Solomon's Other Acts
10 1At the end of
2twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house,
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and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
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But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him.
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Therefore he said, "What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?" So they are called the land of
3Cabul to this day.
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Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.
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And this is the account of
4the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the LORD and his own house and
5the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and
6Hazor and
7Megiddo and Gezer
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(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed
8the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to
9his daughter, Solomon's wife;
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so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and
10Lower Beth-horon
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and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,
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and all the store cities that Solomon had, and
11the cities for his chariots, and the cities for
12his horsemen, and whatever Solomon
13desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel--
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14their descendants who were left after them in the land,
15whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction--
16these Solomon drafted to be
17slaves, and so they are to this day.
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But
18of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.
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These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work:
19who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
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But
20Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to
21her own house that Solomon had built for her.
22Then he built
23the Millo.
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Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the LORD, making offerings with it before the LORD. So he finished the house.
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King Solomon built a fleet of ships at
24Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
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And Hiram sent
25with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.
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And they went to
26Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.