⁶ as well as Baalath^(A) 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 he ruled.

⁷ There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites^(B) (these people were not Israelites). ⁸ Solomon conscripted^(C) the descendants of all these people remaining in the land—whom the Israelites had not destroyed—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.