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Chapter 8 |
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And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the
house of the LORD, and his own house, |
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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. |
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And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built
in Hamath. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 15 | And they
departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites
concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures. |
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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. |
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17 | Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side
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 went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and
took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king
Solomon. |
