After these things Jesus went away across the  ¹Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.

And a great crowd followed Him, because they saw the signs which He did on those who were sick.

And Jesus went up to the  ¹mountain and sat there with His disciples.

Now the  ¹Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.

Jesus then lifting up His eyes and seeing that a great crowd was coming toward Him, said to Philip, Where shall we buy bread that these may eat?

But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He was about to do.

Philip answered Him, Two hundred  ¹denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that each one may take a little.

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him,

There is a little boy here who has  ¹five  ²barley loaves and two fish; but what are these for so many?

Jesus said, Have the people recline. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men reclined, in number about five thousand.

Jesus then took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed to those who were reclining; likewise also of the fish, as much as they wanted.

And when they were filled, He said to His disciples, Gather the broken pieces left over that nothing may be lost.

So they gathered them and filled  ¹twelve handbaskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves which were left over among those who had eaten.

The people therefore, seeing the sign which He did, said, This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.

Then Jesus, knowing that they were about to come and take Him by force  ¹to make Him King, withdrew again to the mountain, Himself alone.

And when evening fell, His disciples went down to the sea,

And they got into a boat and began crossing the sea to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

And because a strong wind was blowing, the  ¹sea was churning.

Then, when they had rowed about  ¹twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw  ²Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they became frightened.

But He said to them, It is I. Do not be afraid.

Then they were willing to  ¹take Him into the boat; and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

And when  ¹Solomon had finished building the house of Jehovah and the king's house and everything that Solomon desired to make,

Jehovah appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

And Jehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication which you have made before Me; I have sanctified this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there continually.

And as for you, if you walk before Me, as David your father walked, with a perfect and upright heart by doing according to all that I have commanded you and keep My statutes and My ordinances,

Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, You will not lack a man on the throne of Israel.

But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me and do not keep My commandments and My statutes, which I have put before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

Then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land which I have given them, and the house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all the peoples.

And this house will become  ¹heaps, and everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss and say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?

And they will say, Because they forsook Jehovah their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods and worshipped them and served them; therefore Jehovah brought all this evil upon them.

And at the end of the twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king's house,

Since Hiram the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar wood and with cypress wood and with gold, according to all that he desired, King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.

And he said, What are these cities which you have given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul, as it is unto this day.

And Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of Jehovah and his own house and the  ¹Millo and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer.

(Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire and had slain the Canaanites who lived in the city and given it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon.)

And Solomon rebuilt Gezer and lower Beth-Horon,

And Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

And all the storage cities that Solomon had, even the cities for chariots, and the cities for horsemen and what Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion.

All of the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel,

Their children who were left after them in the land whom the children of Israel were not able to destroy utterly, Solomon levied as forced labor, as they are unto this day.

But Solomon did not make slaves of the children of Israel; for they were the men of war and his servants and his officers and his captains and the officers over his chariots and his horsemen.

These were the chief of the officers over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people doing the work.

As soon as Pharaoh's daughter came up from the city of David into her house which  ¹Solomon had built for her, he built the Millo.

And three times a year Solomon offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he had built to Jehovah, and he burned incense with them on the altar which was before Jehovah. Thus he finished the house.

King Solomon also built ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

And Hiram sent his servants in the ships, sailors who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

And they went to Ophir and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there and brought it to King Solomon.

And the queen of Sheba had heard of Solomon's fame in connection with the name of Jehovah, and she came to test him with hard questions.

And she came to Jerusalem with a very large retinue, with camels bearing spices and with very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she spoke all that was on her heart to him.

And Solomon answered every matter of hers; there was nothing hidden from the king that he did not answer her.

And when the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon and the house that he had built

And the food of his table and the seating of his servants and the service and apparel of his ministers and his cupbearers and his burnt offerings that he offered up at the house of Jehovah, there was no more spirit in her.

And she said to the king, The word that I heard in my land concerning your deeds and your wisdom is true,

But I did not believe the words until I came and my own eyes saw. And indeed the half was not told to me; your wisdom and prosperity far exceed the report that I heard.

Happy are your men! Happy are these your servants, who attend you continually and hear your wisdom!

Blessed be Jehovah your God, who has delighted in you and set you upon the throne of Israel. Because Jehovah loves Israel forever, He has made you king to execute justice and righteousness.

And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold and a very great store of spices and some precious stones; never again did so great an abundance of spices come as that which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

Moreover Hiram's fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, brought a great many almug trees and precious stones.

And the king made of the almug trees a banister for the house of Jehovah and for the king's house, and lyres and harps for the singers; such almug trees have not come nor have been seen again to this day.

And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked for, besides that which King Solomon gave her from his bounty. And she returned and went to her own land, she and her servants.

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,

Besides that which came through the traders and through the traffic of the merchants and through all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land.

And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; he put six hundred shekels of gold upon each large shield.

And he made three hundred smaller shields of beaten gold; he put three minas of gold upon each smaller shield. And the king put them in the Lebanon Forest House.

And the king made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with the finest gold.

The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was rounded at its back; and there were armrests on either side next to the place of the seat, and two lions stood next to the armrests.

And twelve lions stood there upon the six steps on either side. Nothing like it had ever been made in any kingdom.

And all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the Lebanon Forest House were of pure gold; none were of silver, which was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

For the king had at sea a fleet from Tarshish as well as Hiram's fleet. Once every three years the fleet from Tarshish came bearing gold and silver and ivory and apes and peacocks.

And King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.

And all the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

And they each brought their tribute, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes and weapons and spices, horses and mules, so much year by year.

And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen together; and he had a thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, which he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

And the king caused silver to be as plentiful as stones in Jerusalem; and cedars, like the sycamores that are in the lowlands.

And the horses that Solomon had came from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders bought them from Kue at a fixed price.

A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver and a horse for a hundred and fifty shekels, and thus they brought them out to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria by their own means.