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1 Kings 9:12
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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.  
16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, ahad killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.)  
Verse Comparison: 1 Kings 9:12

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American Standard Version
And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

Amplified® Bible
And Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.

Contemporary English Version
When Hiram went to see the towns, he did not like them.

Darby English Version
And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him; and they did not please him.

Good News Bible
Hiram went to see them, and he did not like them.

King James Version
And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

New American Standard Bible
So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.

New International Version
But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

New King James Version
Then Hiram went from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, but they did not please him.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.

Revised Standard Version
But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, they did not please him.

Young's Literal Translation
And Hiram cometh out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon hath given to him, and they have not been right in his eyes,


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