2 Chronicles 8

1 And it^a came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,

2 That the cities which Huram ^bhad restored to Solomon,¹ Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

3 And Solomon went to ^cHamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.

4 And he built ^dTadmor² in the wilderness, and all the store-cities which he built in Hamath.

5 Also he built ^eBeth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

6 And ^fBaalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot-cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and ^gall that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

7 ¶ As for all the people that were left of the ^hHittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,

8 But of their children, who were left after them in the land, ⁱwhom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make ^kto pay tribute until this day.³

9 But ^lof 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 ^mtwo hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

11 ¶ And Solomon ⁿbrought 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,⁴ whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.⁵

12 ¶ Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings unto the LORD on ^othe altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

13 Even after a certain rate every ^pday, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new-moons, and on the solemn feasts, ^qthree 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 ^rcourses 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 ^sso had David the man of God⁶ commanded.

15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning ^tthe treasures.

16 ¶ Now all the work of Solomon was ^uprepared 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 ^xEzion-geber, and to ^yEloth, at the sea-side, in the land of Edom.

18 And Huram ^zsent him, by the hands of his servants, ships,⁷ and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to ^aOphir, and took thence four ^bhundred and fifty talents of gold[≈ 15 tonnes · 15 tons · gold worth ≈ US$2,000 million], and brought them to king Solomon.