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fortified Tadmor in the desert and all the store-cities he had founded in Hamath;
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built the fortress cities Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon, complete with walls, gates, and bars;
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built Baalath and store-cities; built chariot-cities for his horses. Solomon built impulsively and extravagantly - whenever a whim took him. And in Jerusalem, in Lebanon - wherever he fancied.
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The remnants from the original inhabitants of the land (Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites - all non-Israelites),
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