1Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,
2He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.
3And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it.
4And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;
5And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;
6And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.
7As for all the rest of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel:
