The Lord Appears to Solomon

3 Solomon made an alliance^[a] with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying Pharaoh’s daughter.^(A) Solomon brought her to the city of David^(B) until he finished building his palace,^(C) the Lord’s temple,^(D) and the wall surrounding Jerusalem.^(E)

Solomon’s Other Activities

²⁴ Pharaoh’s daughter moved from the city of David^(A) to the house that Solomon had built for her;^(B) he then built the terraces.^(C)

¹¹ Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house he had built for her,^(A) for he said, “My wife must not live in the house^[a] of King David of Israel because the places the ark of the Lord has come into are holy.”