⁶and Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
6. Baalath] A city in the tribe of (the southern) Dan not far from Gezer and Beth-horon (1 Kings ix. 18).
cities for his chariots] See note on i. 14.
7–10 (= 1 Kings ix. 20–23).
Solomon’s Task-workers.
⁷As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel;
7. Hittites ... Jebusites] See notes on 1 Chronicles i. 13–15.
⁸of their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants, unto this day.
8. consumed not] But in Kings, were not able to consume, a displeasing remark, which the Chronicler therefore softened down.
a levy of bondservants] Compare the notes on ii. 2, 17.
⁹But 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 rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.