2 Chronicles 8

1And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of Jehovah, and his own house,

1After twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the LORD and his own royal palace,

2that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

2Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram had given to him and settled Israelites in them.

3And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.

3Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

4And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.

4He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the storage cities he had established in Hamath.

5Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

5He rebuilt Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, making them fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars.

6and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

6He also built Baalath and all his storage cities, as well as the cities for his chariots and horses. He built everything he wanted to in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and throughout the entire land he ruled.

7As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, that were not of Israel;

7There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites; these were people who were not Israelites.

8of their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants unto this day.

8Solomon used the descendants of these people who remained in the land—those the Israelites had not destroyed—as forced laborers, and they remain so to this day.

9But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

9But Solomon did not make any of the Israelites slaves for his work. Instead, they were his soldiers, his chief officers, and the commanders of his chariots and horsemen.

10And these were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

10These were King Solomon’s 250 senior officials who supervised the workers.

11And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that 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, whereunto the ark of Jehovah hath come.

11Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. He said, 'My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because any place where the chest of the LORD has entered is holy.'

12Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings unto Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch,

12Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD that he had built in front of the temple porch.

13even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

13He followed the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths, the New Moon celebrations, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters.

14And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

14Following the rules of his father David, he assigned the groups of priests to their duties and the Levites to their tasks of leading praise and helping the priests with the daily work. He also assigned the gatekeepers to their groups at each gate, because this is what David, the man of God, had commanded. provincial

15And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

15They did not deviate from the king’s commands concerning the priests, the Levites, or any other matters, including the handling of the treasuries.

16Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and until it was finished. So the house of Jehovah was completed.

16So all of Solomon’s work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid until it was finished. The temple of the LORD was now complete.

17Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, on the sea-shore in the land of Edom.

17Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and Eloth on the coast of Edom.

18And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

18Huram sent him ships commanded by his own officers and manned by experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s men to Ophir and brought back about seventeen tons of gold to King Solomon.