12. So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
13. So he said, “What are these towns you’ve given me, my brother? ” So he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are still called today.
14. Now Hiram had sent the king 9,000 pounds of gold.
15. This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon had imposed to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16. Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He then burned it down, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17. Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,
18. Baalath, Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,
19. all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, the chariot cities, the cavalry cities, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or anywhere else in the land of his dominion.
20. As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites —