And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Now Absalom, while he was yet alive, had taken and set up for himself the pillar near which he was taken, and set it up so as to have the pillar in the king's valley; for he said he had no son to keep his name in remembrance: and he called the pillar, Absalom's Hand, until this day.

the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honor of my glory?

lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built nice houses, and dwelt in them;

[that] you should be exalted in your heart, and forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

And Solomon built a house for himself in thirteen years.

And he built the house with the wood of Lebanon; its length [was] a hundred cubits, and its breadth [was] fifty cubits, and its height [was] of thirty cubits, and [it was made] with three rows of cedar pillars, and the pillars had sidepieces of cedar.

And their house where he would dwell [had] one court communicating with these according to this work; and [he built] the house for the daughter of Pharaoh whom Solomon had taken, according to this porch.

founded with large costly stones, stones of ten cubits and eight cubits [long].

[There were] three rows of hewn [stones] round about the great hall, and a row of sculptured cedar: and Solomon finished all his house.

And it came to pass when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the work of Solomon, whatever he wished to perform,

Make a covenant between me and you, and between my father and your father: Behold, I have sent forth to you gold and silver [for] gifts: come, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may go up from me.

The throne [had] six steps, and calves in bold relief to the throne behind it, and sidepieces on either hand of the place of the seat, and two lions standing by the sidepieces,

and twelve lions standing there on the six steps on either side: it was not so done [like that] in any [other] kingdom.

And it came to pass after twenty years, in which Solomon built the house of the Lord, and his own house,

And Solomon came to Hamath Zobah, and fortified it.

And he built Beth Horon the Upper, and Beth Horon the Lower, strong cities-they had walls, gates, and bars;

And their tombs are their houses forever, [even] their tabernacles to all generations; they have called their lands after their own names.

And over the fields [was] Shimei the Ramathite; and over the treasures of wine in the fields [was] Zabdi the son of Sephni.

And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he had many cattle in the low country and in the plain; and vinedressers in the mountain country and in Carmel, for he was a farmer.

My kinsman is to me a cluster of camphor in the vineyards of En Gedi.

Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, if the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give you my breasts.

Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he leased his vineyard to keepers; everyone was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.

My vineyard, even mine, is before me; Solomon [shall have] a thousand, and they that keep its fruit two hundred.

Now I will sing to [my] Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. [My] Beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place.