2 Chronicles 8
8:1And it came to pass after twenty years, in which Solomon built the house of the lord, and his house,
8:2and the cities which Hiram gave to Solomon, Solomon built them up, and settled there the sons of Israel.
8:3And Solomon came into Hamath Zobah, and prevailed over it.
8:4And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the fortified cities which he built in Hamath.
8:5And he built upper Beth-horon, and lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars;
8:6and Baalath, and all the fortified cities which were unto Solomon, and all the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and as much as Solomon desired according to the desire to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his authority.
8:7All the people left behind from the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who are not of Israel,
8:8but were of their sons being left behind after them in the land of which the sons of Israel did not utterly destroy, and Solomon led them into tribute until this day.
8:9And Solomon did not appoint any of the sons of Israel as servants for all his works in his kingdom, for they were men warriors, and rulers, and mighty men, and rulers of his chariots, and of his horsemen.
8:10And these rulers of the superintendents of king Solomon were fifty and two hundred directing works among the people.
8:11And Solomon led the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David into the house which he built for her. For he said, My wife shall not dwell in the city of David the king of Israel, for it is holy, because the ark of the lord entered there.
8:12Then Solomon offered whole burnt-offerings to the lord upon the altar of the lord, which he built before the temple,
8:13according to the reckoning, day by day, to offer according to the commandments of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and at the months, and in the holidays, three times during the year -- in the holiday of the unleavened breads, and in the holiday of the period of sevens, and in the holiday of the tents.
8:14And he established, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests according to their ministrations, and of the Levites over their watches, to praise and to officiate before the priests, according to the reckoning -- day by day; and of the gatekeepers in their divisions -- for gate by gate; for thus was the commandment of David the man of God.
8:15They did not go by without heeding the commandments of the king, concerning the priests and the Levites, in any matter, and in the treasures.
8:16And all the work of Solomon was prepared from which day the house foundation was laid of the lord, and until of which time it was finished, until of which time Solomon finished the house of the lord.
8:17Then Solomon set out unto Ezion-geber, and unto Eloth, the one by the sea in the land of Edom.
8:18And Hiram sent by the hand of his servants boats, and servants knowing the sea. And they set out with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and they took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and they brought them to king Solomon.