a 2 Chr 8:1
b 1 Kin 6:37, 38; 7:1; 9:1
f Josh 19:27
g 1 Kin 9:11
h 1 Kin 5:13
j 2 Sam 5:9; 1 Kin 9:24
k Josh 11:1; 19:36
l Josh 17:11
m Judg 1:29
n Josh 16:10
o 1 Kin 3:1; 7:8
p Josh 10:10; 16:3; 21:22; 2 Chr 8:5
q Josh 19:44
r 1 Kin 10:26; 2 Chr 1:14
u 1 Kin 4:26
w 1 Kin 9:1
y Judg 1:21-29; 3:1
z Josh 15:63; 17:12, 13
aa Judg 1:28, 35
ab Gen 9:25, 26; Ezra 2:55, 58
ac Lev 25:39
ae 2 Chr 8:10
af 1 Kin 5:16
ag 1 Kin 3:1; 7:8
ah 2 Sam 5:9; 1 Kin 9:15; 11:27; 2 Chr 32:5
ai Ex 23:14-17; Deut 16:16
aj 1 Kin 22:48
ak Num 33:35; Deut 2:8; 1 Kin 22:48
am 1 Kin 5:6, 9; 10:11
an 1 Chr 29:4; 2 Chr 8:18

1 Kings 9:10-28

Cities Given to Hiram

10 aIt came about bat the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house 11(Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they ▼
▼ Lit were not right in his sight
did not please him. 13He said, “What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?” So ▼
▼ Lit he called them
they were called the land of ▼
▼ I.e. as good as nothing
 , fCabul to this day. 14 gAnd Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

15Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon hlevied to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the ▼
▼ I.e. citadel
 , jMillo, the wall of Jerusalem, kHazor, lMegiddo, and mGezer. 16For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the nCanaanites who lived in the city, and had ogiven it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 17So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower pBeth-horon 18and qBaalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, 19and all the storage cities which Solomon had, even rthe cities for ▼
▼ Lit the
his chariots and the cities for ▼
▼ Lit the
 , uhis horsemen, and ▼
▼ Lit the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem
 , wall that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land ▼
▼ Lit of
under his rule. 20As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel, 21 ytheir descendants who were left after them in the land zwhom the sons of Israel were unable to destroy utterly, aafrom them Solomon levied abforced laborers, even to this day. 22But Solomon acdid not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.

23These were the ▼
▼ Or officers of the deputies
 , aechief officers who were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, afwho ruled over the people doing the work.

24As soon as agPharaoh’s daughter came up from the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her, ahthen he built the Millo.

25Now aithree times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the Lord, burning incense with them on the altar which was before the Lord. So he finished the house.

26King Solomon also built a ajfleet of ships in akEzion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the ▼
▼ Lit Sea of Reeds
Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 amAnd Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon. 28They went to anOphir and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.
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