9 ¹⁰ At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house, 9 ¹¹ and 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. 9 ¹² But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, they did not please him. 9 ¹³ Therefore he said, "What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?" So they are called the land of Cabul to this day. 9 ¹⁴ Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold. - Further achievements of Solomon.  1Kgs.9.15-28- 2Chr.8.3-18 | KNSB Contents | notes

9 ¹⁵ And this is the account of the forced labour which King Solomon levied to build the house of Yahweh and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer 9 ¹⁶ (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burnt it with fire, and had slain the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife; 9 ¹⁷ so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and Lower Beth-horon 9 ¹⁸ and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, 9 ¹⁹ and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 9 ²⁰ All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel - 9 ²¹ their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to destroy utterly - these Solomon made a forced levy of slaves, and so they are to this day. 9 ²² But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves; they were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.

9 ²³ These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work: five hundred and fifty, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.

9 ²⁴ But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house which Solomon had built for her; then he built the Millo.

9 ²⁵ Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

9 ²⁶ King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 9 ²⁷ And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon; 9 ²⁸ and they went to Ophir, and brought from there gold, to the amount of four hundred and twenty talents; and they brought it to King Solomon.