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At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house,
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Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.
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Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and captured it.
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He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage towns that he built in Hamath.
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He also built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars,
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and Baalath, as well as all Solomon's storage towns, and all the towns for his chariots, the towns for his cavalry, and whatever Solomon desired to build, in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,
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from their descendants who were still left in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon conscripted for forced labor, as is still the case today.
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But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; they were soldiers, and his officers, the commanders of his chariotry and cavalry.