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1Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
2the Lord appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3And the Lord said to him:
10Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the Lord and the royal palace,
11King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.[#9:11 Or pine or juniper or fir]
12So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
13“What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram, and he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.[#9:13 Cabul sounds like the Hebrew for good-for-nothing.]
14And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.[#9:14 120 talents is approximately 4.52 tons or 4.1 metric tons of gold.]
15This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the Lord , his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.[#9:15 Hebrew the Millo; also in verse 24]
16Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,
18Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,[#9:18 Alternate MT reading; the other alternate reads Tadmor; #9:18 Hebrew in the wilderness in the land]
19as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.[#9:19 Or horsemen or charioteers]
20As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—
21their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction —Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.[#9:21 Forms of the Hebrew cherem refer to the giving over of things or persons to the , either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.]
22But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slavery, because they were his men of war, his servants, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.
23They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.
24As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
25Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord , burning incense with them before the Lord . So he completed the temple.
26King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.[#9:26 Eloth is a variant of Elath; see LXX, 2 Kings 14:22, and 2 Kings 16:6.; #9:26 Or the Sea of Reeds]
27And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
28They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents —and delivered it to Solomon.[#9:28 420 talents is approximately 15.8 tons or 14.4 metric tons of gold.]