And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.(2 Chronicles 7:22)

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,(2 Chronicles 8:1)

That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.(2 Chronicles 8:2)

And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.(2 Chronicles 8:4)

Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;(2 Chronicles 8:5)

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.(2 Chronicles 8:6)