1 Kings 9:8-12
1 Kings 9:8
And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and hiss and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and this house?’
1 Kings 9:9
And they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped and served them, for that reason the Lord has brought all this adversity on them.’ ” Cities Given to Hiram
1 Kings 9:10
Now it came about at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house
1 Kings 9:11
(Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and juniper timber and gold, satisfying all his desire), that King Solomon then gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
1 Kings 9:12
So Hiram left Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.