1 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the LORD and his own palace,
2
Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram[a] had given him, and settled Israelites in them.
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Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.
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He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.
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He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,
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as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses[b] —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.