10And at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the temple of the LORD, and the king's house 11(Now Hiram, the king of Tyre, had furnished Solomon with cedar and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him. 13And he said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the “land of Cabul” unto this day. 14And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold (almost 8,000 pounds).

15And this is the reason of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted, to build the temple of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 16For Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and given it for a present to his daughter, Solomon's wife. 17And Solomon built Gezer, Beth-horon the lower, 18Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land, 19And all the cities for storage that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 20As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel, 21Their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of those did Solomon conscript for forced labor, and are so unto this day (the day of that writing). 22But Solomon made no slaves of the children of Israel, but they were men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. 23These were the leaders of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who did the work. 24But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house, which Solomon had built for her; then he built Millo. 25And three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burned incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. And so he finished the house (of the LORD).

26And King Solomon built a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27And Hiram sent his servants, seamen, who had knowledge of the sea, in the fleet with Solomon’s servants. 28And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred twenty talents (about 27,700 pounds), and brought it to king Solomon.