Verse 1

After twenty years during which Solomon built the house of the Lord and his own house,

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  • 1 Kgs 9:10-28 : 10 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, 11 King Hiram of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar, juniper wood, and gold, according to all his desire. King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities Solomon had given him, they did not please him. 13 So he said, 'What are these cities you have given me, my brother?' And he called them 'Cabul,' which they are still called to this day. 14 Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold. 15 This is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon's wife. 17 Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon, 18 Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, within the land, 19 along with all the storage cities Solomon had, the cities for his chariots and for his cavalry, and whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his dominion. 20 All the people who were left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites— 21 their descendants who remained in the land, because the Israelites were not able to destroy them completely—Solomon conscripted them for forced labor, as they are to this day. 22 But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites; they were his soldiers, servants, officials, commanders, captains, and commanders of his chariots and cavalry. 23 These were the chief officials over Solomon's work: 550 who supervised the people doing the labor. 24 As soon as Pharaoh's daughter went up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he built the Millo. 25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense before the LORD with them, and so he fulfilled the temple obligations. 26 King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, near Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom. 27 Hiram sent his servants, experienced sailors, who knew the sea, to work with Solomon's servants on the fleet. 28 They went to Ophir, took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.