2Chronicles:8

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* And at the end of twenty years after Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house : * He built the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon , and caused the children of Israel to dwell there . * He went also into Emath Suba , and possessed it . * And he built Palmira in the desert , and he built other strong cities in Emath . * And he built Beth-horon the upper , and Beth-horon the nether , walled cities with Rates and bars and locks . * Balaath also and all the strong cities that were Solomon 's , and all the cities of the chariots , and the cities of the horsemen . All that Solomon had a mind , and designed , he built in Jerusalem and in Libanus , and in all the land of his dominion . * All the people that were left of the Hethites , and the Amorrhites , and the Pherezites , and the Hevites , and the Jebusites , that were not of the stock of Israel : * Of their children , and of the posterity , whom the children of Israel had not slain , Solomon made to be the tributaries , unto this day . * But of the children of Israel he set none to serve in the king 's works : for they were men of war , and chief captains , and rulers of his chariots and horsemen . * And all the chief captains of king Solomon 's army were two hundred and fifty , who taught the people . * And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David , to the house which he had built for her . For the king said : My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel , for it is sanctified : because the ark of the Lord came into it . * Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had built before the porch , * That every day an offering might be made on it according to the ordinance of Moses , in the sabbaths , and on the new moons , and on the festival days three times a year , that is to say , 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 offices of the priests in their ministries : and the Levites in their order to give praise , and minister before the priests according to the duty of every day : and the porters in their divisions by gate and gate : for so David the man of God had commanded . * And the priests and Levites departed not from the king 's commandments , as to any thing that he had commanded , and as to the keeping of the treasures . * Solomon had all charges prepared , from the day that he founded the house of the Lord , until the day wherein he finished it . * Then Solomon went to Asiongaber , and to Ailath , on the coast of the Red Sea , which is in the land of Edom . * And Hiram sent him ships by the hands of his servants , and skilful mariners , and they went with Solomon 's servants to Ophir , and they took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold , and brought it to king Solomon .

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