1 Kings 9:11-18

11King Hiram of Tyre having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every wish  — King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

12So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.

13So he said, “What are these towns you’ve given me, my brother?” So he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are still called today.

14Now Hiram had sent the king nine thousand pounds of gold.

15This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon had imposed to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

16Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He then burned it, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

17Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,

18Baalath, Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,