1 Kings 9
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1 Kings 9:11-18

11(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?” And he called them the land of Cabul, as they are to this day.

14Then Hiram sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

15And this is the reason for the labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

16(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, had 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 Beth Horon,

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

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