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The Second Book of the Chronicles

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- Chapter 8 -

(1 Kings 9:10–28)
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Solomon’s workers took twenty years to build the temple and his palace.
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Then his workers rebuilt the cities that King Hiram had given back to him, and Solomon sent Israelites to live in those cities.
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Solomon’s army then went to the town of Hamathzobah and captured it.
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They also rebuilt walls around the city of Tadmor in the wilderness, and in the region of Hamath, for all the towns where they kept supplies.
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They rebuilt the cities of Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon, and built walls around them with gates and bars for the gates.
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They also rebuilt the city of Baalath and all the cities where supplies were kept, and the cities where Solomon’s chariots and horses were kept. Solomon’s workers built whatever he wanted them to build, in Jerusalem and in Lebanon, and in other places in the area that he ruled.
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Solomon forced people from many other groups who were not Israelites to work for him as if they were slaves. They were people from the Heth, Amor, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus people groups.
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They were descendants of groups whom the Israelites had not completely destroyed. Solomon forced them to become his laborers, and they are still that at this present time.
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But Solomon did not force Israelites to work for him. Israelites became his soldiers and commanders of his chariots and his chariot drivers.
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They were also King Solomon’s chief officials. There were 250 of them, and they supervised the workers.
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Solomon brought his wife, who was the daughter of the king of Egypt, to the place that his workers had built for her in the place outside Jerusalem called the city of David. He said, “I do not want my wife to live in the palace that my father King David’s workers built, because the sacred chest was in that palace for a while, and any place where the sacred chest has been is holy.”
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On the altar that Solomon’s workers had built in front of the entrance to the temple, Solomon brought many offerings that were to be completely burned.
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He did that obeying what sacrifices Moses had declared should be made every day, on the Sabbath days, to celebrate each day on which there was a new moon, and on the three other festivals that were celebrated each year: the Festival of Bread with No Yeast, the Festival of Harvest, and the Festival of Shelters.
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Obeying what his father David had commanded, Solomon appointed the groups of priests for their work, and he appointed the descendants of Levi to lead the people while they sang to praise Yahweh, and while they assisted the priests in their daily work. He also appointed groups of them to guard all the gates, because that was also what David, God’s servant, had commanded.
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The priests and other descendants of Levi obeyed completely everything that the king commanded, including the order to take care of the storerooms.
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They did all the work of building the temple that Solomon told them to do, until it was all completed. In the way they finished building the temple.
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Then some of Solomon’s men went to the cities of Ezion Geber and Elath on the coast of the Sea of Reeds, next to a region that belonged to the Edom people group.
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King Hiram sent him from the city of Tyre some ships that were commanded by his officers. They were men who were experienced sailors. These men went in the ships with Solomon’s men to the region of Ophir and brought back about fifteen metric tons of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
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(1 Kings 9:10–28)
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At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the LORD’s house and his own house,
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Solomon built the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
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Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it.
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He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath.
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Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars;
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and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel—
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of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume—of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.
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But of the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants for his work, but they were men of war, chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
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These were the chief officers of King Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.
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Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city 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 where the LORD’s ark has come are holy.”
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Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the LORD’s altar 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, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times per year, during the feast of unleavened bread, during the feast of weeks, and during the feast of booths.(a)
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He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions 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 divisions at every gate, for David the man of God had so commanded.
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They didn’t depart 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 accomplished from the day of the foundation of the LORD’s house until it was finished. So the LORD’s house was completed.
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Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.
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Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought from there four hundred fifty talents (b) of gold, and brought them to King Solomon.

Footnotes

(a)8:13 or, feast of tents (Sukkot)
(b)8:18 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 450 talents is about 13.5 metric tons
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