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 Depois de vinte anos, durante os quais Salomão construiu o templo do Senhor e o seu próprio palácio,
2 ele reconstruiu as cidades que Hirão lhe tinha dado, e nelas estabeleceu israelitas.
3 Depois atacou Hamate-Zobá e a conquistou.
4 Também reconstruiu Tadmor, no deserto, e todas as cidades-armazéns que havia construído em Hamate.
5 Reconstruiu Bete-Horom Alta e Bete-Horom Baixa, cidades fortificadas com muros, portas e trancas,
6 e também Baalate e todas as cidades-armazéns que possuía, e todas as cidades onde ficavam os seus carros e os seus cavalos. Construiu tudo o que desejou em Jerusalém, no Líbano e em todo o território que governou.
7 Todos os não israelitas, descendentes dos hititas, dos amorreus, dos ferezeus, dos heveus e dos jebuseus,
8 que não tinham sido mortos pelos israelitas, Salomão recrutou para o trabalho forçado, como continuam até hoje.
9 Mas Salomão não obrigou nenhum israelita a trabalhos forçados; eles eram seus homens de guerra, chefes de seus capitães, comandantes dos seus carros e condutores de carros.
10 Também eram israelitas os principais funcionários do rei Salomão, duzentos e cinqüenta funcionários que supervisionavam os trabalhadores.
11 Salomão levou a filha do faraó da cidade de Davi para o palácio que ele havia construído para ela, pois dissera: "Minha mulher não deve morar no palácio de Davi, rei de Israel, pois os lugares onde entrou a arca do Senhor são sagrados".
12 Sobre o altar do Senhor, que havia construído diante do pórtico, Salomão passou a sacrificar holocaustos ao Senhor,
13 conforme as determinações de Moisés acerca das ofertas diárias e dos sábados, das luas novas e das três festas anuais: a festa dos pães sem fermento, a festa das semanas e a festa das cabanas.
14 De acordo com a ordem de seu pai Davi, designou os grupos dos sacerdotes para as suas tarefas, e os levitas para conduzirem o louvor e ajudarem os sacerdotes, conforme as determinações diárias. Também designou, por divisões, os porteiros das várias portas, conforme o que Davi, homem de Deus, tinha ordenado.
15 Todas as ordens dadas pelo rei aos sacerdotes e aos levitas, inclusive as ordens relativas aos tesouros, foram seguidas à risca.
16 Todo o trabalho de Salomão foi executado, desde o dia em que foram lançados os alicerces do templo do Senhor até seu término. Assim foi concluído o templo do Senhor.
17 Depois Salomão foi a Eziom-Geber e a Elate, no litoral de Edom.
18 E Hirão enviou-lhe navios comandados por seus próprios marinheiros, homens que conheciam o mar. Eles navegavam com os marinheiros de Salomão até Ofir, e de lá trouxeram quinze toneladas e setecentos e cinqüenta quilos de ouro para o rei Salomão.