1 Kings 9:9-11

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁹ Then they will answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, Who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have laid hold of other gods and have worshiped and served them; therefore the Lord has brought on them all this evil.

¹⁰ At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the Lord’s house and the king’s house,

¹¹ For which Hiram king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with as much cedar and cypress timber and gold as he desired, King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.