9. And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.
10. And when twenty years were ended after Solomon had built the two houses, that is, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king,
11. (Hiram the king of Tyre furnishing Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and gold according to all he had need of) then Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12. And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the towns which Solomon had given him, and they pleased him not,
13. And he said: Are these the cities which thou hast given me, brother? And he called them the land of Chabul, unto this day.
14. And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
15. This is the sum of the expenses, which king Solomon offered to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Mello, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Heser, and Mageddo, and Gazer.
16. Pharao the king of Egypt came up and took Gazer, and burnt it with fire: and slew the Chanaanite that dwelt in the city, and gave it for a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
17. So Solomon built: Gazer, and Beth-horon the nether,
18. And Baalath, and Palmira in the land of the wilderness.
19. And all the towns that belonged to himself, and were not walled, he fortified, the cities also of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and whatsoever he had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in Libanus, and in all the land of his dominion.
20. All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites, and Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the children of Israel:
21. Their children, that were left in the land, to wit, such as the children of Israel had not been able to destroy, Solomon made tributary unto this day.
22. But of the children of Israel Solomon made not any to be bondmen, but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and captains, and overseers of the chariots and horses.
23. And there were five hundred and fifty chief officers set over all the works of Solomon, and they had people under them, and had charge over the appointed works.
24. And the daughter of Pharao came up out of the city of David to her house, which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Mello.
25. Solomon also offered three times every year holocausts, and victims of peace offerings upon the altar which he had built to the Lord, and he burnt incense before the Lord: and the temple was finished.
26. And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is by Ailath on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.