1 Kings 9:10–23

Cities Given to Hiram

^10aNow it happened that ^bat the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king’s house

¹¹(Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

¹²So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they were not right in his eyes.

¹³And he said, “What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?” So ¹they were called the land of ^2aCabul to this day.

^14aAnd Hiram sent to the king ¹120 talents of gold.

Solomon Builds Cities and Ships

¹⁵Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon ^araised up to build the house of Yahweh, his own house, the ^1bMillo, the wall of Jerusalem, ^cHazor, ^dMegiddo, and ^eGezer.

¹⁶For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the ^aCanaanites who lived in the city, and had ^bgiven it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

¹⁷So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower ^aBeth-horon

¹⁸and ^aBaalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

¹⁹and all the storage cities which Solomon had, and ^athe cities for ¹his chariots, and the cities for ^2bhis horsemen, and ^3call that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land ⁴under his rule.

²⁰As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel,

^21anamely, their sons who were left after them in the land ^bwhom the sons of Israel were unable to devote to destruction, from ^cthem Solomon raised up ^dforced laborers to this day.

²²But Solomon ^adid not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.

²³These were the ^1achief deputies who were over Solomon’s work, 550, ^bwho had dominion over the people doing the work.