1 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built
the house of Yahweh, and his own house, 2 that the cities which Huram had
given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to
dwell there. 3 Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he
built in Hamath. 5 Also he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the
lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars; 6 and Baalath, and
all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots,
and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for
his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his
dominion. 7 As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were
not of Israel; 8 of their children who were left after them in the land,
whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them did Solomon raise a levy
of bondservants to this day. 9 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 rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. 10 These
were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two hundred fifty, who ruled
over the people. 11 Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the
city of David to 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 Yahweh has come. 12 Then Solomon offered
burnt-offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, which he had built before
the porch, 13 even as the duty of every day required, offering according
to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on
the set feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents.
14 He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the
courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to
praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day
required; the doorkeepers also by their courses at every gate: for so had
David the man of God commanded. 15 They didn’t depart from the commandment
of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning
the treasures. 16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of
the foundation of the house of Yahweh, and until it was finished. So
the house of Yahweh was completed. 17 Then went Solomon to Ezion Geber,
and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom. 18 Huram sent him by
the hands of his servants ships, and servants who had knowledge of the sea;
and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there
four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
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