1 And it 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 had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused
the children of Israel to dwell there.
3 And
Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
4 And
he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in
Hamath.
5 Also
he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with
walls, gates, and bars;
6 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.
7 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,
8 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.
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 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.
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.
