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524 Second Book of Paralipomenon

as David thy father walked, and do according to 5 And he built Beth-horon the upper, and
all that I have commanded thee, and keep my Beth-horon the nether, walled cities with gates
justices and my judgments: and bars and locks.
18 I will raise up the throne of thy kingdom, 6 Balaath also and all the strong cities that
as I promised to David thy father, saying: There were Solomon’s, and all the cities of the char-
shall not fail thee a man of thy stock to be ruler iots, and the cities of the horsemen. All that
in Israel. Solomon had a mind, and designed, he built in
19 But if you turn away, and forsake my jus- Jerusalem and in Libanus, and in all the land of
tices, and my commandments which I have set his dominion.
before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, 7 All the people that were left of the Hethites,
and adore them, and the Amorrhites, and the Pherezites, and the
20 I will pluck you up by the root out of my Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not of the
land which I have given you: and this house stock of Israel:
which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast 8 Of their children, and of the posterity, whom
away from before my face, and will make it a the children of Israel had not slain, Solomon
byword, and an example among all nations. made to be the tributaries, unto this day.
21 And this house shall be for a proverb to all 9 But of the children of Israel he set none to
that pass by, and they shall be astonished and serve in the king’s works: for they were men of
say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, war, and chief captains, and rulers of his chariots
and to this house? and horsemen.
22 And they shall answer: Because they for- 10 And all the chief captains of king Solomon’s
sook the Lord the God of their fathers, who army were two hundred and fifty, who taught the
brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid people.
hold on strange gods, and adored them, and wor- 11 And he removed the daughter of Pharao
shipped them: therefore all these evils are come from the city of David, to the house which he had
upon them. 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
Chapter 8 came into it.
12 Then Solomon offered holocausts to the
And at the end of twenty years after Solomon Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had
had built the house of the Lord and his own built before the porch,
house: 13 That every day an offering might be made
2 He built the cities which Hiram had given on it according to the ordinance of Moses, in the
to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the
dwell there. festival days three times a year, that is to say, in
3 He went also into Emath Suba, and pos- the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of
sessed it. weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
4 And he built Palmira in the desert, and he 14 And he appointed according to the order of
built other strong cities in Emath. David his father the offices of the priests in their