20. Any non-Israelite people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—
21. that is, the descendants of such people who were still in the land because the Israelites weren’t able to wipe them out—Solomon forced into the labor gangs that are still in existence today.
22. However, Solomon didn’t force the Israelites to work as slaves; instead, they became warriors, his servants, his leaders, his officers, and those in charge of his chariots and cavalry.
23. These were the chief officers over Solomon’s work: five hundred fifty had charge of the people who did the work.
24. When Pharaoh’s daughter went up from David’s City to the palace he had built for her, Solomon built the stepped structure.
25. Three times a year Solomon would offer entirely burned offerings and well-being sacrifices on the altar that he had built for the Lord. Along with this he would burn incense to the Lord. In this way, he completed the temple.