1 Kings 9:9-11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁹ Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt. They held on to other gods and bowed in worship to them and served them. Because of this, the Lord brought all this ruin on them.’^(A)

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^(B) –  ¹¹ King Hiram of Tyre^(C) having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold^(D) for his every wish^(E) – King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.