2 Chronicles 8

2 Chronicles 8:1 At the end of twenty years during which Solomon had built Yahveh’s temple and his palace —

2 Chronicles 8:2 Solomon had rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given him and settled the Israelites there.

2 Chronicles 8:3 Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and caught it.

2 Chronicles 8:4 He built Tadmor in the open country along with all the storage cities that he built in Hamath.

2 Chronicles 8:5 He built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon- fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars.

2 Chronicles 8:6 Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, all the chariot cities, the cavalry cities, and everything Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or anywhere else in the land of his dominion.

2 Chronicles 8:7 As for all the peoples who survived[1] of the Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not from Israel —

2 Chronicles 8:8 Their descendants who survived in the land after them, those the Israelites had not wholly destroyed,- Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is this way today.

2 Chronicles 8:9 But Solomon did not consign the Israelites to be slaves for his work; they were soldiers, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his chariots and his cavalry.

2 Chronicles 8:10 These were King Solomon’s deputies: 250 captains of the people.

2 Chronicles 8:11 Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the house of King David of Israel because the places the ark of Yahveh has come into are sacred.”

2 Chronicles 8:12 At that time, Solomon offered ascending offerings to Yahveh on Yahveh’s altar he had made in the face of the portico.

2 Chronicles 8:13 He followed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed festivals: the Festival of Matzah,[2] The Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Huts.[3]

2 Chronicles 8:14 According to the judgments of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, of the Levites over their responsibilities to offer praise and to minister before the priests following the daily requirement, and of the gatekeepers by their divisions with respect to each temple gate, for this had been the command of David, the man of God.

2 Chronicles 8:15 They did not turn aside from the king’s command regarding the priests and the Levites concerning any matter or concerning the treasuries.

2 Chronicles 8:16 All of Solomon’s work was carried out from the day the foundation was laid for Yahveh’s temple until it was finished. So Yahveh’s temple was completed.

2 Chronicles 8:17 At that time, Solomon went to Ezion-geber and Eloth on the seashore in the land of Edom.

2 Chronicles 8:18 So Hiram sent ships to him by his slaves, along with crews of experienced seamen. They went with Solomon’s slaves to Ophir, took seventeen tons of gold from there, and delivered it to King Solomon.

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[1] יָתַר = survive, reserve, rest. 2 Chronicles 8:7, 8; 31:10.

[2] מַצָּה = Matzah (unleavened bread). 2 Chronicles 8:13; 30:13, 21; 35:17.

[3] סֻכָּה = hut. 2 Chronicles 8:13.

links:

serve Him first – Devotions
serving out of faith

The 2 Chronicles shelf in Jeff’s library