Add parallel Print Page Options

Foreign Affairs and Building Projects

10 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace,[a] 11 King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre twenty towns in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted. 12 When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.[b]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:10 tn Heb “the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king.”
  2. 1 Kings 9:12 tn Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”