2 Chronicles 8

1Twenty years after Solomon built the house of the Lord and his own house,

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2Solomon built the cities Hiram had given him and settled the sons of Israel there.

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3And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized it.

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4And he built Tadmor in the desert and built all the fortified cities in Hamath.

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5He built Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon, cities fortified with walls, gates, and bars,

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6and Baalath and all the fortified cities Solomon had, and all the chariot cities and the cities of the cavalry, and everything Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all his kingdom.

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7All the people who were left of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of Israel—

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8that is, their sons who were left in the land after them, whom the sons of Israel did not destroy—from these Solomon raised forced labor, as it is done today.

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9But Solomon did not turn the sons of Israel into servants for his kingdom. Some were men of war, captains of his officers, captains of his chariots and his cavalry.

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10Others were chiefs of the officials of King Solomon, two hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.

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11Now Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the house he built for her. For he said, 'My wife shall not dwell in the house of David, king of Israel, because the place where the ark of the Lord has come is holy.'

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12Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord he built before the temple

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13according to the daily rate, offering according to the commandment of Moses, for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the three appointed yearly feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

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14According to the order of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, the Levites for their duties—to praise and serve before the priests—as each day's duty required, and he appointed the gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God commanded.

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15Concerning any matter or the treasuries, they did not depart from the command of the king to the priests and Levites.

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16Now all the work of Solomon was well ordered, from the day of the foundation until Solomon finished the house of the Lord.

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17Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the seacoast, in the land of Edom.

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18And Hiram sent him ships by the hand of his servants, and servants who knew the sea. They went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, where they acquired four hundred fifty gold talents and brought them to King Solomon.

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