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At the end of twenty years, having built the two buildings, The Temple of God and his personal palace,
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Solomon rewarded Hiram king of Tyre with a gift of twenty villages in the district of Galilee. Hiram had provided him with all the cedar and cypress and gold that he had wanted.
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But when Hiram left Tyre to look over the villages that Solomon had given him, he didn't like what he saw.
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He said, "What kind of reward is this, my friend? Twenty backwoods hick towns!" People still refer to them that way.
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This is all Hiram got from Solomon in exchange for four and a half tons of gold!
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This is the work record of the labor force that King Solomon raised to build The Temple of God, his palace, the defense complex (the Millo), the Jerusalem wall, and the fortified cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
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Pharaoh king of Egypt had come up and captured Gezer, torched it, and killed all the Canaanites who lived there. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
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So Solomon rebuilt Gezer.
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Baalath, and Tamar in the desert, back-country
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storehouse villages, and villages for chariots and horses. Solomon built widely and extravagantly in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and wherever he fancied.
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The remnants from the original inhabitants of the land (Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites - all non-Israelites),