Having completed his description of Solomon’s temple building (chaps. 2–7), the Chronicler now offers some insight into Solomon’s other activities, which reveal the ways Yahweh blesses Solomon for his faithfulness to the temple project. This new phase of the account begins with a summary note in 8:1, which identifies the period in view as after the completion of the temple. The first set of activities (8:2–11) is secular and includes construction projects and the organizing of human resources. Urban areas in view range from the north (8:2–4) to the south (8:5–6). Solomon is credited with completing the conquest of the land, left unfinished in Joshua and Judges (8:7–8), and conscripting some of these people groups to be his laborers; Israelites instead served as his military and officials (…