12. Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him. But he wasn't pleased with them.
13. "My friend," he asked, "what have you given me? What kind of towns are these?" So he called them the Land of Cabul. And that's what they are still called to this very day.
14. Hiram had sent four and a half tons of gold to Solomon.
15. King Solomon forced people to work hard for him. Here is a record of what they did. They built the Lord's temple and Solomon's palace. They filled in the low places. They rebuilt the wall of Jerusalem. They built up Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.
16. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had attacked Gezer and captured it. He had set it on fire. He had killed the Canaanites who lived there. Then he had given Gezer as a wedding gift to his daughter. She was Solomon's wife.
17. Solomon rebuilt Gezer. He built up Lower Beth Horon
18. and Baalath. He built up Tadmor in the desert. All of those towns were in his land.
19. He built up all of the cities where he could store things. He also built up the towns for his chariots and horses. He built anything he wanted to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon and all of the territory he ruled over.