The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
Let us get up early to the vineyards;\par\tab Let us see whether the vine hath budded,\par\tab {\i And} its blossom is open,\par\tab {\i And} the pomegranates are in flower:\par\tab There will I give thee my love.
Their inward thought is, {\i that} their houses {\i shall continue} for ever,\par\tab {\i And} their dwelling-places to all generations;\par\tab They call their lands after their own names.
And he built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle; in the lowland also, and in the plain: {\i and he had} husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved husbandry.
And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Jehovah hath come.\par
There is a league between me and thee, between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, unto this day.
And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.