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2 Chronicles 8 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Solomon’s Activities and Accomplishments

(1Ki 9:10–28 )

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Now it came about at the end of the twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house (palace),

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:2 - that he built and fortified [fn]the cities which Huram (Hiram) had given to him, and settled the Israelites there.

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Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:4 - He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all his storage cities in Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5 - He also built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars [to lock the gates];

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:6 - and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.

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All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:8 - but were descendants of those who were left in the land, whom the Israelites had not destroyed—Solomon brought them up as forced laborers to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:9 - But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites for his work; they were men of war, his chief captains, and commanders of his chariots and his horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:10 - These were the chief officers of King Solomon, two hundred and fifty [in authority] who ruled over the people.

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Then Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David into the house (palace) he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”

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Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built in front of the porch [of the temple],

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:13 - a certain number every day, offering them up as Moses commanded for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles).

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Now in accordance with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their duties of praise and ministering and serving before the priests as every day required, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at every gate; for David the man of God had so commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:15 - And they did not deviate from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites in any respect or in regard to the storehouses or treasuries.

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Thus all the work of Solomon was carried out from the day the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

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Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the shore of the [Red] Sea in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:18 - And Huram (Hiram) sent him, by his servants, ships and servants familiar with the sea; and they went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to King Solomon.
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These cities were originally given to Hiram king of Tyre by Solomon (1 Kin 9:10-14).
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