1 Kings 9:9-11

Modern English Version

⁹ And they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods and have worshipped and served them. That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster upon them.’ ”

Solomon’s Other Activities^(A)

¹⁰ When twenty years had passed since Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house ¹¹ (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar and fir trees, along with gold, as he had requested), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.