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2 Chronicles 8
¹¹ Now Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the house he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places to which the ark of the Lord has come are holy."
¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had built before the vestibule,
¹³ according to the daily rate, offering according to the commandment of Moses, for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the three appointed yearly feasts--the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
¹⁴ And, according to the order of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, the Levites for their duties (to praise and serve before the priests) as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate; for so David the man of God had commanded.
¹⁵ They did not depart from the command of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter or concerning the treasuries.
¹⁶ Now all the work of Solomon was well-ordered from the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was completed.
¹⁷ Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the seacoast, in the land of Edom.
¹⁸ And Hiram sent him ships by the hand of his servants, and servants who knew the sea. They went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and acquired four hundred and fifty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9
¹ Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with hard questions, having a very great retinue, camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones; and when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart.
² So Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing so difficult for Solomon that he could not explain it to her.
³ And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,