1 Kings 9:11-18

11⌞When King Solomon had finished,⌟ he gave King Hiram of Tyre 20 cities in Galilee. (Hiram had supplied Solomon with as much cedar and cypress lumber and gold as he wanted.)

12Hiram left Tyre to see the cities Solomon gave him. However, they didn’t please him.

13“What kind of cities have you given me, brother?” he asked. So he named it the region of Cabul [Good for Nothing]. (⌞They’re⌟ still ⌞called⌟ that today.)

14Hiram had sent the king 9,000 pounds of gold.

15This is the record of the forced laborers whom King Solomon drafted to build the Lord’s house, his own house, the Millo, the walls of Jerusalem, and ⌞the cities of⌟ Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

16(The king of Egypt captured Gezer, burned it down, and killed the Canaanites living there. Then he gave it to his daughter, Solomon’s wife, as a wedding present.)

17So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth Horon,

18Baalath, Tadmor in the desert (inside the country), and