¹³ So he said, ‘What are these towns you’ve given me, my brother? ’ So he called them the Land of Cabul,^[a] as they are still called today.^{(A) 14} Now Hiram had sent the king four tonnes^[b] of gold.^(B)

Solomon’s Forced Labour

¹⁵ This is the account of the forced labour^(C) that King Solomon had imposed to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces,^(D) the wall of Jerusalem,^(E) and Hazor,^(F) Megiddo,^(G) and Gezer.^(H)