2 Chronicles 8
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And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.

he built

1 Kings 9:17-19 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether…

Tadmor Tadmor, the Palmyra of the Greeks, as we learn from Josephus, a celebrated city of Syria, situated in an oasis, or fertile spot of land, surrounded on all sides by a vast sandy desert, like an island in the midst of the ocean; according to Pliny,

Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
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.
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,
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.
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.
And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
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.
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
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.
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.

the courses

2 Chronicles 5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: …

2 Chronicles 31:2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites …

1 Chronicles 24:1-19 Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; …

Luke 1:5,8 THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest …

the Levites

2 Chronicles 35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, …

1 Chronicles 6:31,32 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the …

1 Chronicles 15:16-22 And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers …

1 Chronicles 16:4-6,42 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark …

1 Chronicles 23:1-32 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king …

1 Chronicles 24:20-31 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; …

1 Chronicles 25:1-31 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service …

Ezra 6:18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their …

the porters

1 Chronicles 9:17 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, …

1 Chronicles 26:1-19 Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah …

so had David the man of God commanded [heb] so was the commandment of David the man of God

Deuteronomy 33:1 And this is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed …

2 Samuel 23:2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue.

1 Kings 13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of …

1 Chronicles 28:19 All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his …

Acts 13:22,36 And when he had removed him, he raised up to them David to be their …

And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
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.
Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
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.

Huram

2 Chronicles 9:10,13 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which …

1 Kings 9:27,28 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge …

1 Kings 10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: …

Hiram
Ophir conjectures respecting the situation of Ophir are endless. Grotius conjectures it to be a part of Arabia called Aphar by Arrian; while Bochart and others have placed it in the island of Ceylon. Calmet supposes it to have been situated in Armenia; but his late editor places it at the head of the Indus. Josephus says that Ophir is in the Indies, called the Gold country; by which he is supposed to mean Chersonesus Aurea, now Malacca, opposite Sumatra; and Le Poivre observes that the inhabitants of these places call their gold mines `ophirs.'

took thence

Ecclesiastes 2:8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of …

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