Section 63
And then the elders of Yisra'el made answer and said to him, “ May your good pleasure be done, and the good pleasure of the Yahuah Elohim! As for us, none of us will transgress your word, and we will not inform any other people that Tsiyon has been taken away from us.” And they established this Kidan in the House of Elohim - the elders of Yisra'el with their King Shəlomah to this day. And Shəlomah lived [thus] for eleven years after the taking away of Tsiyon from him, and then his heart turned aside from the love of Elohim, and he forgot his wisdom, through his excessive love of omen. And he loved very greatly the daughter of Pharaoh, the king of Mitsrayim, whose name was Makshara, and he brought her into the house which he had made; and there were figures of the sun, moon, and stars in the roof of it, and it was illumined by night as brightly as by day. Its beams were made of brass, and its roof of silver, and its The Nobles of Yisra'el agree with the King panels (?) of lead, and its walls of stone, red with black, and brown with white [and] green; and its floor was of blocks of sapphire stone and sardius. And he used to go and dwell within it through his love for his house and his wife Makshara, the daughter of Pharaoh the king of E gypt. Now the queen possessed certain idols wdiich her father had given her to bow down before, and because, when Shəlomah saw her sacrificing to them and worshipping them, he did not rebuke her or forsake her, Elohim was wroth with him, and made him to forget his wisdom. And she multiplied her sacrifices, and her worship, and her folly, according to the stupidity of the Egyptians, and all the people of her house worshipped the idols, and learned the foolish service of idols. And enjoying the pleasure of their foolish service they worshipped with the daughter of Pharaoh, and the children of Yisra'el joined themselves to her, and the women and their handmaidens joined themselves to her in the worship and foolish service of idols. And Shəlomah himself found pleasure in hearing their foolish service and folly. And when she saw that he loved her, and hearkened, and held his peace, and asked many questions about the foolish service of the gods of the Egyptians, she made herself exceedingly agreeable to him, and she spoke to him with honeyed words, and with the tender speech of women, and with the sweet smile that accompanieth the presentment of an evil deed, and with the turning of the face and the assumption of a look of good intent, and with the nodding of the head. With actions of this kind she caused his heart to turn away from his good intent, and she enticed him to the evil of her work, wishing to drag him down into the folly of the foolish service of idols through carelessness. And as the deep sea draweth down into its depths the man who cannot swim, until the water overwhelmeth him and destroyeth his life, even so did that woman wish to submerge Shəlomah the King.