1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

2 He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.

3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it.

4 And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;

5 And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;

6 And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

7 As for all the rest of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel:

8 Their men who were still living in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not put an end to, these Solomon put to forced work, as is done to this day;

9 But Solomon did not make use of the children of Israel as servants for his work; they were men of war, his chiefs and his captains, and captains of his war-carriages and his horsemen.

10 Now these were the chief men in authority whom King Solomon had: two hundred and fifty of them, in authority over the people.

11 Then Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her; for he said, I will not have my wife living in the house of David, king of Israel, because those places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.

12 Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,

13 Offering every day what had been ordered by Moses, on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and at the regular feasts three times a year, that is at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents.

14 And he gave the divisions of the priests their places for their work, as ordered by his father David, and to the Levites he gave their work of praise and waiting on the priests, to do what was needed day by day; and he gave the door-keepers their places in turn at every door; for so David, the man of God, had given orders.

15 All the orders given by the king to the priests and Levites, in connection with any business or stores, were done with care.

16 And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

17 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth by the sea in the land of Edom.

18 And Huram sent him, by his servants, ships and experienced seamen, who went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and came back with four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they took to King Solomon.

1 所罗门建造耶和华的殿和自己的王宫， 用了二十年才完成。

2 所罗门又修筑希兰送给他的那些城市， 使以色列人住在那里。

3 所罗门到哈玛琐巴去， 占领了那地方。

4 所罗门又修筑了在旷野的达莫， 和他在哈玛建造的一切贮藏货物的城市。

5 他又建造上伯．和仑和下伯．和仑， 成了有墙、有门和有闩的设防城；

6 又建造巴拉和所罗门拥有的一切贮藏货物的城市， 以及一切屯放战车的城市， 马兵驻扎的城市， 和所罗门在耶路撒冷、黎巴嫩， 以及他统治的全境内喜爱建造的一切。

7 至于以色列人以外的赫人、亚摩利人、比利洗人、希未人和耶布斯人剩下来的人民，

8 他们的子孙仍然留在那地， 以色列人没有消灭他们。于是， 所罗门征召他们作苦工， 直到今日。

9 唯独以色列人， 所罗门没有驱使他们为他的工程作奴仆； 他们作了他的战士、军长、车兵长和马兵长。

10 所罗门王有二百五十名监工， 监督工人。

11 所罗门把法老的女儿从大卫城， 带到他为她建造的宫里去； 因为他说： "我的妻子不可住在以色列王大卫的宫里， 因为耶和华的约柜所到的地方都是神圣的。"

12 那时， 所罗门在耶和华的坛上， 就是在走廊前面他建筑的坛上， 向耶和华献上燔祭，

13 又照着摩西的吩咐， 在安息日、初一和一年三次特定的节期， 就是除酵节、七七节、住棚节， 献上每日当献的。

14 所罗门又照着他父亲大卫所定的， 设立了祭司的班次， 执行他们的事奉， 又派遣利未人， 各守本职， 赞美耶和华， 在祭司面前照着每日的本分事奉。又派守门的按着班次看守各门。因为这是神人大卫的吩咐。

15 王对祭司和利未人所吩咐的， 无论是什么事务， 或是有关库房的事， 他们都没有违抗。

16 从耶和华的殿奠基的日子起， 直到建成， 所罗门的一切工程都进行顺利。这样， 耶和华的殿就完成了。

17 那时， 所罗门往以东地， 到靠近海边的以旬．迦别和以禄去了。

18 希兰派他的臣仆， 把船只和熟悉航海的仆人， 送到所罗门那里。他们和所罗门的仆人一同去到俄斐， 从那里得了一万五千公斤金子， 运到所罗门王那里。