14. Hiram had sent the king 9,000 pounds of gold.
15. This is the record of the forced laborers whom King Solomon drafted to build the Lord’s house, his own house, the Millo, the walls of Jerusalem, and ⌊the cities of⌋ Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16. (The king of Egypt captured Gezer, burned it down, and killed the Canaanites living there. Then he gave it to his daughter, Solomon’s wife, as a wedding present.)
17. So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth Horon,
18. Baalath, Tadmor in the desert (inside the country), and