2 Chronicles 8

Berean Standard Bible

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After completing the house of the LORD and his palace over a twenty-year period, Solomon rebuilt cities given to him by Hiram, settled Israelites in them, captured Hamath-zobah, and constructed Tadmor and various fortified and store cities. He conscripted the remaining non-Israelite populations as forced laborers while employing Israelites as soldiers, officers, and commanders, and he moved Pharaoh's daughter from the City of David to a newly built palace. Solomon then offered regular burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD and organized the priests, Levites, and gatekeepers according to the commandments of Moses and the ordinances of David. Finally, after the complete finishing of the house of the LORD, Solomon traveled to Ezion-geber and Eloth on the coast of Edom, where Hiram sent ships and experienced sailors who sailed with Solomon's servants to Ophir and brought back 450 talents of gold to the king.

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¹Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace, ²Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there. ³Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it. ⁴He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath. ⁵He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars, ⁶as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion. ⁷As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites)— ⁸their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites had not destroyed—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day. ⁹But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slave labor, because they were his men of war, the leaders of his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry. ¹⁰They were also the chief officers for King Solomon: 250 supervisors. ¹¹Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.” ¹²At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico. ¹³He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. ¹⁴In keeping with the ordinances of his father David, Solomon appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, and the Levites for their duties to offer praise and to minister before the priests according to the daily requirement. He also appointed gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate, for this had been the command of David, the man of God. ¹⁵They did not turn aside from the king’s command regarding the priests or the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries. ¹⁶Thus all the work of Solomon was carried out, from the day the foundation was laid for the house of the LORD until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed. ¹⁷Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of Edom. ¹⁸So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

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