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It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, 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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Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
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He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.
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Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the lower, 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 his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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As for all the people who 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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of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn't consume, of them did Solomon raise a levy [of bondservants] to this day.
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But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
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These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.
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Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to 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 Yahweh has come.