters
- Military Equipment of
- Musicians and Musical Instruments of his Court
- Named Jedidiah, by Nathan the Prophet
- Officers of
- Oppressions of
- Piety of
- Plants Vineyards and Orchards of all Kinds of Fruit Trees; Makes Pools
- Porches of Judgment
- Presents Received By
- Prophecies Concerning
- Provides an Armory
- Receives Tribute (Taxes)
- Reigns for Forty Years
- Renews the Courses of the Priests and Levites
- Son of David by Bath-Sheba
- Succeeds David to the Throne of Israel
- The Splendor of his Court
- Their Influence Over Him
- Wealth of
- Wisdom and Fame of
A “Type” of Christ
- Psalm 45:2–17 You are the most handsome of men; grace has anointed your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever. …
An Ancestor of Joseph
- Matthew 1:6 and Jesse the father of David the king. Next: David was the father of Solomon by Uriah’s wife,
Anointed King a Second Time
- 1 Chronicles 29:22 That day they ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD. Then, for a second time, they designated David’s son Solomon as king, anointing him before the LORD as ruler, and Zadok as the priest.
Beloved of God
- 2 Samuel 12:24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
Builds Another House for Pharaoh's Daughter
- 1 Kings 7:8–12 And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married. …
- 1 Kings 9:24 As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
- 2 Chronicles 8:11 Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
- Ecclesiastes 2:4 I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
Builds his House, the Forest of Lebanon
- 1 Kings 7:2–7 He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams. …
Builds his Palace
- 1 Kings 3:1 Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 7:1 Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.
- 1 Kings 7:8 And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.
- 1 Kings 9:10 Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
- 2 Chronicles 7:11 When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,
- 2 Chronicles 8:1 Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,
- Ecclesiastes 2:4 I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
Builds Idolatrous Temples
- 1 Kings 11:1–8 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh — women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. …
- 2 Kings 23:13 The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the …
Builds Millo
- 1 Kings 9:15–19 This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. …
- 2 Chronicles 9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
Builds the Temple
- 1 Kings 5:1 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.
- 1 Kings 6:1 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.
- 1 Kings 9:10 Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
- 1 Chronicles 6:10 Johanan was the father of Azariah, who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem,
- 2 Chronicles 2:1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
- 2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 2 Chronicles 4:1 He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
- 2 Chronicles 7:11 When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,
- Jeremiah 52:20 As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
- Acts 7:1 Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”
Cedes some Inferior Cities to Hiram
- 1 Kings 9:10–13 Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace, …
- 2 Chronicles 8:2 Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there.
Commerce of
- 1 Kings 9:28 They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there— 420 talents— and delivered it to Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:11–12 (The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones. …
- 1 Kings 10:22 For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- 1 Kings 10:28–29 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue. …
- 2 Chronicles 1:16–17 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue. …
- 2 Chronicles 8:17–18 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of Edom. …
- 2 Chronicles 9:13–22 The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents, …
- 2 Chronicles 9:28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from all the lands.
Covenant Renewed in a Vision After the Dedication of the Temple
- 1 Kings 9:1–9 Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do, …
- 2 Chronicles 7:12–22 the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. …
Death of
- 2 Chronicles 9:29–31 As for the rest of the acts of Solomon, from beginning to end, are they not written in the Records of Nathan the Prophet, in the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the Visions of Iddo the Seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat? …
Dedicates the Temple
- 1 Kings 8:1 At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel — all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites — to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
- 2 Chronicles 6:1 Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.
Divides his Kingdom Into Subsistence Departments
- 1 Kings 4:7–23 Solomon 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, …
- 1 Kings 4:27–28 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. …
Drinking Vessels of his Houses
- 1 Kings 10:21 All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:20 All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
Extent of his Dominions
- 1 Kings 4:21 And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
- 1 Kings 4:24 For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates — over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza — and he had peace on all sides.
- 1 Kings 8:65 So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him— a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt— kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days— fourteen days in all.
- 2 Chronicles 7:8 So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him— a very great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt— kept the feast for seven days.
- 2 Chronicles 9:26 He reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
Has Seven-Hundred Wives and Three-Hundred Concubines
- 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines — and his wives turned his heart away.
- Deuteronomy 17:17 He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.
His Idolatry
- 1 Kings 3:3–4 And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. …
- 2 Kings 23:13 The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the …
- Nehemiah 13:26 Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel— yet foreign women drew him into sin.
His Prayer for Wisdom, and his Vision
- 1 Kings 3:5–14 One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!” …
- 2 Chronicles 1:7–12 That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!” …
His Purveyors
- 1 Kings 4:7–19 Solomon 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, …
His Rigorous Reign
- 1 Kings 2:1 As the time drew near for David to die, he charged his son Solomon,
Imports Apes and Peacocks
- 1 Kings 10:22 For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
Ivory Throne of
- 1 Kings 7:7 In addition, he built a hall for the throne, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.
- 1 Kings 10:18–20 Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold. …
Justice of, Illustrated in his Judgment of the Two Prostitutes
- 1 Kings 3:16–28 At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. …
Marries One of Pharaoh's Daughters
- 1 Kings 3:1 Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
Military Equipment of
- 1 Kings 4:26 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.
- 1 Kings 4:28 Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.
- 1 Kings 10:16–17 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. …
- 1 Kings 10:26 Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 10:28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
- 2 Chronicles 1:14 Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
- Deuteronomy 17:15–16 you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers. …
Musicians and Musical Instruments of his Court
- 1 Kings 10:12 The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen again to this day.)
- 2 Chronicles 9:11 The king made the algum wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had anything like them been seen in the land of Judah.)
- Ecclesiastes 2:8 and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered to myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men — many concubines.
Named Jedidiah, by Nathan the Prophet
- 2 Samuel 12:24–25 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child …
Officers of
- 1 Kings 2:35 And the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.
- 1 Kings 4:1–19 So King Solomon ruled over Israel, …
- 2 Chronicles 8:9–10 But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slave labor, because they were his men of war, the leaders of his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry. …
Oppressions of
- 1 Kings 12:4 “Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
- 2 Chronicles 10:4 “Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
Piety of
- 1 Kings 3:5–15 One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!” …
- 1 Kings 4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore.
- 1 Kings 8:1 At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel — all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites — to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
Plants Vineyards and Orchards of all Kinds of Fruit Trees; Makes Pools
- Ecclesiastes 2:4–6 I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. …
Porches of Judgment
- 1 Kings 7:7 In addition, he built a hall for the throne, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.
Presents Received By
- 1 Kings 10:10 Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again were spices in such abundance brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:9 Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:23–24 All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart. …
Prophecies Concerning
- 2 Samuel 7:12–16 And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. …
- 1 Kings 11:9–13 Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. …
- 1 Chronicles 17:11–14 And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. …
- 1 Chronicles 28:6–7 And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father. …
- Psalm 132:11 The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.
Provides an Armory
- 1 Kings 10:16–17 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. …
Receives Tribute (Taxes)
- 1 Kings 4:21 And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
- 1 Kings 9:21 their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction— Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
- 2 Chronicles 8:8 their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites had not destroyed — Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
Reigns for Forty Years
- 2 Chronicles 9:30 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
Renews the Courses of the Priests and Levites
- 2 Chronicles 8:12–16 At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico. …
- 2 Chronicles 35:4 Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions, according to the instructions written by David king of Israel and Solomon his son.
- Nehemiah 12:45 They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, as David and his son Solomon had prescribed.
Son of David by Bath-Sheba
- 2 Samuel 12:24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
- 1 Kings 1:13 Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’
- 1 Kings 1:17 “My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ‘Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.’
- 1 Kings 1:21 Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”
Succeeds David to the Throne of Israel
- 1 Kings 1:11–48 Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it? …
- 1 Kings 2:12 So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established.
- 1 Chronicles 23:1 When David was old and full of years, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 28:1 Now David summoned all the leaders of Israel to Jerusalem: the leaders of the tribes, the leaders of the divisions in the king’s service, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officials in charge of all the …
- Ecclesiastes 1:12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
The Splendor of his Court
- 1 Kings 10:5–9 the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away. …
- 1 Kings 10:12 The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen again to this day.)
- 2 Chronicles 9:3–8 When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built, …
- Ecclesiastes 2:9 So I became great and surpassed all in Jerusalem who had preceded me; and my wisdom remained with me.
- Matthew 6:29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
- Luke 12:27 Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
Their Influence Over Him
- 1 Kings 11:4 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
Wealth of
- 1 Kings 9:1 Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
- 1 Kings 10:10 Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again were spices in such abundance brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:14–15 The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents, …
- 1 Kings 10:23 So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
- 1 Kings 10:27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- 2 Chronicles 1:15 The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- 2 Chronicles 9:1 Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon, she came to test him with difficult questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan— with camels bearing spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. …
- 2 Chronicles 9:9 Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:13 The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,
- 2 Chronicles 9:24 Year after year, each visitor would bring his tribute: articles of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
- 2 Chronicles 9:27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- Ecclesiastes 1:16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”
Wisdom and Fame of
- 1 Kings 4:29–34 And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore. …
- 1 Kings 10:3–4 And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for the king to explain. …
- 1 Kings 10:8 How blessed are your men! How blessed are these servants of yours who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!
- 1 Kings 10:23–24 So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. …
- 1 Chronicles 29:24–25 All the officials and mighty men, as well as all of King David’s sons, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon. …
- 2 Chronicles 9:2–7 And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for him to explain. …
- 2 Chronicles 9:22–23 So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. …
- Ecclesiastes 1:16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”
- Matthew 12:42 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
Related topics
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.