1Kings:9:10-28

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* And it came to pass at the end of twenty years , when Solomon had built the two houses , the house of Jehovah and the king 's house , * Hiram the king of Tyre having furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and cypress-trees , and with gold , according to all his desire , -- that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee . * And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him ; and they did not please him . * And he said , What cities are these which thou hast given me , my brother ? And he called them the land of Cabul to this day . * And Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold . * And this is the account of the levy which king Solomon raised , to build the house of Jehovah , and his own house , and Millo , and the wall of Jerusalem , and Hazor , and Megiddo , and Gezer . * -- Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer , and burned it with fire , and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city , and given it as a dowry to his daughter , Solomon 's wife . * -- And Solomon built Gezer , and lower Beth-horon , * and Baalath , and Tadmor in the wilderness , in the land , * and all the store-cities that Solomon had , and cities for chariots , and cities for the horsemen , and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem , and on Lebanon , and in all the land of his dominion . * 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 , * their children that were left after them in the land , whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy , upon them did Solomon impose a tribute of bondservice until this day . * But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen ; but they were men of war , and his servants , and his chiefs , and his captains , and captains of his chariots , and his horsemen . * These were the chief superintendents that were over Solomon 's work , five hundred and fifty , that ruled over the people that wrought in the work . * But Pharaoh 's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which he had built for her : then he built Millo . * And three times in the year did Solomon offer up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar that he had built to Jehovah , and he burned incense upon that which was before Jehovah . So he finished the house . * And king Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion-Geber , which is beside Eloth , on the shore of the Red Sea , in the land of Edom . * And Hiram sent in the fleet his servants , shipmen that had knowledge of the sea , with the servants of Solomon ; * and they went to Ophir , and fetched thence gold , four hundred and twenty talents , and brought it to king Solomon .

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