And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David. On his marriage with the Egyptian princess at the beginning of his reign, he assigned her a temporary abode in the city of David - i:e., Jerusalem-until a suitable palace for his wife had been erected. While that palace was in progress, he himself lodged in the palace of David, but he did not allow her to occupy it, because he felt that, she being a pagan proselyte, and having brought from her own country an establishment of pagan maid-servants, there would have been an impropriety in her being domiciled in a mansion which was, or had been, hallowed by the reception of the ark. It seems she was received, on her arrival, into his mother's abode (Song of Solomon 3:4; Song of Solomon 8:2). There is in the valley of Jehoshaphat a monolith, minutely described by M. De Saulcy, and situated at the north end of the village Kefr Silwan, which resembles in its architecture some of the tombs of Egypt, and still more a sepulchral monument dug out by Botta from the mound of Khorsabad. It is partially isolated; the sides contract slightly, and are surmounted by a deep Egyptian cornice. De Saulcy's conviction is, that this is the chapel where Solomon's Egyptian wife performed the sacred rites of her native country (cf. 1 Kings 7:8-12).