⁵ The house that I am to build will be great, ^(A)for our God is greater than all gods. ^6 (B)But who is able to build him a house, since ^(C)heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?

5 ^(A)Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.

¹⁰ Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹¹ And there I have set the ark, ^(A)in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with the people of Israel.”

^11 (A)Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the Lord has come are holy.”

¹² Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord ^(B)that he had built before the vestibule, ^13 (C)as the duty of each day required, offering ^(D)according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the ^(E)three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths. ¹⁴ According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed ^(F)the divisions of the priests for their service, ^(G)and the Levites for their offices of praise and ^(H)ministry before the priests ^(I)as the duty of each day required, and ^(J)the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David ^(K)the man of God had commanded. ¹⁵ And they did not turn aside from what the king had commanded the priests and Levites concerning any matter and concerning the treasuries.

¹⁶ Thus was accomplished all the work of Solomon from^[a] the day the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was completed.

¹⁷ Then Solomon went to ^(L)Ezion-geber and ^(M)Eloth on the shore of the sea, in the land of Edom. ¹⁸ And Hiram sent to him by the hand of his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea, and they went to Ophir together with the servants of Solomon and brought from there ^(N)450 talents^[b] of gold and brought it to King Solomon.