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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Chronicles 8 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_chronicles/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > 2 Chronicles 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/7.htm" title="2 Chronicles 7">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 8 <a href="../2_chronicles/9.htm" title="2 Chronicles 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/2_chronicles/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Solomon’s Other Activities</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and his own palace, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Huram, a variant of Hiram; also in verse 18">a</a></sup></span> had given him, and settled Israelites in them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or charioteers">b</a></sup></span> —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites). <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They were also King Solomon’s chief officials—two hundred and fifty officials supervising the men.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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 <span class="name">Lord</span> has entered are holy.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>On the altar of the <span class="name">Lord</span> that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They did not deviate from the king’s commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>All Solomon’s work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> was laid until its completion. So the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> was finished.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the coast of Edom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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 <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 17 tons or about 15 metric tons">c</a></sup></span> of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>Huram,</i> a variant of <i>Hiram</i>; also in verse 18</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>charioteers</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 17 tons or about 15 metric tons</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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