⁸ Solomon’s own palace where he would live, in the other courtyard behind the hall, was of similar construction. And he made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, his wife.^[a](A)

⁹ All of these buildings were of costly stones, cut to size and sawed with saws on the inner and outer surfaces, from foundation to coping and from the outside to the great courtyard. ¹⁰ The foundation was made of large, costly stones 12 and 15 feet^[b] long. ¹¹ Above were also costly stones, cut to size, as well as cedar wood. ¹² Around the great courtyard, as well as the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the portico of the temple, were three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.^(B)

Solomon’s Other Activities

²⁴ Pharaoh’s daughter moved from the city of David^(A) to the house that Solomon had built for her;^(B) he then built the terraces.^(C)

¹¹ Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house he had built for her,^(A) for he said, “My wife must not live in the house^[a] of David king of Israel because the places the ark of the Lord has come into are holy.”

The Emptiness of Possessions

⁴ I increased my achievements. I built houses^(A) and planted vineyards^(B) for myself.