2 Chronicles 8:11 meaning and explanation
Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
2 Chronicles 8:11, Berean Standard Bible
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The Chronicler describes Solomon moving his Egyptian wife from the City of David, where she had lived since their marriage, into a palace he built for her. Solomon's stated reason is reverence: the places the ark of the LORD had entered are holy, so his foreign wife should not dwell there.
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