King Solomon makes a treaty with Hiram king of Tyre, who supplied David with materials to build his palace, not Solomon will be getting supplies from him to build the temple as well as his new palace, a new palace for his first wife, the daughter of the Pharoah king of Egypt, as well as a colonnade, a throne hall and hall of justice. It took Solomon seven years to build the temple and 14 years to build everything else. He hired Huram, a skilled craftsman in bronze to come from Tyre and help build the temple. Once it was completed, Solomon called all the leaders throughout Israel, and the priests carried the ark to it's new home in the temple. The other Levites and priests brought all the other items from the tabernacle which was in Zion, the City of David, into the Temple in Jerusalem. When the ark was in it's place in the Holy of Holies, or the Most Holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim, the cloud filled the temple, and the priests could not perform their duties because the glory of the Lord filled that place. Solomon blessed the people, and then he turned before the altar of the Lord and prayed, and finally he turned and blessed the people again. The main point of these blessings and prayers was praise to the Lord for fulfilling His promise to David, and then a request that the Lord would continue keeping his word that one from David's line would continually be on the throne. Solomon then acknowledge that the Lord's blessing was dependent upon the obedience of the people. He also stated that he knew that all people sin against the Lord, but if they turn back to Him, wherever they are, or whatever they have done, that the Lord would hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land. The people celebrated for 14 days, and then Solomon sent them home. They blessed king Solomon and then went home "joyful and glad in heart for all the good things the Lord had done for his servant David and His people Israel."
