Solomon's Other Buildings and Relations with Hiram
2 Chronicles 8:1-18
1It was at the end of twenty years that Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house.2As for the cities that Hiram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them and settled the sons of Israel there.3Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and strengthened his hold on it.4He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities that he built in Hamath.5He built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, cities of siege with walls, doors, and a bar.6He built Baalath and all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, all the chariot cities, the cities for the horsemen, and every place Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.7All the people who remained of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel—8from their descendants who were left after them in the land and whom the sons of Israel had not destroyed—Solomon conscripted them as forced laborers to this day.9But Solomon did not make any of the sons of Israel servants for his work; they were his men of war, his officers, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.10These were the commanders of the garrisons who stood in service to King Solomon: two hundred and fifty who ruled over the people.11Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house he had built for her, for he said, "No wife of mine shall dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy."12Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD that he had built in front of the Hall.13He offered them day by day according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the three annual appointed festivals: the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.14In accordance with the ordinance of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests to their service and the Levites to their duties, to praise and to minister before the priests according to the daily requirement, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.15They did not turn aside from the king's command concerning the priests, the Levites, or any matter, including the treasuries.16All the work of Solomon was completed from the day the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid until it was finished.17Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the shore of the sea in the land of Edom.18Hiram sent ships by the hand of his servants, men who knew the sea, to him; they went with Solomon's servants to Ophir, took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought it to King Solomon.