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13 He said to Solomon, ‘My friend, you have given me some useless towns!’ Hiram called that region ‘Kabul Land’. It still has that name today.[a] 14 Hiram had sent to King Solomon about 4,000 kilograms of gold.

15 Solomon made people work on the buildings for him. This is how he used them to build the Lord's temple, the king's palace, the Millo and the wall around Jerusalem. They also did work on the towns called Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.

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  1. 9:13 ‘Kabul’ sounds like a Hebrew word that means ‘useless’. The towns were near Tyre.