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King Hiram of Tyre had provided him with all the cedar and pine and with all the gold he wanted for this work. After it was finished, King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the region of Galilee.
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Hiram went to see them, and he did not like them.
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So he said to Solomon, "So these, my brother, are the towns you have given me!" For this reason the area is still called Cabul.
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Hiram had sent Solomon almost five tons of gold.
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King Solomon used forced labor to build the Temple and the palace, to fill in land on the east side of the city, and to build the city wall. He also used it to rebuild the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer
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(The king of Egypt had attacked Gezer and captured it, killing its inhabitants and setting fire to the city. Then he gave it as a wedding present to his daughter when she married Solomon,
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and Solomon rebuilt it.) Using his forced labor, Solomon also rebuilt Lower Beth Horon,
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Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness of Judah,
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the cities where his supplies were kept, the cities for his horses and chariots, and everything else he wanted to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and elsewhere in his kingdom.
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For his forced labor Solomon used the descendants of the people of Canaan whom the Israelites had not killed when they took possession of their land. These included Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, whose descendants continue to be slaves down to the present time.