13 Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of (A)Cabul to this day. 14 Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents[a] of gold.

15 And this is the account of (B)the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and (C)the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and (D)Hazor and (E)Megiddo and Gezer

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:14 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

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