8. This house shall become a heap of ruins; every passerby shall be astonished and shall hiss [with surprise] and say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?
9. Then they will answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, Who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have laid hold of other gods and have worshiped and served them; therefore the Lord has brought on them all this evil.
10. At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the Lord's house and the king's house,
11. For which Hiram king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with as much cedar and cypress timber and gold as he desired, King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12. And Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.
13. He said, What are these cities worth which you have given me, my brother? So they are called the Cabul [unproductive] Land to this day.
14. And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold.
15. This is the account of the levy [of forced labor] which King Solomon raised to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16. For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer, burned it with fire, slew the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
17. So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and Lower Beth-horon,
18. Baalath and Tamar (Tadmor) in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,
19. And all the store cities which Solomon had and cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20. As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites,