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1 Kings 9:11-18 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

11. Hiram, king of Tyre, supplying Solomon with all the cedar wood, fir wood, and gold he wished, and King Solomon giving Hiram in return twenty cities in the land of Galilee—

12. Hiram left Tyre to see the cities Solomon had given him, but he was not satisfied with them.

13. So he said, “What are these cities you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.

14. Hiram, however, had sent King Solomon one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

15. This is an account of the conscript labor force King Solomon raised in order to build the house of the Lord, his own house, Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, Gezer

16. (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had come up and taken Gezer and, after destroying it by fire and slaying all the Canaanites living in the city, had given it as a farewell gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife;

17. Solomon then rebuilt Gezer), Lower Beth-horon,

18. Baalath, Tamar in the desert of Judah,

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