1 Kings 9:13-18 Modern English Version (MEV)

13. He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Kabul to this day.

14. Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

15. This is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the Lord and his own house, Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

16. For Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had gone up against and conquered Gezer and burned it with fire and slain the Canaanites that lived in the city and given it as a present to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

17. Solomon built Gezer and Lower Beth Horon

18. and Baalath and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

1 Kings 9