1 Ao fim de vinte anos, tendo Salomão terminado a Casa do Senhor e a sua própria casa, 2 edificou as cidades que Hirão lhe tinha dado; e fez habitar nelas os filhos de Israel.

3 Depois, foi Salomão a Hamate-Zoba e a tomou. 4 Também edificou a Tadmor no deserto e a todas as cidades-armazéns em Hamate. 5 Edificou também a Bete-Horom, a de cima e a de baixo, cidades fortificadas com muros, portas e ferrolhos; 6 como também a Baalate, e todas as cidades-armazéns que Salomão tinha, e todas as cidades para os carros, e as cidades para os cavaleiros, e tudo o que desejou, enfim, edificar em Jerusalém, no Líbano e em toda a terra do seu domínio.

7 Quanto a todo o povo que restou dos heteus, amorreus, ferezeus, heveus e jebuseus e que não eram de Israel, 8 a seus filhos, que restaram depois deles na terra, os quais os filhos de Israel não puderam destruir totalmente, a esses fez Salomão trabalhadores forçados, até hoje. 9 Porém dos filhos de Israel não fez Salomão escravo algum; eram homens de guerra, seus comandantes, chefes dos seus carros e dos seus cavaleiros; 10 estes eram os principais oficiais que tinha o rei Salomão, duzentos e cinquenta, que presidiam sobre o povo.

11 Salomão fez subir a filha de Faraó da Cidade de Davi para a casa que a ela lhe edificara; porque disse: Minha esposa não morará na casa de Davi, rei de Israel, porque santos são os lugares nos quais entrou a arca do Senhor.

12 Então, Salomão ofereceu holocaustos ao Senhor, sobre o altar que tinha edificado ao Senhor diante do pórtico; 13 e isto segundo o dever de cada dia, conforme o preceito de Moisés, nos sábados, nas Festas da Lua Nova, e nas festas fixas, três vezes no ano: na Festa dos Pães Asmos, na Festa das Semanas e na Festa dos Tabernáculos.

14 Também, segundo a ordem de Davi, seu pai, dispôs os turnos dos sacerdotes nos seus ministérios, como também os dos levitas para os seus cargos, para louvarem a Deus e servirem diante dos sacerdotes, segundo o dever de cada dia, e os porteiros pelos seus turnos a cada porta; porque tal era a ordem de Davi, o homem de Deus. 15 Não se desviaram do que ordenara o rei aos sacerdotes e levitas, em coisa nenhuma, nem acerca dos tesouros. 16 Assim se executou toda a obra de Salomão, desde o dia da fundação da Casa do Senhor até se acabar; e assim se concluiu a Casa do Senhor.

17 Então, foi Salomão a Eziom-Geber e a Elate, à praia do mar, na terra de Edom. 18 Enviou-lhe Hirão, por intermédio de seus servos, navios e marinheiros práticos; foram com os servos de Salomão a Ofir e tomaram de lá quatrocentos e cinquenta talentos de ouro, que trouxeram ao rei Salomão.

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

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

3 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.

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

5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

6 And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

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

8 But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.

9 But 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 captains of his chariots and horsemen.

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

11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh 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 Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD has come.

12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn 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.

14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses 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 porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

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

16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.

17 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.

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