1 Kings 9:9-11

New International Version - UK

⁹ People will answer, “Because they have forsaken the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshipping and serving them – that is why the Lord brought all this disaster on them.”’

Solomon’s other activities

¹⁰ At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings – the temple of the Lord and the royal palace – ¹¹ King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.