1 Kings 9:15–22

15 Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon alevied to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the 1bMillo, the wall of Jerusalem, cHazor, dMegiddo, and eGezer.

16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the aCanaanites who lived in the city, and had bgiven it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

17 So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower aBeth-horon

18 and aBaalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

19 and all the storage cities which Solomon had, even athe cities for 1his chariots and the cities for 1bhis horsemen, and 2call that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land 3under his rule.

20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel,

21 atheir descendants who were left after them in the land bwhom the sons of Israel were unable to destroy utterly, cfrom them Solomon levied dforced laborers, even to this day.

22 But Solomon adid not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.