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8:2 Solomon <08010> rebuilt <01129> the cities <05892> that <0834> Huram <02361> had given <05414> him <08010> and settled <03427> Israelites <03478> <01121> there <08033>. 8:3 Solomon <08010> went <01980> to Hamath Zobah <02578> and seized <02388> it. 8:4 He built up <01129> Tadmor <08412> in the wilderness <04057> and all <03605> the storage <04543> cities <05892> he had built <01129> in Hamath <02574>. 8:5 He made <01129> upper <05945> Beth Horon <01032> and lower <08481> Beth Horon <01032> fortified <04692> cities <05892> with walls <02346> and barred <01280> gates <01817>, 8:6 and built up Baalath <01191>, all <03605> the storage <04543> cities <05892> that <0834> belonged <01961> to him <08010>, and all <03605> the cities <05892> where chariots <07393> and horses <06571> were kept. He <08010> built <01129> whatever <02837> <03605> he wanted <02836> in Jerusalem <03389>, Lebanon <03844>, and throughout <03605> his entire <0776> kingdom <04474>. 8:7 Now several <03605> non-Israelite <03478> <03808> peoples <05971> were left <03498> in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including <04480> the Hittites <02850>, Amorites <0567>, Perizzites <06522>, Hivites <02340>, and Jebusites <02983>. 8:8 Their descendants <01121> remained <03498> in the land <0776> (the Israelites <03478> <01121> were unable <03808> to wipe <03615> them out <03615>). Solomon <08010> conscripted <05927> them for his work crews <04522> and they continue <05704> in that role to <05704> this <02088> very day <03117>. 8:9 Solomon <08010> did not <03808> assign <05414> Israelites <03478> <01121> to these work <04399> crews <05650>; the Israelites served as his soldiers <04421> <0582>, officers <08269>, charioteers <07991>, and commanders <08269> of his chariot <07393> forces <06571>. 8:10 These <0428> men worked for Solomon <08010> <04428> as supervisors <05333> <08269>; there were a total of 250 <03967> <02572> of them who were in charge <07287> of the people <05971>. 8:11 Solomon <08010> moved <05927> Pharaoh’s <06547> daughter <01323> up <05927> from the City <05892> of David <01732> to the palace <01004> he had built <01129> for her, for <03588> he said <0559>, “My wife <0802> must not <03808> live <03427> in the palace <01004> of King <04428> David <01732> of Israel <03478>, for <03588> the places where <0834> the ark <0727> of the Lord <03068> has entered <0935> are holy <06944>.” 8:12 Then <0227> Solomon <08010> offered <05927> burnt sacrifices <05930> to the Lord <03068> on <05921> the altar <04196> of the Lord <03068> which <0834> he had built <01129> in front <06440> of the temple’s porch <0197>. 8:13 He observed the daily <03117> <03117> requirements <01697> for sacrifices <05927> that Moses <04872> had specified for Sabbaths <07676>, new moon <02320> festivals <04150>, and the three <07969> annual <08141> celebrations <06471>– the Feast <02282> of Unleavened <04682> Bread, the Feast <02282> of Weeks <07620>, and the Feast <02282> of Temporary Shelters <05521>. 8:14 As his father <01> David <01732> had decreed <04941>, Solomon appointed <05975> the divisions <04256> of the priests <03548> to do their assigned tasks <05656>, the Levitical <03881> orders <04931> to lead worship <01984> and help <08334> the priests <03548> with their daily <03117> <03117> tasks <01697>, and the divisions <04256> of the gatekeepers <07778> to serve at their assigned gates <08179> <08179>. This was what David <01732> the man <0376> of God <0430> had ordered <04687>. 8:15 They did not <03808> neglect <05493> any <03605> detail <01697> of the king’s <04428> orders <04687> pertaining <05921> to the priests <03548>, Levites <03881>, and treasuries <0214>. 8:16 All <03605> the work <04399> ordered by Solomon <08010> was completed <03559>, from <05704> the day <03117> the foundation <04143> of the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> was laid until <05704> it was finished <03615>; the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> was completed <08003>. 8:17 Then <0227> Solomon <08010> went <01980> to Ezion Geber <06100> and to <0413> Elat <0359> on <05921> the coast <03220> <08193> in the land <0776> of Edom <0123>. 8:18 Huram <02361> sent <07971> him ships and some of his sailors <0591> <05650>, men <05650> who were well acquainted <03045> with the sea <03220>. They sailed <0935> with <05973> Solomon’s <08010> men <05650> to Ophir <0211>, and took <03947> from there <08033> 450 <02572> <03967> <0702> talents <03603> of gold <02091>, which they brought back <0935> to <0413> King <04428> Solomon <08010>.

• 2Ch 8:1-18 -- Building Projects and Commercial Efforts

• Weaving, weavers

  [ebd] Weaving was an art practised in very early times (Ex. 35:35). The Egyptians were specially skilled in it (Isa. 19:9; Ezek. 27:7), and some have regarded them as its inventors. In the wilderness, the Hebrews practised it (Ex....
  

• Treasure cities

  [nave] TREASURE CITIES, built for the storage of the king's substance, Ex. 1:11; 1 Kin. 9:19; 2 Chr. 8:4, 6.
  

• TEMPLE, B

  [isbe] TEMPLE, B - B. IN CRITICISM I. ALLEGED LACK OF HARMONY BETWEEN EARLIER (KINGS) AND LATER (CODE OF HAMMURABI) VERSIONS OF TEMPLE BUILDING 1. Second Version Not a Facsimile of First 2. The Two Versions Differ as to the Builder...
  

• TAMAR (2)

  [isbe] TAMAR (2) - (tamar, "palm tree"; Thaiman): (1) This name occurs in Ezekiel's ideal delimitation of the territory to be occupied by Israel (Ezek 47:19; 48:28). The Dead Sea is the eastern border; and the southern boundary run...
  

• Solomon

  [ebd] peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David's second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father on the throne in early man...
  [isbe] SOLOMON - sol'-o-mun (shelomoh; New Testament Solomon): I. EARLY LIFE 1. Name and Meaning 2. Sources 3. Birth and Upbringing 4. His Accession 5. Closing Days of David II. REIGN OF SOLOMON 1. His Vision 2. His Policy 3. Its R...
  [smith] (peaceful). I. Early life and occasion to the throne . --Solomon was the child of David?s old age, the last born of all his sons. (1 Chronicles 3:5) The yearnings of the "man of war" led him to give to the new-horn infant ...
  [nave] SOLOMON Son of David by Bathsheba, 2 Sam. 12:24; 1 Kin. 1:13, 17, 21. Named Jedidiah, by Nathan the prophet, 2 Sam. 12:24, 25. Ancestor of Joseph, Matt. 1:6. Succeeds David to the throne of Israel, 1 Kin. 1:11-48; 2:12; 1...
  

• Ships

  [ebd] early used in foreign commerce by the Phoenicians (Gen. 49:13). Moses (Deut. 28:68) and Job (9:26) make reference to them, and Balaam speaks of the "ships of Chittim" (Num. 24:24). Solomon constructed a navy at Ezion-geber b...
  

• Ship

  [nave] SHIP Built by Noah, Gen. 6:13-22; by Solomon, 1 Kin. 9:26; 2 Chr. 8:17; by Jehoshaphat, 1 Kin. 22:48; 2 Chr. 20:35, 36; of gopher wood, Gen. 6:14; of fir wood, Ezek. 27:5; of bulrushes, Isa. 18:2; sealed with pitch, Gen. 6:1...
  

• STORE-CITIES

  [isbe] STORE-CITIES - stor'-cit-iz (mickenoth): the Revised Version (British and American) Ex 1:11 (of PITHOM and RAAMSES (which see)) for the King James Version "treasure cities" (compare 1 Ki 9:19; 2 Ch 8:4,6; 16:4, etc.). Depots...
  

• SOLOMONS SERVANTS

  [smith] (CHILDREN OF). (Ezra 2:55,58; Nehemiah 7:57,60) The persons thus named appear in the lists of the exiles who returned from the captivity. They were the descendants of the Canaanites who were reduced by Solomon to the helot st...
  

• Porter

  [ebd] a gate-keeper (2 Sam. 18:26; 2 Kings 7:10; 1 Chr. 9:21; 2 Chr. 8:14). Of the Levites, 4,000 were appointed as porters by David (1 Chr. 23:5), who were arranged according to their families (26:1-19) to take charge of the door...
  

• Pentateuch

  [ebd] the five-fold volume, consisting of the first five books of the Old Testament. This word does not occur in Scripture, nor is it certainly known when the roll was thus divided into five portions Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Nu...
  

• PENTECOST

  [isbe] PENTECOST - pen'-te-kost: 1. In the Old Testament: As the name indicates (pentekoste), this second of the great Jewish national festivals was observed on the 50th day, or 7 weeks, from the Paschal Feast, and therefore in the...
  

• HURAM

  [isbe] HURAM - hu'-ram (churam, "noble-born"): (1) Grandson of Benjamin (1 Ch 8:5). (2) King of Tyre in alliance with David and Solomon. So named in 2 Ch 2:3,11,12; 8:2; 9:10,21, but elsewhere written HIRAM (which see). (3) The Tyr...
  [smith] (noble born). A Benjamite; son of Bela, the first-born of the patriarch. (1 Chronicles 8:5) The form in which the name of the king of Tyre in alliance with David and Solomon --and elsewhere given as HIRAM, OR HURAM-- appe...
  

• HIRAM

  [ebd] high-born. (1.) Generally "Huram," one of the sons of Bela (1 Chr. 8:5). (2.) Also "Huram" and "Horam," king of Tyre. He entered into an alliance with David, and assisted him in building his palace by sending him able workme...
  [isbe] HIRAM - hi'-ram (chiram; Septuagint Chiram, but Cheiram, in 2 Sam 5:11; 1 Ch 14:1): There is some confusion regarding the form of this name. In the books of Samuel and Kings the prevailing form is "Hiram" (chiram); but in 1 ...
  

• Ezion-geber

  [ebd] the giant's backbone (so called from the head of a mountain which runs out into the sea), an ancient city and harbour at the north-east end of the Elanitic branch of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Akabah, near Elath or Eloth (Num....
  

• Cities

  [nave] CITIES Ancient, Gen. 4:17; 10:10-12. Fortified, Num. 32:36; Deut. 9:1; Josh. 10:20; 14:12; 2 Chr. 8:5; 11:10-12; 17:2, 19; 21:3; Isa. 23:11. Gates of, See: Gates. Designated as: Royal, Josh. 10:2; 1 Sam. 27:5; 2 Sam. 12:2...
  

• Cabul

  [ebd] how little! as nothing. (1.) A town on the eastern border of Asher (Josh. 19:27), probably one of the towns given by Solomon to Hiram; the modern Kabul, some 8 miles east of Accho, on the very borders of Galilee. (2.) A dist...
  

• BAR (2)

  [isbe] BAR (2) - bar (substantive): (1) beriach = "a bolt" (Ex 26:26-29; 35:11; 36:31-34; 39:33; 40:18; Nu 3:36; 4:31; Dt 3:5; Jdg 16:3; 1 Sam 23:7; 1 Ki 4:13; 2 Ch 8:5; 14:7; Neh 3:3,6,13-15; Job 38:10 "bars and doors" for the sea...
  

• ATONEMENT, DAY OF

  [isbe] ATONEMENT, DAY OF - a-ton'-ment: I. THE LEGAL ENACTMENTS 1. Named 2. Leviticus 16 (1) Contents, Structure and Position (a) Leviticus 16:1-10 (b) Leviticus 16:11-24 (c) Leviticus 16:25-28 (d) Leviticus 16:29-34 Use of Number ...
  

• ADONIRAM

  [isbe] ADONIRAM - ad-o-ni'-ram ('adhoniram, "my lord is exalted"): An official of Solomon (1 Ki 4:6; 5:14). Near the close of the reign of David, and at the opening of the reign of Rehoboam, the same office was held by Adoram (2 Sa...
  

• Solomon Completing His Work

  

• Who were Solomons wives?
  You will not find the names of all of Solomon's wives. If they were recorded, it would be a book in and of itself. We know that one of his wives was the daughter of Pharaoh (1 Kings 9:16; 2 Chronicles 8:11). And we are told h...

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