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^(C1)Now it came about at the end of the twenty years in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house,

that he built the cities which Huram had given ^(F1)him, and settled the sons of Israel there.

Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities which he had built in Hamath.

He also built upper ^(C1)Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, which were ^(C2)fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars;

and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for ^(F1)his chariots and cities for ^(F1)his horsemen, and everything that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and all the land ^(F2)under his rule.

^(C1)All of the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,

that is, from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel had not destroyed, ^(C1)Solomon raised them as forced laborers to this day.

But Solomon did not make slaves from the sons of Israel for his work; for they were men of war, his chief captains and commanders of his chariots and his horsemen.

These were the chief ^(F1)officers of King Solomon, 250 who ruled over the people.

^(C1)Then Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, because ^(F1)the places where the ark of the LORD has entered are holy."