2Chr 8
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And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house
of YHWH, and his own house,
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that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the
children of Israel to dwell there.
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And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
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And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in
Hamath.
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Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with
walls, gates, and bars;
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and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his
chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for
his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, that were not of Israel;
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of their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel
consumed not, of them did Solomon raise a levy [of bondservants] to this day.
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But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they
were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his
horsemen.
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And these were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two hundred and fifty, that
bare rule over the people.
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And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house
that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David
king of Israel, because the places are holy, to which the ark of YHWH has come.
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Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings to YHWH on the altar of YHWH, which he had built
before the porch,
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even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses,
on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times in the year,
[even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast
of tabernacles.
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And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the
priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister
before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their
courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
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And they departed not from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites
concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
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Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house
of YHWH, and until it was finished. [So] the house of YHWH was completed.
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Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.
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And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge
of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from
there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.