1 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the LORD and his own palace,2 Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram "had given him, and settled Israelites in them.3 Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.4 He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.5 He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,6 as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses "—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.7 There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites).8 Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these people remaining in the land —whom the Israelites had not destroyed —to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.9 But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites for his work; they were his fighting men, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his chariots and charioteers.10 They were also King Solomon's chief officials —two hundred and fifty officials supervising the men.11 Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, "My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy."12 On the altar of the LORD that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the LORD,13 according to the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths, the New Moons and the three annual festivals —the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.14 In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties, and the Levites to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day's requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God had ordered.15 They did not deviate from the king's commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.16 All Solomon's work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid until its completion. So the temple of the LORD was finished.17 Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the coast of Edom.18 And Hiram sent him ships commanded by his own men, sailors who knew the sea. These, with Solomon's men, sailed to Ophir and brought back four hundred and fifty talents "of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

1 Expletis autem viginti annis postquam dificavit Salomon domum Domini et domum suam, 2 civitates quas dederat Hiram Salomoni, dificavit, et habitare ibi fecit filios Isral. 3 Abiit quoque in Emath Suba, et obtinuit eam. 4 Et dificavit Palmyram in deserto, et alias civitates munitissimas dificavit in Emath. 5 Exstruxitque Bethoron superiorem, et Bethoron inferiorem, civitates muratas habentes portas et vectes et seras : 6 Balaath etiam et omnes urbes firmissimas qu fuerunt Salomonis, cunctasque urbes quadrigarum, et urbes equitum. Omnia qucumque voluit Salomon atque disposuit, dificavit in Jerusalem, et in Libano, et in universa terra potestatis su. 7 Omnem populum qui derelictus fuerat de Hethis, et Amorrhis, et Pherezis, et Hevis, et Jebusis, qui non erant de stirpe Isral, 8 de filiis eorum, et de posteris, quos non interfecerant filii Isral, subjugavit Salomon in tributarios, usque in diem hanc. 9 Porro de filiis Isral non posuit ut servirent operibus regis : ipsi enim erant viri bellatores, et duces primi, et principes quadrigarum et equitum ejus. 10 Omnes autem principes exercitus regis Salomonis fuerunt ducenti quinquaginta, qui erudiebant populum. 11 Filiam vero Pharaonis transtulit de civitate David in domum quam dificaverat ei. Dixit enim rex : Non habitabit uxor mea in domo David regis Isral, eo quod sanctificata sit : quia ingressa est in eam arca Domini. 12 Tunc obtulit Salomon holocausta Domino super altare Domini, quod exstruxerat ante porticum, 13 ut per singulos dies offerretur in eo juxta prceptum Moysi in sabbatis et in calendis, et in festis diebus, ter per annum, id est, in solemnitate azymorum, et in solemnitatem hebdomadarum, et in solemnitate tabernaculorum. 14 Et constituit juxta dispositionem David patris sui officia sacerdotum in ministeriis suis, et Levitas in ordine suo, ut laudarent et ministrarent coram sacerdotibus juxta ritum uniuscujusque diei, et janitores in divisionibus suis per portam et portam : sic enim prceperat David homo Dei. 15 Nec prtergressi sunt de mandatis regis tam sacerdotes quam Levit, ex omnibus qu prceperat, et in custodiis thesaurorum. 16 Omnes impensas prparatas habuit Salomon ex eo die quo fundavit domum Domini usque in diem quo perfecit eam. 17 Tunc abiit Salomon in Asiongaber, et in Ailath ad oram maris Rubri, qu est in terra Edom. 18 Misit autem ei Hiram per manus servorum suorum naves, et nautas gnaros maris, et abierunt cum servis Salomonis in Ophir, tuleruntque inde quadringenta quinquaginta talenta auri, et attulerunt ad regem Salomonem.