New American Standard Bible

1 Kings 9:10-20 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

10. It came about at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house

11. (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

12. So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.

13. He said, "What are these cities which you have given me, my brother?" So they were called the land of Cabul to this day.

14. And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

15. Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied 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 captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

17. So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower Beth-horon

18. and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

19. and all the storage cities which Solomon had, even the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and all that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.

20. As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel,