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Solomon: Builds Another House for Pharaoh's Daughter

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1 Kings 7:8–12 And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married. / All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard. / The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.
1 Kings 9:24 As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
2 Chronicles 8:11 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.”
Ecclesiastes 2:4 I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.