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

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

It took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the construction of his palace.He built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty wide and thirty high, with four rows of cedar columns supporting trimmed cedar beams.It was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the columns— forty-five beams, fifteen to a row.Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other.All the doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in sets of three, facing each other.He made a colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty wide. In front of it was a portico, and in front of that were pillars and an overhanging roof.He built the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge, and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling.And the palace in which he was to live, set farther back, was similar in design. Solomon also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high- grade stone cut to size and smoothed on their inner and outer faces.The foundations were laid with large stones of good quality, some measuring ten cubits and some eight.Above were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the Lord with its portico. (niv)

The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them.Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom. (niv)

Then they said,“ Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” (niv)

“ Let there be a treaty between me and you,” he said,“ as there was between my father and your father. See, I am sending you a gift of silver and gold. Now break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so he will withdraw from me.” (niv)

Shimei the Ramathite was in charge of the vineyards. Zabdi the Shiphmite was in charge of the produce of the vineyards for the wine vats. (niv)

My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. (niv)

Their tombs will remain their houses forever, their dwellings for endless generations, though they had named lands after themselves. (niv)

I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. (niv)

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied,then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. (niv)

When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do, (niv)

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

Solomon brought 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 David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.” (niv)

At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the Lord and his own palace,Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram had given him, and settled Israelites in them.Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses— whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled. (niv)

He also built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns, because he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain. He had people working his fields and vineyards in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil. (niv)

he said,“ Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?” (niv)

During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King’s Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought,“ I have no son to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day. (niv)

Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he let out his vineyard to tenants. Each was to bring for its fruit a thousand shekels of silver.But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit. (niv)