King Hiram’s Twenty Towns

¹⁰ At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the two houses, the Lord’s temple and the royal palace^(A)— ¹¹ King Hiram of Tyre^(B) having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold^(C) for his every wish^(D)—King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee. ¹² So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them. ¹³ So he said, “What are these towns you’ve given me, my brother?” So he called them the Land of Cabul,^[a] as they are still called today.^{(E) 14} Now Hiram had sent the king nine thousand pounds^[b] of gold.^(F)