1 Kings 9
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1 Kings 9:11-18

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,

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