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18 Baalath, Tadmor in the wilderness,[a] 19 all the storage cities that belonged to him,[b] and the cities where chariots and horses were kept.[c] He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.[d] 20 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:18 tn The Hebrew text has “in the wilderness, in the land.”
  2. 1 Kings 9:19 tn Heb “to Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  3. 1 Kings 9:19 tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”
  4. 1 Kings 9:19 tn Heb “and the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”
  5. 1 Kings 9:20 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from the sons of Israel.”