Buildings built by King Solomon:
But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks. And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them. Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other. And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch. All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court. And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars. And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.-1 Kings 7:1-12***Solomon was the 3rd king to reign over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land, the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants. Saul, from the tribe of Jacob's 12th and last son Benjamin, was the 1st king to reign over the Israelites in the Promised Land. Solomon's father David was the 2nd king to reign over all of the Israelites. After David founded and began establishing buildings in the City of David, and brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the home of Abinadab in Kirjath-jearim in the portion of the Promised Land allotted to the tribe of Judah, and brought the ark from the home of Obed-edom, David wanted to build a house for the name of the Lord wherein to set the ark. In the City of David, the ark was placed in a specific tent. The Lord God told Nathan the prophet to tell David that David's son and successor would build the house for the name of the Lord. Thus, during the 4th year of Solomon's reign, Solomon began building the temple, according to the specifications David received from the hand of the Lord upon him and the understanding the Lord gave him. Moreover, Solomon built porches, chambers, an inner courtyard, an ivory and gold throne, a royal residence for himself, a royal residence for the Egyptian princess he married, a multitude of cities, and the House of the Forest of Lebanon that held 300 gold shields that apparently weighed 3 pounds or 300 shekels each. Over 900 years after Rehoboam, the son born to Solomon and Naamah, became the 4th king to reign over all of the Israelites, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah, the tribe of David and his descendants, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:33, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-14:31, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 8:1-40, 9:35-29:30, 2 Chronicles 1:1-12:16, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
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