1 Kings 9:11-18

11(Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with as much cedar and cypress timber [from Lebanon] and gold as he desired), at that time King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee (northern Israel).

12So Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.

13He said, “What are these cities [good for] which you have given me, my brother?” So they have been called the land of Cabul (like nothing, unproductive) to this day.

14And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

15Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the Millo (fortification), the wall of Jerusalem, [and the fortress cities of] Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

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

17So Solomon rebuilt [and fortified] Gezer and Lower Beth-horon,

18Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,