9. And they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods and have worshipped and served them. That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster upon them.’ ”
10. When twenty years had passed since Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house
11. (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar and fir trees, along with gold, as he had requested), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
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.