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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,

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  1. 1 Kings 9:20 “because the Israelites. . .” This clause from verse 21 (in Hebrew) has been placed in verse 20 to express the complex Hebrew paragraph structure more clearly in English.

18 Baalath,(A) and Tadmor[a] in the desert, within his land, 19 as well as all his store cities(B) and the towns for his chariots(C) and for his horses[b]—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

20 There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites,(D) Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites(E) (these peoples were not Israelites).

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  1. 1 Kings 9:18 The Hebrew may also be read Tamar.
  2. 1 Kings 9:19 Or charioteers