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It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Shlomo had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
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that the cities which Huram had given to Shlomo, Shlomo built them, and caused the children of Yisra'el to dwell there.
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Shlomo went to Hamat-Tzovah, and prevailed against it.
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He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamat.
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Also he built Beit-Horon the upper, and Beit-Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
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and Ba`alat, and all the store-cities that Shlomo had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Shlomo desired to build for his pleasure in Yerushalayim, and in Levanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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As for all the people who were left of the Hitti, and the Amori, and the Perizzi, and the Hivvi, and the Yevusi, who were not of Yisra'el;
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of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Yisra'el didn't consume, of them did Shlomo raise a levy [of bondservants] to this day.