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 had given him, and settled Israelites in them.
3. Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.
4. He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.
5. He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,
6. as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses – whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory that he ruled.