2 Chronicles 8

¹And at the end of twenty years after Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house:

²He built the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

³He went also into Emath Suba, and possessed it.

⁴And he built Palmira in the desert, and he built other strong cities in Emath.

⁵And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, walled cities with Rates and bars and locks.

⁶Balaath also and all the strong cities that were Solomon’s, and all the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen. All that Solomon had a mind, and designed, he built in Jerusalem and in Libanus, and in all the land of his dominion.

⁷All the people that were left of the Hethites, and the Amorrhites, and the Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not of the stock of Israel:

⁸Of their children, and of the posterity, whom the children of Israel had not slain, Solomon made to be the tributaries, unto this day.

⁹But of the children of Israel he set none to serve in the king’s works: for they were men of war, and chief captains, and rulers of his chariots and horsemen.

¹⁰And all the chief captains of king Solomon’s army were two hundred and fifty, who taught the people.

¹¹And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to the house which he had built for her. For the king said: My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is sanctified: because the ark of the Lord came into it.