1 Kings 9:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

Common English Bible

¹² Hiram went from Tyre to inspect the towns Solomon had given him. They didn’t seem adequate in his view.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And Hiram went out of Tyre, so that he might view the towns that Solomon had given to him. And they did not please him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see the towns which Solomon had given him, and they pleased him not.

1 Kings 9:12 Cross References

1 Kings 9:11

King Hiram of Tyre having supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

1 Kings 9:13

Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of Cabul to this day.

Numbers 22:34

Then Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing in the road to oppose me. Now therefore, if it is displeasing to you, I will return home.”

Judges 14:3

But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among your kin or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, because she pleases me.”