9. And they will say, ‘Because they have forsaken Yahweh their God who brought their ancestors out from the land of Egypt and they embraced other gods and bowed down to them and served them. Therefore, Yahweh brought on them all of this disaster.’ ”
10. It happened at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the house of the king,
11. since Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with wood of cedar and with wood of cypresses and with the gold according to all his desire, then King Solomon gave twenty cities in the land of the Galilee to Hiram.
12. So Hiram went out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but they were not right in his eyes.
13. So he said, “What are these cities that you have given to me, my brother?” So they are called the land of Cabul until this day.
14. Then Hiram sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
15. This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the house of Yahweh and his house, the Millo, the walls of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had gone up and captured Gezer and burnt it with fire. He had also killed the Canaanites who were living in the city and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon.
17. Solomon rebuilt Gezer and Lower Beth-Horon,
18. as well as Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness in the land;