8 And after twenty years, once Solomon had built the House of the LORD and his own house,

² then Solomon built the cities that Huram gave to Solomon and had the children of Israel live there.

³ And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and overcame it.

⁴ And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and repaired all the storage cities which he built in Hamath.

⁵ And he built Beth Horon the upper, and Beth Horon the lower, cities defensed with walls, gates and bars,

⁶ also Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and every pleasant place that Solomon had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

⁷ All the people who were left to the Hittites and the Amorites and Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites—who were not of Israel

⁸ but of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel had not consumed—those Solomon made tributaries until this day.

⁹ But Solomon made no children of Israel servants for his work. For they were men of war, and his chief princes, and the captains of his chariots and of his horsemen.

¹⁰ So, these were the chief of the officers whom Solomon had, two hundred fifty who bore rule over the people.

¹¹ Then, Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David, into the house that he had built for her. For he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David, king of Israel. For it is holy, because the Ark of the LORD came to it.”

¹² Then Solomon offered Burnt Offerings to the LORD on the Altar of the LORD which he had built in front of the porch,

¹³ to offer according to the commandment of Moses every day, on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the solemn Feasts, three times in the year: at the Feast of the Unleavened Bread, and at the Feast of the Weeks, and at the Feast of the Tabernacles.

¹⁴ And he set the divisions of the priests to their offices, according to the order of David his father and the Levites in their watches, to praise and minister before the priests every day and the gatekeepers by their divisions, at every gate. For so was the commandment of David, the man of God.

¹⁵ And they did not decline from the commandment of the king concerning the priests and the Levites, touching all things and touching the treasures.

¹⁶ Now, Solomon had made provision for all the work, from the day of the foundation of the House of the LORD until it was finished. The House of the LORD was perfect.

¹⁷ Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Eloth by the Seaside, in the land of Edom.

¹⁸ And by the hands of his servants, Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea. And they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and brought four hundred fifty talents of gold from there, and brought them to King Solomon.