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And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,

At the end of twenty years. — See 1 Kings 9:19 .

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That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

Which Huram had restored. — Out of dislike of them. 1 Kings 9:12 Or, Which Huram had given to Solomon, that by exchange of courtesies their love might increase.

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And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.

And prevailed against it. — King James, when he first entered England at Berwick, himself gave fire to, and shot off a piece of ordinance, in which cannon he might seem to have discharged war out of England; so did Solomon out of Israel, by this one expedition.

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And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.

And he built Tadmor, … — See 1 Kings 9:18-19 .

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Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

Fenced cities. — To prevent and frighten an enemy.

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And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

And in Lebanon. — In the forest of Lebanon, where he had his summer house.

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[But] of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.

Them did Solomon make to pay tribute. — Not for a toleration of their heathenish superstitions - as our William Rufus dealt by the Jews here, nor to use them as the Pope still doth the Jews in his dominions, to suck from the meanest, and to be sucked - or rather squeezed as full sponges - by the greatest; but for state service, and haply to gain them to God.

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But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they [were] men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.

But of the children of Israel. — See 1 Kings 9:22 .

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