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Hiram: 13 What is this, my brother? Do you call these cities?

People still refer to these cities as the land of Cabul, meaning “worthless,” even today.

14 Hiram gave approximately 9,000 pounds[a] of gold to Solomon.

15 King Solomon used foreign slave laborers, taken from cities he conquered, for the construction of the Eternal’s temple, the king’s palace, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. What follows is the report of it:

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Footnotes

  1. 9:14 120 talents

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