And it
came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein
Solomon had built the house of the Lord, and his
own house,
02 That the cities which Huram had restored to
Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the
children of Israel to dwell there.
03 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed
against it.
04 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all
the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
05 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and
Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls,
gates, and bars;
06 And Baalath, and all the store cities that
Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the
cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon
desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon,
and throughout all the land of his dominion.
07 As for all the people that were left of the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were
not of Israel,
08 But of their children, who were left after
them in the land, whom the children of Israel
consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay
tribute until this day.
09 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make
no servants for his work; but they were men of
war, and chief of his captains, and captains of
his chariots and horsemen.
10 And these were the chief of king Solomon's
officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare
rule over the people.
11 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
the Lord hath come.
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12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the
Lord on the altar of the Lord, which he had built
before the porch,
13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering
according to the commandment of Moses, on the
sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn
feasts, three times in the year, even in the
feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of
weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
14 And he appointed, according to the order of
David his father, the courses of the priests to
their service, and the Levites to their charges,
to praise and minister before the priests, as the
duty of every day required: the porters also by
their courses at every gate: for so had David the
man of God commanded.
15 And they departed not from the commandment of
the king unto the priests and Levites concerning
any matter, or concerning the treasures.
16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto
the day of the foundation of the house of the
Lord, and until it was finished. So the house of
the Lord was perfected.
17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth,
at the sea side in the land of Edom.
18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his
servants ships, and servants that had knowledge
of the sea; and they went with the servants of
Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred
and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to
king Solomon.
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