1Expletis autem viginti annis postquam ædificavit Salomon domum DominiThen,et domum suam,twenty years having passed since Solomon built the house of the Lord and his own house,

2civitates quas dederat Hiram Salomoni, ædificavit,he built the cities that Hiram had given to Solomon,et habitare ibi fecit filios Israël.and he caused the sons of Israel to live there.

3Abiit quoque in Emath Suba,Also, he went to Hamath Zobah,et obtinuit eam.and he obtained it.

4Et ædificavit Palmyram in deserto,And he built Palmira in the desert,et alias civitates munitissimas ædificavit in Emath.and he built very fortified cities in Hamath.

5Exstruxitque Bethoron superiorem,And he built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon,et Bethoron inferiorem,as walled cities,civitates muratas habentes portas et vectes et seras:having gates and bars and locks,

6Balaath etiam et omnes urbes firmissimas quæ fuerunt Salomonis,as well as Baalath, and all the very strong cities which were of Solomon,cunctasque urbes quadrigarum,and all the cities of the chariots,et urbes equitum. Omnia quæcumque voluit Salomon atque disposuit,and the cities of the horsemen. Everything whatsoever that Solomon willed and decided,ædificavit in Jerusalem,he built in Jerusalem,et in Libano,and in Lebanon,et in universa terra potestatis suæ.and throughout the entire land of his authority.

7Omnem populum qui derelictus fuerat de Hethæis,All the people who had been left from the Hittites,et Amorrhæis,and the Amorites,et Pherezæis,and the Perizzites,et Hevæis,and the Hivites,et Jebusæis,and the Jebusites,qui non erant de stirpe Israël,those who were not from the stock of Israel,

8de filiis eorum, et de posteris, quos non interfecerant filii Israël,those of their sons and their posterity whom the sons of Israel had not put to death,subjugavit Salomon in tributarios,Solomon subjugated as tributaries,usque in diem hanc.even to this day.

9Porro de filiis Israël non posuit ut servirent operibus regis:But he did not appoint anyone from the sons of Israel to serve in the works of the king.ipsi enim erant viri bellatores,For they were men of war,et duces primi,and first rulers,et principes quadrigarum et equitum ejus.and commanders of his chariots and horsemen.

10Omnes autem principes exercitus regis Salomonis fuerunt ducenti quinquaginta,Now all the leaders of the army of king Solomon were two hundred fifty,qui erudiebant populum.who were instructing the people.

11Filiam vero Pharaonis transtulit de civitate David in domum quam ædificaverat ei.Truly, he transferred the daughter of Pharaoh, from the City of David,Dixit enim rex:to the house that he had built for her.Non habitabit uxor mea in domo David regis Israël,For the king said: “My wife shall not live in the house of David,eo quod sanctificata sit:king of Israel, for it has been sanctified.quia ingressa est in eam arca Domini.For the ark of the Lord has entered into it.”

12Tunc obtulit Salomon holocausta Domino super altare Domini,Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord on the altar of the Lord,quod exstruxerat ante porticum,which he had constructed before the portico,

13ut per singulos dies offerretur in eo juxta præceptum Moysi in sabbatis et in calendis,so that every day there would be an offering on it, in accord with the precept of Moses, on the Sabbaths,et in festis diebus, ter per annum,and on the new moons, and three times a year on the feast days,id est,that is,in solemnitate azymorum, et in solemnitatem hebdomadarum,on the solemnity of unleavened bread, and on the solemnity of weeks,et in solemnitate tabernaculorum.and on the solemnity of tabernacles.

14Et constituit juxta dispositionem David patris sui officia sacerdotum in ministeriis suis,And he appointed, in accord with the plan of his father David, the offices of the priests in their ministries;et Levitas in ordine suo,and those of the Levites, in their orders,ut laudarent et ministrarent coram sacerdotibus juxta ritum uniuscujusque diei,so that they might praise and minister before the priests according to the ritual of each day;et janitores in divisionibus suis per portam et portam:and the porters, in their divisions, from gate to gate.sic enim præceperat David homo Dei.For so had David, the man of God, instructed.

15Nec prætergressi sunt de mandatis regis tam sacerdotes quam Levitæ,Neither the priests, nor the Levites, transgressed against the commands of the king,ex omnibus quæ præceperat,in all that he had instructed,et in custodiis thesaurorum.and in the keeping of the treasuries.

16Omnes impensas præparatas habuit Salomon ex eo die quo fundavit domum Domini usque in diem quo perfecit eam.Solomon had all the expenses prepared, from the day on which he founded the house of the Lord, even until the day when he perfected it.

17Tunc abiit Salomon in Asiongaber,Then Solomon went away to Eziongeber,et in Ailath ad oram maris Rubri,and to Eloth, on the coast of the Red Sea,quæ est in terra Edom.which is in the land of Edom.

18Misit autem ei Hiram per manus servorum suorum naves,And Hiram sent to him ships, by the hands of his servants,et nautas gnaros maris,sailors and skillful navigators of the sea,et abierunt cum servis Salomonis in Ophir,and they went away with the servants of Solomon to Ophir.tuleruntque inde quadringenta quinquaginta talenta auri,And they took from there four hundred fifty talents of gold,et attulerunt ad regem Salomonem.and they brought it to king Solomon.