Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 8:11

"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 Jehovah hath come." — 2 Chronicles 8:11 (ASV)

And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh. —See 1 Kings 9:24, which is much briefer than the present account. The chronicler has not mentioned this princess before (compare 1 Kings 3:1; 1 Kings 9:16), and mentions her here only in connection with Solomon’s buildings. (See Note on 2 Chronicles 12:2.) Solomon’s Egyptian consort was probably a princess of the XXII Bubastite Dynasty, founded by Shishak, which was of Semitic origin.

For he said. —The motive assigned here is lacking in the other text, and is characteristic of the chronicler both in thought and language; though it is too much to say with Thenius that the princess could not have lived anywhere else than in the old palace of David, until the new one was built. 1 Kings 3:1 says only that Solomon brought her into the city of David.

King of Israel. —In contrast with the Egyptian origin of the princess.

Because the places are holy. —For a holy thing is that to which, etc. (The plural pronoun hçmmâh, “they,” is equivalent to a neuter-sing, in the usage of the chronicler.)