2 Chronicles 8
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the LORD and his own palace,
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram had given him, and settled Israelites in them.
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses --whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites).
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these people remaining in the land--whom the Israelites had not destroyed--to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites for his work; they were his fighting men, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his chariots and charioteers.
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10They were also King Solomon's chief officials--two hundred and fifty officials supervising the men.
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, "My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy."
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12On the altar of the LORD that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the LORD,
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13according to the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths, the New Moons and the three annual festivals--the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties, and the Levites to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day's requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God had ordered.
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15They did not deviate from the king's commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16All Solomon's work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid until its completion. So the temple of the LORD was finished.
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the coast of Edom.
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18And Hiram sent him ships commanded by his own men, sailors who knew the sea. These, with Solomon's men, sailed to Ophir and brought back four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
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