12 So Hiram traveled from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, but when he saw them, he was not pleased.
13 He asked, “What good are these towns you have given me, my brother?” So he named them the Land of Cabul, and they are still called that today.
14 Hiram had sent Solomon about nine thousand pounds of gold.
15 This is the account of the forced labor Solomon used to build the Temple and the palace. He had them fill in the land and build the wall around Jerusalem. He also had them rebuild the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16 (In the past the king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. After burning it, he killed the Canaanites who lived there. Then he gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who married Solomon.
17 So Solomon rebuilt it.) He also built the cities of Lower Beth Horon
18 and Baalath, as well as Tadmor, which is in the desert.