⁵ He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon^(A) and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars, ⁶ as well as Baalath^(B) 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^(C) (these people were not Israelites).