12. Solomon offered sacrifices to the Lord on the altar he had built in front of the temple.
13. He followed the requirements that Moses had given for sacrifices offered on the Sabbath, on the first day of each month, the Festival of Thin Bread, the Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Shelters.
14. Solomon then assigned the priests and the Levites their duties at the temple, and he followed the instructions that his father David had given him. Some of the Levites were to lead music and help the priests in their duties, and others were to guard the temple gates
15. and the storage rooms. The priests and Levites followed these instructions exactly.
16. Everything Solomon had planned to do was now finished—from the laying of the temple's foundation to its completion.
17. Solomon went to Ezion-Geber and Eloth, two Edomite towns on the Red Sea.
18. Hiram sent him ships and some of his experienced sailors. They went with Solomon's own sailors to the country of Ophir and brought back more than fifteen thousand kilogrammes of gold for Solomon.