2 Chronicles 8:11
And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to the house which he had 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 came into it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
10And all the chief captains of king Solomon's army were two hundred and fifty, who taught the people.
Cross References
Exodus 3:5And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
1 Kings 3:1And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon, and he made affinity with Pharao the king of Egypt: for he took his daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
1 Kings 9:24And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of David to her house, which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Mello.
2 Peter 1:18And this voice we heard brought from heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 8:2-12
Solomon's Buildings. ( b. c. 992.) 1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the Lord , and his own house, 2 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. 3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it. 4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath. 5 Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with… Read the whole commentary →