1 Kings 9:10

Cities Given to Hiram

10 1It came about 2at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house

1 Kings 9:10 In-Context

8 "And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'
9 "And they will say, 'Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the LORD has brought all this adversity on them.' "
10 It came about at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house
11 (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire ), then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12 So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.

Cross References 2

  • 1. 2 Chronicles 8:1
  • 2. 1 Kings 6:37, 38; 1 Kings 7:1; 1 Kings 9:1
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