² He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.

¹¹ (Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

¹² But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

¹³ And he said, What sort of towns are these which you have given me, my brother? So they were named the land of Cabul, to this day.

¹⁴ And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

¹⁵ Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

¹⁶ Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ...

¹⁷ ... and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,

¹⁸ And Baalath and Tamar in the waste land, in that land;