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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's Additional Accomplishments
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of Jehovah and his own house,
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of Jehovah and his own house,
that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
Solomon also fought against the town of Hamath-zobah and conquered it.
And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah, and overcame it.
He rebuilt Tadmor in the wilderness and built towns in the region of Hamath as supply centers.
And he built Tadmor, in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
He fortified the towns of Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, rebuilding their walls and installing barred gates.
And he built upper Beth-Horon and lower Beth-Horon, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for chariots, and the cities for the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and on Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
There were still some people living in the land who were not Israelites, including the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
All the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,
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.
their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel had not destroyed, upon them did Solomon impose tribute-service until this day.
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.
But of the children of Israel, of them did Solomon make no bondmen for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and his horsemen.
King Solomon appointed 250 of them to supervise the people.
And these were the chief of king Solomon's superintendents, two hundred and fifty, that ruled over the people.
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.”
And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of 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 to which the ark of Jehovah has come.
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.
Then Solomon offered up burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch;
even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and at the set feasts, three times in the year, -- at the feast of unleavened bread, and at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of tabernacles.
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.
And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their charges, to praise and serve before the priests, as the duty of every day required; and the doorkeepers by their divisions at every gate: for such was the commandment of David the man of God;
Solomon did not deviate in any way from David’s commands concerning the priests and Levites and the treasuries.
and they did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and the Levites concerning any matter, nor concerning the treasures.
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.
And all the work of Solomon was prepared, to the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah and to its completion. [So] the house of Jehovah was finished.
Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.
And Huram sent him by his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.