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19 and he also built all of the storage cities which were Solomon’s, the cities for the chariots, the cities for the cavalry, and all of Solomon’s desire that he wanted[a] to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion.

20 All of the people who were remaining from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites who were not of the Israelites,[b] 21 their children who remained after them in the land, whom the Israelites[c] were not able to completely destroy, Solomon conscripted them for forced labor, until this very day.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:19 Or “desired”
  2. 1 Kings 9:20 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. 1 Kings 9:21 Literally “sons/children of Israel”