1 Kings 9:10-15
Solomon’s Other Acts
10 aAt the end of btwenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house, 11and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him. 13Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of cCabul to this day. 14Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of gold. 15And this is the account of ethe forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and fthe Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and gHazor and hMegiddo and Gezer
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