1. Then, twenty years having passed since Solomon built the house of the Lord and his own house,
2. he built the cities that Hiram had given to Solomon, and he caused the sons of Israel to live there.
3. Also, he went to Hamath Zobah, and he obtained it.
4. And he built Palmira in the desert, and he built very fortified cities in Hamath.
5. And he built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, as walled cities, having gates and bars and locks,
6. as well as Baalath, and all the very strong cities which were of Solomon, and all the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen. Everything whatsoever that Solomon willed and decided, he built in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout the entire land of his authority.
7. All the people who had been left from the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, those who were not from the stock of Israel,
8. those of their sons and their posterity whom the sons of Israel had not put to death, Solomon subjugated as tributaries, even to this day.
9. But he did not appoint anyone from the sons of Israel to serve in the works of the king. For they were men of war, and first rulers, and commanders of his chariots and horsemen.