1 Kings 9:10–23

Solomon and Hiram Exchange Gifts

¹⁰Now ^sit happened at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house ^11t(Hiram the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress and gold, as much as he desired), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. ¹²Then Hiram went from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, but they did not please him. ¹³So he said, “What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” ^uAnd he called them the land of ³Cabul, as they are to this day. ¹⁴Then Hiram sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

Solomon’s Additional Achievements

¹⁵And this is the reason for ^vthe labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of the Lord, his own house, ⁴the ^wMillo, the wall of Jerusalem, ^xHazor, ^yMegiddo, and ^zGezer. ¹⁶(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, ^ahad killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.) ¹⁷And Solomon built Gezer, Lower ^bBeth Horon, ^18cBaalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, ¹⁹all the storage cities that Solomon had, cities for ^dhis chariots and cities for his ^ecavalry, and whatever Solomon ^fdesired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

^20gAll the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel—²¹that is, their descendants ^hwho were left in the land after them, ⁱwhom the children of Israel had not been able to destroy completely—^jfrom these Solomon raised ^kforced labor, as it is to this day. ²²But of the children of Israel Solomon ^lmade no forced laborers, because they were men of war and his servants: his officers, his captains, commanders of his chariots, and his cavalry.

²³Others were chiefs of the officials who were over Solomon’s work: ^mfive hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people who did the work.