1 Kings 9:10-14

Modern English Version

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. ¹² Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities Solomon had given him, and he was not pleased with them. ¹³ He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” And he called them the land of Kabul to this day. ¹⁴ Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents^[a] of gold.