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6 also Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities and the cities of the cavalry, and all that Solomon adesired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.  
7 aAll the people who were left of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of Israel—  
8 that is, their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Israel did not destroy—from these Solomon raised forced labor, as it is to this day.
9 But Solomon did not make the children of Israel1 servants for his work. Some were men of war, captains of his officers, captains of his chariots, and his cavalry.  
10 And others were chiefs of the officials of King Solomon: atwo hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people.  
11 Now Solomon abrought 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 adaily rate, offering according to the commandment of Moses, for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the bthree appointed yearly cfeasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.  
14 And, according to the1 order of David his father, he appointed the adivisions of the priests for their service, bthe Levites for their duties (to praise and serve before the priests) as the duty of each day required, and the cgatekeepers 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 atreasuries.  
16 Now all the work of Solomon was well-ordered1 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 aEzion Geber and Elath on the seacoast, in the land of Edom.  
18 aAnd Hiram sent him ships by the hand of his servants, and servants who knew the sea. They went with the servants of Solomon to bOphir, and acquired four hundred and fifty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon. 
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I & II Chronicles

THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF CHRONICLES were also considered as one by the ancient Jews, who called them "words of days," that is, diaries or journals, being probably compiled from those registers that were kept by the king's historiographers of passing occurrences. In the Septuagint the title given them is Paraleipomenon, "of things omitted," that is, the books are supplementary because many things unnoticed in the former books are here recorded; and not only the omissions are supplied, but some narratives extended while others are added. The authorship is commonly ascribed to Ezra, whose leading object seems to have been to show the division of families, possessions, etc., before the captivity, with a view to the exact restoration of the same order after the return from Babylon. Although many things are restated and others are exact repetitions of what is contained in Kings, there is so much new and important information that, as JEROME has well said, the Chronicles furnish the means of comprehending parts of the New Testament, which must have been unintelligible without them. They are frequently referred to by Christ and the Apostles as forming part of "the Word of God" (see the genealogies in Mat. 1:1-16; Luk. 3:23-38; compare II Chronicles 19:7 with I Peter 1:17; II Chronicles 24:19-21 with Matthew 23:32-35).

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