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And at the end of twenty years after Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house:
2
He built the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
3
He went also into Emath Suba, and possessed it.
4
And he built Palmira in the desert, and he built other strong cities in Emath.
5
And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, walled cities with gates and bars and locks.
6
Balaath also and all the strong cities that were Solomon’s, and all the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen. All that Solomon had a mind, and designed, he built in Jerusalem and in Libanus, and in all the land of his dominion.
7
All the people that were left of the Hethites, and the Amorrhites, and the Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not of the stock of Israel: