13 So he said, “What are these towns you’ve given me, my brother?” So he called them the Land of Cabul,[a] as they are still called today.(A) 14 Now Hiram had sent the king nine thousand pounds[b] of gold.(B)

Solomon’s Forced Labor

15 This is the account of the forced labor(C) that King Solomon had imposed to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces,(D) the wall of Jerusalem,(E) and Hazor,(F) Megiddo,(G) and Gezer.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 9:13 = Like Nothing
  2. 9:14 Lit 120 talents

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