1 Kings 9:18-20

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁸ Baalath, Tadmor in the desert (inside the country), and ¹⁹ all the storage cities that he owned. He also built cities for his chariots, cities for his war horses, and whatever ⌞else⌟ he wanted to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or the entire territory that he governed.

²⁰ The Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites had been left ⌞in the land⌟ because the Israelites had not been able to claim them for God by destroying them.^[a] They were not Israelites,