2 Chronicles 8:2

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2 Chronicles 8:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,

2 Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there.

3 Then Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and captured it.

4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.

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1 Kings 9:11

King 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.

1 Kings 9:12

So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.

1 Kings 9:13

“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.

1 Kings 9:14

And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.

1 Kings 9:15

This 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.

1 Kings 9:16

Pharaoh 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.

1 Kings 9:17

So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,

1 Kings 9:18

Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,