1 Kings 9:10–28

Solomon’s Other Acts

^10yAt the end of ^ztwenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house, ¹¹and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. ¹²But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him. ¹³Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of ^aCabul to this day. ¹⁴Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents² of gold.

¹⁵And this is the account of ^bthe forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and ^cthe Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and ^dHazor and ^eMegiddo and Gezer ¹⁶(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed ^fthe Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to ^ghis daughter, Solomon’s wife; ¹⁷so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and ^hLower Beth-horon ¹⁸and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,^{3 19}and all the store cities that Solomon had, and ⁱthe cities for his chariots, and the cities for ^jhis horsemen, and whatever Solomon ^kdesired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. ²⁰All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel— ^21ltheir descendants who were left after them in the land, ^mwhom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction⁴—ⁿthese Solomon drafted to be ^oslaves, and so they are to this day. ²²But ^pof the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.

²³These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work: ^q550 ^rwho had charge of the people who carried on the work.

²⁴But ^gPharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to ^sher own house that Solomon had built for her. ^tThen he built ^uthe Millo.

²⁵Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the Lord, making offerings with it⁵ before the Lord. So he finished the house.

²⁶King Solomon built a fleet of ships at ^vEzion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. ²⁷And Hiram sent ^wwith the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon. ²⁸And they went to ^xOphir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.