1 Kings 9:13-28
English Standard Version
Chapter 9
13Therefore he said, "What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?" So they are called the land of Cabul to this day. 14Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.
15And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer
16(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon 's wife;
17so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and Lower Beth-horon
18and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,
19and all the store cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel —
21their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction — these Solomon drafted to be slaves, and so they are to this day.
22But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.
26King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
27And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.
28And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.
