1 Kings 9:10–28

Cities Given to Hiram

^10aIt came about ^bat the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord 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), then King Solomon 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 ¹did not please him.

¹³He 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 120 talents of gold.

¹⁵Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon ^alevied to build the house of the Lord, 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, even ^athe cities for ¹his chariots and the cities for ^bhis horsemen, and ^2call that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land ³under 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,

^21atheir descendants who were left after them in the land ^bwhom the sons of Israel were unable to destroy utterly, ^cfrom them Solomon levied ^dforced laborers, even 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 officers who were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, ^bwho ruled over the people doing the work.

²⁴As soon as ^aPharaoh’s daughter came up from the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, ^bthen he built the Millo.

²⁵Now ^athree times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the Lord, burning incense with them on the altar which was before the Lord. So he finished the house.

²⁶King Solomon also built a ^afleet of ships in ^bEzion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the ¹Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

^27aAnd Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon.

²⁸They went to ^aOphir and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.