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10 Solomon appointed 250 officers to be in charge of his workers.

11 Solomon's wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt, moved from the part of Jerusalem called David's City to her new palace that Solomon had built. The sacred chest had been kept in David's City, which made his palace sacred, and so Solomon's wife could no longer live there.

12 Solomon offered sacrifices to the Lord on the altar he had built in front of the temple porch.

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10 They were also King Solomon’s chief officials—two hundred and fifty officials supervising the men.

11 Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter(A) up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.”

12 On the altar(B) of the Lord that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord,

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