12. Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities Solomon had given him, and he was not pleased with them.
13. He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Kabul to this day.
14. Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.
15. This is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the Lord and his own house, Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16. For Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had gone up against and conquered Gezer and burned it with fire and slain the Canaanites that lived in the city and given it as a present to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17. Solomon built Gezer and Lower Beth Horon
18. and Baalath and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
19. and all the storage cities that Solomon had, cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen and all that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion.
20. All the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not children of Israel,
21. the descendants of those who were left in the land and whom the people of Israel were not able to utterly destroy, were conscripted by Solomon for slave labor to this day.
22. But Solomon did not make any children of Israel into slaves, but instead used them as men of war, as his servants, his leaders, his captains, rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.