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Solomon’s Other Activities
At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the Lord and his own palace,
At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the Lord and his own palace,
Solomon’s Many Achievements
It took Solomon twenty years to build the LORD’s Temple and his own royal palace. At the end of that time,
It took Solomon twenty years to build the LORD’s Temple and his own royal palace. At the end of that time,
Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.
Solomon also fought against the town of Hamath-zobah and conquered it.
He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.
He rebuilt Tadmor in the wilderness and built towns in the region of Hamath as supply centers.
He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,
He fortified the towns of Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, rebuilding their walls and installing barred gates.
There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites).
There were still some people living in the land who were not Israelites, including the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these people remaining in the land — whom the Israelites had not destroyed — to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.
These were descendants of the nations whom the people of Israel had not destroyed. So Solomon conscripted them for his labor force, and they serve as forced laborers to this day.
But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites for his work; they were his fighting men, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his chariots and charioteers.
But Solomon did not conscript any of the Israelites for his labor force. Instead, he assigned them to serve as fighting men, officers in his army, commanders of his chariots, and charioteers.
They were also King Solomon’s chief officials — two hundred and fifty officials supervising the men.
King Solomon appointed 250 of them to supervise the people.
Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.”
Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh’s daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built for her. He said, “My wife must not live in King David’s palace, for the Ark of the LORD has been there, and it is holy ground.”
On the altar of the Lord that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord,
Then Solomon presented burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar he had built for him in front of the entry room of the Temple.
according to the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths, the New Moons and the three annual festivals — the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.
In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties, and the Levites to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day’s requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God had ordered.
In assigning the priests to their duties, Solomon followed the regulations of his father, David. He also assigned the Levites to lead the people in praise and to assist the priests in their daily duties. And he assigned the gatekeepers to their gates by their divisions, following the commands of David, the man of God.
They did not deviate from the king’s commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.
Solomon did not deviate in any way from David’s commands concerning the priests and Levites and the treasuries.
All Solomon’s work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid until its completion. So the temple of the Lord was finished.
So Solomon made sure that all the work related to building the Temple of the LORD was carried out, from the day its foundation was laid to the day of its completion.
Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the coast of Edom.