as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses[a] – whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory that he ruled.

There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites). Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these people remaining in the land – whom the Israelites had not destroyed – to serve as slave labour, as it is to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 8:6 Or charioteers