Second Chronicles Chapter 8
1 At the end of 20 years, Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house.
2 As to the cities that Hiram had given to Solomon, Solomon had built them, and he caused the children of Israel to live there.
3 Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities that he built in Hamath.
5 He built Bethhoron the upper and Bethhoron the lower, fenced cities with walls, gates, and bars.
6 He built 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 in all the land of his dominion.
7 All the people who were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,
8 of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel did not destroy, Solomon made them subject to forced labor until this day.
9 From the children of Israel, Solomon did not make any servants for his work. But they were men of war, and commanders of his officers, and commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen.
10 These were the chief of King Solomon's officers, 250 who bore rule over the people.
11 Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her. He said, my wife shall not live in the house of King David of Israel because the places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.
12 Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord that he had built before the porch.
13 The duty of every day required offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts three times each year, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
14 According to the order of David his father, he appointed the divisions 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. And the gatekeepers by their divisions at every gate. For so David the man of God had commanded.
15 They did not depart from the command of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
16 All the work of Solomon was prepared until the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished. And the house of the Lord was complete.
17 Solomon went to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the seaside in the land of Edom.
18 Hiram sent ships to him by the hand of his servants and servants who knew the sea. They went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and took 450 talents of gold from there and brought them to King Solomon.