8. This House, now so exalted—everyone passing by it will gasp in shock and hiss, saying: ‘Why has Adonai done thus to this land and to this House?’
9. They will be told: ‘Because they forsook Adonai their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, worshipped them and served them, therefore Adonai has brought all this evil on them.’”
10. Now at the end of 20 years during which Solomon had built the two houses—Adonai’s House and the royal palace—
11. since King Hiram of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar and cypress logs and with gold for all his desire—in return King Solomon gave Hiram 20 cities in the land of Galilee.
12. So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
13. He said, “What are these cities that you’ve given me, my brother?” So they have been called the land of Kabul to this day.
14. (Hiram had also sent to the king 120 talents of gold.)
15. Now this was the purpose of the forced labor that King Solomon had imposed to build Adonai’s House, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.
16. Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, captured Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and given it as a dowry for his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17. So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, lower Beth-horon,
18. Baalath and Tadmor in the wilderness in the land,
19. as well as all the storage cities, chariot cities and cavalry cities and that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20. As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel,
21. even their children who remained in the land after them whom the children of Israel were not able to destroy utterly, on them Solomon imposed forced labor until this day.
22. But Solomon did not make slaves of the children of Israel, for they were the men of war, his servants, his officials, his captains, his charioteers and his horsemen.
23. These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, 550 who supervised the people who did the work.
24. As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David to her house built for her, he built the Millo.
25. Now three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar that he built for Adonai, burning incense with them on the altar that was before Adonai. When he finished the House,