1 Kings 9:10-28

10Now at the end of 20 years during which Solomon had built the two houses—Adonai’s House and the royal palace—

11since King Hiram of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar and cypress logs and with gold for all his desire—in return King Solomon gave Hiram 20 cities in the land of Galilee.

12So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.

13He said, “What are these cities that you’ve given me, my brother?” So they have been called the land of Kabul to this day.

14(Hiram had also sent to the king 120 talents of gold.)

15Now this was the purpose of the forced labor that King Solomon had imposed to build Adonai’s House, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.

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

17So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, lower Beth-horon,

18Baalath and Tadmor in the wilderness in the land,

19as well as all the storage cities, chariot cities and cavalry cities and that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

20As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel,

21even their children who remained in the land after them whom the children of Israel were not able to destroy utterly, on them Solomon imposed forced labor until this day.

22But Solomon did not make slaves of the children of Israel, for they were the men of war, his servants, his officials, his captains, his charioteers and his horsemen.

23These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, 550 who supervised the people who did the work.

24As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David to her house built for her, he built the Millo.

25Now three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar that he built for Adonai, burning incense with them on the altar that was before Adonai. When he finished the House,

26King Solomon also built a fleet of ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Sea of Reeds in the land of Edom.

27Hiram sent his servants with the fleet—sailors who knew the sea—along with Solomon’s servants.

28So they went to Ophir and took from there 420 talents of gold, and brought it to King Solomon.