² Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram^[a] had given him, and settled Israelites in them.

¹¹ King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold^(A) he wanted. ¹² But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. ¹³ “What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?” he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul,^[a](B) a name they have to this day. ¹⁴ Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents^[b] of gold.^(C)

¹⁵ Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted^(D) to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,^[c](E) the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor,^(F) Megiddo and Gezer.^{(G) 16} (Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter,^(H) Solomon’s wife. ¹⁷ And Solomon rebuilt Gezer.) He built up Lower Beth Horon,^{(I) 18} Baalath,^(J) and Tadmor^[d] in the desert, within his land,