II Chronicles 8 · דברי הימים ב

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, during which Shelomo had built the house of the Lord, and his own house,

that the cities which Ḥuram had given Shelomo, Shelomo built them, and caused the children of Yisra᾽el to dwell there.

And Shelomo went to Ḥamat-żova, and prevailed against it.

And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Ḥamat.

And he built the upper Bet-ĥoron, and the lower Bet-ĥoron, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

and Ba῾alat, and all the store cities that Shelomo had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Shelomo desired to build in Yerushalayim, and in the Levanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

As for all the people who were left of the Ḥitti, and the Emori, and the Perizzi, and the Ḥivvi, and the Yevusi, who were not of Yisra᾽el;

of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Yisra᾽el did not wipe out, Shelomo raised a levy of them until this day.

But of the children of Yisra᾽el of whom Shelomo did not make servants for his work, (for they were men of war, and chiefs of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen,)

even of these were the chiefs of king Shelomo’s officers, two hundred and fifty, who bore rule over the people.

And Shelomo brought up the daughter of Par῾o out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David, king of Yisra᾽el, because the places to which the ark of the Lord has come are holy.

Then Shelomo offered burnt offerings to the Lord, on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch,

after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moshe, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the appointed seasons, three times in the year, on the feast of unleavened bread, and on the feast of weeks, and on the feast of booths.

And according to the form prescribed by David his father, he set the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the gatekeepers also by their divisions at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

And they did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

So all the work of Shelomo was accomplished from the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was completed.

Then Shelomo went to ῾Eżyon-gever, and to Elot, at the sea side in the land of Edom.

And Ḥuram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Shelomo to Ofir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Shelomo.