15 Now this is the matter of the forced labour that King Shelomoh (Solomon) brought up to build Yahweh’s residence and his palace, the raised terraces and the Yerushalem (Jerusalem) city wall, and the cities of Hatsor, Megidon and Gezer. 16 (Mitsrayim’s (Egypt’s) King Par’oh (Pharaoh) had seized Gezer and set fire to it and killed the Kena’anim (Canaanites) who had lived in the city. Then he’d given it as a wedding present to his daughter when Shelomoh had married her.) 17 Shelomoh rebuilt Gezer and lower Beyt-Horon, 18 Ba’alat, Tadmor in the Yehudah (Judah) wilderness, 19 all of Shelomoh’s storehouse cities, and the cities for his chariots and horses. They also built whatever else Shelomoh wanted—in Yerushalem, in Levanon, and in the entire area of his dominion. 20 All the remaining Amori, Hiti, Perizi, Hivi, and Yevusi people (they weren’t descendants of Yisrael (Israel)), 21 had descendants who continued living in Yisrael. These were people groups that the Israelis hadn’t been able to annihilate so Shelomoh used them for forced labour (where they remain to this day). 22 But he didn’t consign any Israelis to slavehood, because they were his warriors and servants, and his officers and captains, and the commanders of his chariots and horsemen. 23 Some were commanders of the five hundred and fifty work supervisors.

24 Once Par’oh’s daughter moved out of the City of David to the palace that he’d built for her, then he built the raised terraces.

25 Shelomoh offered burnt offerings and peace offerings three times that year[ref] on the altar that he’d built for Yahweh, and he burnt incense to Yahweh with it, and he completed the temple.

26 King Shelomoh constructed a fleet of ships in Etsyon-Gever, which is near Eylot on the shore of the Red Sea in the Edom region. 27 King Hiram sent some of his servants who were experienced sailors to serve with Shelomoh’s men. 28 They sailed to Ofir and brought back fourteen tonnes of gold that they took to Shelomoh.