BRAGADAYJAH 1012
Solomon Builds a Navy
King Hiram had good reason not to be pleased with the cities
that King Solomon had given to him; for Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up
against and taken Gezer and burnt it with fire and slain the Canaanites that
dwelt therein, and given it as a present to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. And
Solomon rebuilt Gezer and Bethhoron and its surroundings and Baalath, and
Tadmor in the wilderness in the land. And he also built storage and cities for
his chariots and cities for his horsemen and whatever else he wanted to build,
in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all his dominion. And on all the people that
were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites which
were not of the children of Israel, including their children that were left
after them in the land whom the children were not able utterly to destroy,
Solomon imposed bond service. But on the children of Israel Solomon did not
make bondsmen; but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and
his captains and rulers of his chariots, and horsemen. And the number of the
chief officers that were in charge of Solomon’s works were five hundred and
fifty. In the meantime, Solomon built a navy on the shore of the Red Sea in the
land of Edom. And Hiram sent in among Solomon’s seamen his own who had
knowledge of the sea. And they sailed to Ophir from which they brought back to
Solomon, four hundred and twenty talents of gold
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