009:012 Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had
given him; and they didn't please him.
009:013 He said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?
He called them the land of Cabul to this day.
009:014 Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
009:015 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised,
to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo,
and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
009:016 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt
it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city,
and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
009:017 Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,
009:018 and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
009:019 and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities
for his chariots, and 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.
009:020 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites,
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
who were not of the children of Israel;
009:021 their children who were left after them in the land,
whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy,
of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.
009:022 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants;
but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes,
and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
009:023 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work,
five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored
in the work.
009:024 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David
to her house which [Solomon] had built for her:
then did he build Millo.
009:025 Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings
and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh,
burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh.
So he finished the house.
009:026 King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is
beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds},
in the land of Edom.
009:027 Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge
of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
009:028 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred
and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
010:001 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning
the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.
010:002 She came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels
that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones;
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