Solomon's Activities and Accomplishments
1
Now it
came about at the
end of the
twenty years in
which Solomon had
built the
house of the
LORD and his own
house
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and
Baalath and
all the
storage cities that
Solomon had, and
all the
cities for his
chariots and
cities for his
horsemen, and
all that it
pleased * Solomon to
build in
Jerusalem, in
Lebanon, and in
all the
land under his
rule.
7
All of the
people who were
left of the
Hittites, the
Amorites, the
Perizzites, the
Hivites and the
Jebusites,
who were not of
Israel,
9
But
Solomon did not
make slaves for his
work from the
sons of
Israel ; they were
men of
war, his
chief captains and
commanders of his
chariots and his
horsemen.
11
Then
Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the
city of
David to the
house which 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 where the
ark of the
LORD has
entered."
13
and did so according to the
daily rule,
offering them up according to the
commandment of
Moses, for the
sabbaths, the
new moons and the
three annual * feasts -the
Feast of
Unleavened Bread, the
Feast of
Weeks and the
Feast of
Booths.
14
Now according to the
ordinance of his
father David, he
appointed the
divisions of the
priests for their
service, and the
Levites for their
duties of
praise and
ministering before the
priests according to the
daily rule, and the
gatekeepers by their
divisions at
every gate ; for
David the
man of
God had
so commanded.
15
And they did not
depart from the
commandment of the
king to the
priests and
Levites in
any manner or concerning the
storehouses.
16
Thus
all the
work of
Solomon was
carried out from the
day of the
foundation of the
house of the
LORD, and
until it was
finished. So the
house of the
LORD was
completed.