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Chapter 8 |
| 1 | And it came to
pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the
LORD, and his own house, |
| 2 | That the cities which Huram had restored to
Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell
there. |
| 3 |
And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against
it. |
| 4 |
And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities,
which he built in Hamath. |
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5 | Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and
Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; |
| 6 |
And 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 throughout all the land of his
dominion. |
| 7
| As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and
the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which
were not of Israel, |
| 8 | But of their children, who were left after
them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon
make to pay tribute until this day. |
| 9 | 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 captains of his chariots and horsemen. |
| 10 | And
these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty,
that bare rule over the people. |
| 11 | And Solomon brought up the
daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto 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, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath
come. |
| 12 |
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the
altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch, |
| 13 | Even after a
certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the
sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn 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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14 | And he appointed, according to the
order of David his father, the courses 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: the porters also by their courses at every gate:
for so had David the man of God commanded. |
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15 | And they departed not
from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any
matter, or concerning the treasures. |
| 16 | Now all the work of Solomon
was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until
it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected. |
| 17 | Then
went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of
Edom. |
| 18 |
And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and
servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of
Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and
brought them to king Solomon. |
