II Chronicles Chapter 8

II Chronicles Chapter 8
1 And after twenty year when Solomon
had built the house of the Lord, and his
own house,
2 Then Solomon built the cities that
Huram gave to Solomon, and caused the
children of Israel to dwell there.
3 And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah,
and overcame it.
4 And he built Tadmor in the
wilderness, and repaired all the cities of
store which he built in Hamath.
5 And he built Beth-horon the upper, and
Beth-horon the nether, cities defensed
with walls, gates and bars:
6 Also Baalath, and all the cities of store
that Solomon had, and all the chariot
cities, and the cities of the horsemen,
and every pleasant place that Solomon
had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in
Lebanon, and throughout all the land of
his dominion.
7 And all the people that were left of the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, which were not of Israel, 8
But of their children which were left
after them in the land, whom the children
of Israel had not consumed, even them
did Solomon make tributaries until this
day.
9 But of the children of Israel did
Solomon make no servants for his work:
for they were men of war, and his chief
princes, and the captains of his chariots
and of his horsemen.
10 So these were the chief of the officers
which Solomon had, even two hundred
and fifty that bear rule over the people.
11 Then Solomon brought up the
daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of
David, into the house that he had built
for her: for he said, My wife shall not
dwell in the house of David king of
Israel: for it is holy, because that the ark
of the Lord came unto it.
12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings
unto the Lord, on the altar of the Lord,
which he had built before the porch,
13 To offer according to the
commandment of Moses every day, in
the Sabbaths, and in the new moons, and
in the solemn feasts, three times in the
year, that is, in the feast of the
unleavened bread, and in the feast of the
weeks, and in the feast of the
tabernacles.
14 And he set the courses of the priests
to their offices, according to the order of
David his father, and the Levites in their
watches, for to praise and minister
before the priests every day, and the
porters by their courses, at every gate:
for so was the commandment of David
the man of God.
15 And they declined not from the
commandment of the king, concerning the
priests and the Levites, touching all
things, and touching the treasures. 16
Now Solomon had made provision for
all the work, from the day of the
foundation of the house of the Lord, until
it was finished: so the house of the Lord
was perfect.
17 Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber,
and to Eloth by the seaside 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 brought thence four hundred and fifty
talents of gold, and brought them to king
Solomon.