Ruins to Royalty

EquipHer Vol. 34: The “Boss Businesswoman” of the Bible

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NEW YEAR - 3 Day Devotional on Faith and Purpose

Fulfilling God’s Purpose for Your Life

Audacious Faith: Standing Firm in the Fire

21 Days of Intercession for Mercy Over America

The Advent of HOPE and the Object of Our Faith.

I Should Be Over This: When the Storm Passes but You're Still Spinning

Grace With a Taste of Cinnamon

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 <div class="q1">1I waited patiently for the Lord;</div><div class="q2">he turned to me and heard my cry.</div><div class="q1"> 2He lifted me out of the slimy pit,</div><div class="q2">out of the mud and mire;</div><div class="q1">he set my feet on a rock</div><div class="q2">and gave me a firm place to stand.</div><div class="q1"> 3He put a new song in my mouth,</div><div class="q2">a hymn of praise to our God.</div><div class="q1">Many will see and fear the Lord</div><div class="q2">and put their trust in him.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4Blessed is the one</div><div class="q2">who trusts in the Lord,</div><div class="q1">who does not look to the proud,</div><div class="q2">to those who turn aside to false gods.#40:4 Or to lies</div><div class="q1"> 5Many, Lord my God,</div><div class="q2">are the wonders you have done,</div><div class="q2">the things you planned for us.</div><div class="q1">None can compare with you;</div><div class="q2">were I to speak and tell of your deeds,</div><div class="q2">they would be too many to declare.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6Sacrifice and offering you did not desire&#8212;</div><div class="q2">but my ears you have opened#40:6 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts but a body you have prepared for me&#8212;</div><div class="q2">burnt offerings and sin offerings#40:6 Or purification offerings you did not require.</div><div class="q1"> 7Then I said, &#8220;Here I am, I have come&#8212;</div><div class="q2">it is written about me in the scroll.#40:7 Or come / with the scroll written for me</div><div class="q1"> 8I desire to do your will, my God;</div><div class="q2">your law is within my heart.&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 9I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly;</div><div class="q2">I do not seal my lips, Lord,</div><div class="q2">as you know.</div><div class="q1"> 10I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;</div><div class="q2">I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help.</div><div class="q1">I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness</div><div class="q2">from the great assembly.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord;</div><div class="q2">may your love and faithfulness always protect me.</div><div class="q1"> 12For troubles without number surround me;</div><div class="q2">my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.</div><div class="q1">They are more than the hairs of my head,</div><div class="q2">and my heart fails within me.</div><div class="q1"> 13Be pleased to save me, Lord;</div><div class="q2">come quickly, Lord, to help me.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 14May all who want to take my life</div><div class="q2">be put to shame and confusion;</div><div class="q1">may all who desire my ruin</div><div class="q2">be turned back in disgrace.</div><div class="q1"> 15May those who say to me, &#8220;Aha! Aha!&#8221;</div><div class="q2">be appalled at their own shame.</div><div class="q1"> 16But may all who seek you</div><div class="q2">rejoice and be glad in you;</div><div class="q1">may those who long for your saving help always say,</div><div class="q2">&#8220;The Lord is great!&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 17But as for me, I am poor and needy;</div><div class="q2">may the Lord think of me.</div><div class="q1">You are my help and my deliverer;</div><div class="q2">you are my God, do not delay.</div>
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 <div class="p">1At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the Lord and his own palace, 2Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram#8:2 Hebrew Huram, a variant of Hiram; also in verse 18 had given him, and settled Israelites in them. 3Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it. 4He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath. 5He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars, 6as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses#8:6 Or charioteers&#8212;whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.</div><div class="p"> 7There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites). 8Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these people remaining in the land&#8212;whom the Israelites had not destroyed&#8212;to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day. 9But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites for his work; they were his fighting men, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his chariots and charioteers. 10They were also King Solomon&#8217;s chief officials&#8212;two hundred and fifty officials supervising the men.</div><div class="p"> 11Solomon brought Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, &#8220;My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 12On the altar of the Lord that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord, 13according to the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths, the New Moons and the three annual festivals&#8212;the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. 14In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties, and the Levites to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day&#8217;s requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God had ordered. 15They did not deviate from the king&#8217;s commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.</div><div class="p"> 16All Solomon&#8217;s work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid until its completion. So the temple of the Lord was finished.</div><div class="p"> 17Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the coast of Edom. 18And Hiram sent him ships commanded by his own men, sailors who knew the sea. These, with Solomon&#8217;s men, sailed to Ophir and brought back four hundred and fifty talents#8:18 That is, about 17 tons or about 15 metric tons of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.</div>
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 <div class="p">1When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon&#8217;s fame, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions. Arriving with a very great caravan&#8212;with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones&#8212;she came to Solomon and talked with him about all she had on her mind. 2Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for him to explain to her. 3When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, as well as the palace he had built, 4the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, the cupbearers in their robes and the burnt offerings he made at#9:4 Or and the ascent by which he went up to the temple of the Lord, she was overwhelmed.</div><div class="p"> 5She said to the king, &#8220;The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true. 6But I did not believe what they said until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half the greatness of your wisdom was told me; you have far exceeded the report I heard. 7How happy your people must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! 8Praise be to the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king to rule for the Lord your God. Because of the love of your God for Israel and his desire to uphold them forever, he has made you king over them, to maintain justice and righteousness.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 9Then she gave the king 120 talents#9:9 That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons of gold, large quantities of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.</div><div class="p"> 10(The servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon brought gold from Ophir; they also brought algumwood#9:10 Probably a variant of almugwood and precious stones. 11The king used the algumwood to make steps for the temple of the Lord and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. Nothing like them had ever been seen in Judah.)</div><div class="p"> 12King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for; he gave her more than she had brought to him. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.</div><div class="s1">Solomon&#8217;s Splendor</div><div class="p"> 13The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,#9:13 That is, about 25 tons or about 23 metric tons 14not including the revenues brought in by merchants and traders. Also all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the territories brought gold and silver to Solomon.</div><div class="p"> 15King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels#9:15 That is, about 15 pounds or about 6.9 kilograms of hammered gold went into each shield. 16He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three hundred shekels#9:16 That is, about 7 1/2 pounds or about 3.5 kilograms of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.</div><div class="p"> 17Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with pure gold. 18The throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them. 19Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom. 20All King Solomon&#8217;s goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon&#8217;s day. 21The king had a fleet of trading ships#9:21 Hebrew of ships that could go to Tarshish manned by Hiram&#8217;s#9:21 Hebrew Huram, a variant of Hiram servants. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.</div><div class="p"> 22King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth. 23All the kings of the earth sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart. 24Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift&#8212;articles of silver and gold, and robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules.</div><div class="p"> 25Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses,#9:25 Or charioteers which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. 26He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. 27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. 28Solomon&#8217;s horses were imported from Egypt and from all other countries.</div><div class="s1">Solomon&#8217;s Death</div><div class="p"> 29As for the other events of Solomon&#8217;s reign, 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? 30Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.</div>
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