2 Chronicles 8:12

2 Chronicles 8:1-18

¹And it happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of YHWH and his own house, ²that the cities that Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and he settled the sons of Israel there. ³Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and prevailed against it. ⁴He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities that he built in Hamath. ⁵He built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars, ⁶and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horsemen, and all the desire of Solomon, what he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. ⁷All the people who were left of the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who were not of Israel, ⁸of their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel had not made an end of, Solomon raised them up for forced labor, to this day. ⁹But of the sons of Israel Solomon did not make slaves for his work, for they were men of war, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his chariots and of his horsemen. ¹⁰These were the chiefs of the prefects that King Solomon had: two hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people. ¹¹Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, “No wife of mine shall live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of YHWH has come are holy.” ¹²Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to YHWH on the altar of YHWH that he had built before the portico, ¹³according to what was due each day, offering up according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, at the new moons, and at the appointed times, three times a year: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. ¹⁴According to the rule of David his father he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their posts, to praise and to minister in front of the priests according to what was due each day, and the gatekeepers in their divisions for gate by gate, for so was the commandment of David, the man of Elohim. ¹⁵They did not turn aside from the commandment of the king concerning the priests and the Levites in any matter, or concerning the treasuries. ¹⁶All the work of Solomon was prepared until the day of the foundation of the house of YHWH and until it was finished; the house of YHWH was complete. ¹⁷Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth, on the shore of the sea in the land of Edom. ¹⁸Huram sent him, by the hand of his servants, ships and servants who knew the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to King Solomon.

1 Kings 9:10-28

¹⁰And it happened, at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of YHWH and the house of the king ¹¹— Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with timber of cedar and timber of cypress and with gold, according to all his pleasure — that then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. ¹²And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, and they were not right in his eyes. ¹³And he said, “What are these cities that you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Cabul to this day. ¹⁴And Hiram had sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold. ¹⁵And this is the matter of the forced labor that King Solomon raised to build the house of YHWH and his house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer. ¹⁶Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanite who lived in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon. ¹⁷And Solomon built Gezer and Lower Beth-horon, ¹⁸and Baalath and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, ¹⁹and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for chariots, and the cities for horsemen, and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion. ²⁰All the people who were left of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who were not of the sons of Israel, ²¹their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were not able to devote to destruction, Solomon raised them to be subject to forced labor until this day. ²²But of the sons of Israel Solomon did not make a slave, for they were the men of war, and his servants, and his officials, and his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and of his horsemen. ²³These were the chiefs of the prefects who were over the work for Solomon, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people who did the work. ²⁴But the daughter of Pharaoh went up from the city of David to her house that Solomon had built for her; then he built the Millo. ²⁵And Solomon offered three times in the year burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he had built for YHWH, and he offered up in smoke with it, on that which was before YHWH; and he completed the house. ²⁶And King Solomon made ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth, on the shore of the Sea of Reeds, in the land of Edom. ²⁷And Hiram sent in the ships his servants, men of ships, who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon. ²⁸And they came to Ophir and took from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon.