1 Kings 9:8-10

New American Standard Bible

⁸ And this house will become ^(A)a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and ^[a]hiss and say, ‘^(B)Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and this house?’ ⁹ And they will say, ‘^(C)Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and they ^[b]adopted other gods and worshiped and served them, for that reason the Lord has brought all this adversity on them.’”

Cities Given to Hiram

^10 (D)Now it came about ^(E)at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house