2Chronicles:8

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* And it came to pass at the end of twenty years , when Solomon had built the house of the Lord , and his own house , * That the cities which Churam had restored to Solomon , Solomon built them , and caused the children of Israel to dwell there . * And Solomon went to Chamath –zobah , and prevailed against it . * And he built Thadmor in the wilderness , and all the treasure –cities , which he built in Chamath . * And he built the upper Beth –choron , and the lower Beth –choron , fortified cities , with walls , gates , and bars ; * And Ba ’alath , and all the treasure –cities that Solomon had , and all the cities for chariots , and the cities for horsemen , and all the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem , and in the Lebanon , and throughout all the land of his dominion . * All the people that were left of the Hittites , and the Emorites , and the Perizzites , and the Hivites , and the Jebusites , who were not of Israel , * Out of their children , who were left after them in the land , whom the children of Israel had not destroyed ––these did Solomon levy as tributary until this day . * Yet of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen for his work ; but they were men of war , and chiefs of his captains ; and officers of his chariots and of his horsemen . * And these were the chiefs of the superintendents whom king Solomon had , two hundred and fifty , who ruled over the people . * And the daughter of Pharaoh did Solomon bring up out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her ; for he said , No wife of mine shall dwell in a house of David the king of Israel , because they are holy , because there came unto them the ark of the Lord . * Then did Solomon offer burnt –offerings unto the Lord on the altar of the Lord , which he had built before the porch , * Even according to what was the due of day on its day , offering according to the commandment of Moses , on the sabbaths , and on the new –moons , and on the stated festivals , three times in the year , on the feast of unleavened bread , and on the feast of weeks , and on the feast of tabernacles . * And he stationed , according to the prescription of David his father , the divisions of the priests at their service , and the Levites at their stations , to praise and minister next to the priests , in the requirement of every day on its day , and the gate –keepers in their divisions at every gate ; for so was the charge of David the man of God . * And they departed not from the charge of the king concerning the priests and Levites respecting every matter , and respecting the treasuries . * And was all the work of Solomon successful from the day of founding the house of the Lord , even until it was finished . was perfected the house of the Lord . * Then went Solomon to ‘Ezyon –geber , and to Eloth , at the sea –shore in the land of Edom . * And Churam sent him by means of his servants ships , and servants that had knowledge of the sea ; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir , and they fetched away thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold , and brought the same to king Solomon .

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