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Now this is the account of the forcedlaborwhichKingSolomonlevied to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
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For Pharaohking of Egypt had gone up and capturedGezer and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon'swife.
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and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,
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and all the storagecitieswhichSolomonhad, even the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and all that it pleased*Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.
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As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel,
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their descendantswho were leftafter them in the landwhom the sons of Israel were unable* to destroyutterly, from them Solomonleviedforcedlaborers*, even to thisday.
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But Solomon did not makeslaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, his chariotcommanders, and his horsemen.
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Now threetimes in a yearSolomonofferedburntofferings and peaceofferings on the altarwhich he built to the LORD, burningincense with them on the altar which was before the LORD. So he finished the house.