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Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,
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He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.
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And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it.
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And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;
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And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;
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And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.
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As for all the rest 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 men who were still living in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not put an end to, these Solomon put to forced work, as is done to this day;