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23 These were the commanders of the overseers who were over the work for Solomon, five hundred and fifty, ruling over the people doing the work.

24 As soon as the daughter of Pharaoh went up from the city of David to her house which he[a] built for her, then he built the Millo.

25 Solomon sacrificed three times a year: burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar that he had built to Yahweh, and he offered incense with it before Yahweh; and so he completed the house.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:24 That is, Solomon

23 They were also the chief officials(A) in charge of Solomon’s projects—550 officials supervising those who did the work.

24 After Pharaoh’s daughter(B) had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces.(C)

25 Three(D) times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense before the Lord along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.

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