8. Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land, and to this house?’
9. and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore the Lord has brought all this evil on them.’”
10. At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the Lord’s house and the king’s house
11. (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12. Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.
13. He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.
14. Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
15. This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the Lord’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16. Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17. Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,
18. Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness,
19. all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.