8 And as for athis house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, b‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’
9 Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought all this acalamity on them.’ ”
Solomon and Hiram Exchange Gifts
10 Now ait happened at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house
11 a(Hiram the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress and gold, as much as he desired), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12 Then Hiram went from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, but they did not please him.
13 So he said, “What kind of cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” aAnd he called them the land of1 Cabul, as they are to this day.
14 Then Hiram sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.
Solomon’s Additional Achievements
15 And this is the reason for athe labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of the Lord, his own house,1 the bMillo, the wall of Jerusalem, cHazor, dMegiddo, and eGezer.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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