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4. He made preparation for the house of God, exhorted the Princes, and encouraged his sonne Solomon unto the work. I have prepared with all my power for the house of my God, gold for vessels of gold, and silver for them of silver, &c. Moreover, because I have delight in the house of my God, I have of mine owne gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, beside all that I have prepared for the house of the Sanctuary. And the Princes of the families gave for the service of the house of God, five thousand talents of gold, and ten thousand pieces, &c. ''And they with whom pretious stones were found, gave them to the treasure of the house of the Lord. And the people rejoyced when they offered willingly; for they offered willingly unto the Lord with a fit heart''.

5. God gave Solomon a large heart for wisedome and understanding, to goe in and out before the people. Behold, I have done according to thy words; loe I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall arise the like unto thee.

6. The Lord magnified Solomon in dignity, in the sight of all Israel, and gave him so glorious a Kingdome, as no King had before him in Israel. And the King gave silver and gold at Jerusalem as stones, and gave Cedar trees as the wild figge trees, that are aboundantly in the plaine. So King Solomon excelled all the Kings of the earth, in riches and wisedome. ''And all the Kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to heare his wisedome that God had put in his heart. And they brought every man his present. And he reigned over all the Kings from the river, even unto the Land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt''.

7. Solomon built the Temple upon the Mount Moriah, the place appointed and appropriated by the Lord, according to the patterne shewed unto him by his father David. So Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in Mount Moriah, which had been declared unto David his Father, in the place that David prepared in the threshing floore of Ornan the Jebusite.

8. Also he dedicated the house of God, blessed the people, praised God for his goodnesse, prayed unto the Lord that his eyes might be open towards this house day and night, even toward this place, whereof the Lord had said, that he would put his name