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19 all of Solomon’s towns for storehouses, the towns for his chariots, the towns for charioteers,[a] and everything Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land he ruled.

20 All the people who remained from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not part of the people of Israel— 21 their descendants who remained in the land, whom the Israelites were not able to destroy completely—were drafted for forced labor by Solomon. They are serving right up to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:19 The word is sometimes translated horsemen, but it does not seem that cavalry was being used at this time.