1 Kings 9:10–23

¹⁰And ^rit came to pass at the end of ^stwenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, ¹¹(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. ¹²And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. ¹³And he said, ^tWhat cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day. ¹⁴And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

¹⁵And this is the reason of ^uthe levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and ^xMillo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and ^yHazor, and ^zMegiddo, and ^aGezer. ¹⁶For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the ^bCanaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, ^cSolomon’s wife. ¹⁷And Solomon built Gezer, and ^dBeth-horon the nether, ¹⁸and ^eBaalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, ¹⁹and all the cities of ^fstore that Solomon had, and ^gcities for his ^hchariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. ²⁰And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, ²¹their children ⁱthat were left after them in the land, ^jwhom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, ^kupon those did Solomon levy a tribute of ^lbondservice unto this day. ²²But of the children of Israel did Solomon ^mmake no bondman: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. ²³These were the chief of the ⁿofficers that were over Solomon’s work, ^ofive hundred and fifty, ^pwhich bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.