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And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of Jehovah and his own house,
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that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
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And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah, and overcame it.
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And he built Tadmor, in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
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And he built upper Beth-Horon and lower Beth-Horon, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
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and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for chariots, and the cities for the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and on Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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All the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,
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their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel had not destroyed, upon them did Solomon impose tribute-service until this day.
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But of the children of Israel, of them did Solomon make no bondmen for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and his horsemen.
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And these were the chief of king Solomon's superintendents, two hundred and fifty, that ruled over the people.