2 Chronicles 8:1-11

1Now it came about at the end of the twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house (palace),

2that he built and fortified the cities which Huram (Hiram) had given to him, and settled the Israelites there.

3Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

4He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all his storage cities in Hamath.

5He also built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars [to lock the gates];

6and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.

7All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,

8but were descendants of those who were left in the land, whom the Israelites had not destroyed—Solomon brought them up as forced laborers to this day.

9But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites for his work; they were men of war, his chief captains, and commanders of his chariots and his horsemen.

10These were the chief officers of King Solomon, two hundred and fifty [in authority] who ruled over the people.

11Then Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David into the house (palace) he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.”