I increased my possessions: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.

我为自己动大工程，建造房屋，栽种葡萄园，

我大兴土木，为自己建造房屋，栽葡萄园，

我大兴土木，为自己建造房屋，栽葡萄园，

我大动工程，为自己建造房屋，栽种葡萄园，

我大事发展：为自己建造房屋，栽种葡萄园，

我扩建工程，为自己建造房屋，种植葡萄园；

我為自己動大工程，建造房屋，栽種葡萄園，

我大興土木，為自己建造房屋，栽葡萄園，

我大興土木，為自己建造房屋，栽葡萄園，

我大動工程，為自己建造房屋，栽種葡萄園，

我大事發展：為自己建造房屋，栽種葡萄園，

我為自己動大工程，建造房屋，為自己栽種葡萄園，

我擴建工程，為自己建造房屋，種植葡萄園；

我興鉅工、為己建屋、植葡萄園、

於是興工作、建屋宇、作園囿、種葡萄、栽百果、

於是廣興工作、建造屋宇、植葡萄園、

I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards.

So I started some large projects. I built houses for myself. I planted vineyards.

I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

I also tried to find meaning by building huge homes for myself and by planting beautiful vineyards.

I increased my achievements. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself;

I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards.

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

I increased my achievements. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace.He named it“ The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; it was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.There were three rows of windows arranged in sets of three.All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.He made a colonnade 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch.He also made a throne room, called“ The Hall of Judgment,” where he made judicial decisions. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters.The palace where he lived was constructed in a similar way. He also constructed a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.All of these were built with the best stones, chiseled to the right size and cut with a saw on all sides, from the foundation to the edge of the roof and from the outside to the great courtyard.The foundation was made of large valuable stones, measuring either 15 feet or 12 feet.Above the foundation the best stones, chiseled to the right size, were used along with cedar.Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the LORD’s temple and the hall of the palace.

There were six steps leading up to the throne, and the back of it was rounded on top. The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side.There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom.

Then they said,“ Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

“ I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.”

Shimei the Ramathite was in charge of the vineyards; Zabdi the Shiphmite was in charge of the wine stored in the vineyards.

My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-Gedi.

Their grave becomes their permanent residence, their eternal dwelling place. They name their lands after themselves,

I will sing to my love– a song to my lover about his vineyard. My love had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,be sure you do not feel self-important and forget the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery,

After Solomon finished building the LORD’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned,

Let us rise early to go to the vineyards, to see if the vines have budded, to see if their blossoms have opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom– there I will give you my love.

Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said,“ My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”

After twenty years, during which Solomon built the LORD’s temple and his royal palace,Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram had given him and settled Israelites there.Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized it.He built up Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities he had built in Hamath.He made upper Beth Horon and lower Beth Horon fortified cities with walls and barred gates,and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him, and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.

He built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns, for he owned many herds in the lowlands and on the plain. He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel, for he loved agriculture.

The king uttered these words:“ Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by my own mighty strength and for my majestic honor?”

Prior to this Absalom had set up a monument and dedicated it to himself in the King’s Valley, reasoning“ I have no son who will carry on my name.” He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom’s Memorial.

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-Hamon; he leased out the vineyard to those who maintained it. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.My vineyard, which belongs to me, is at my disposal alone. The thousand shekels belong to you, O Solomon, and two hundred shekels belong to those who maintain it for its fruit.