1 Kings 9:11

New International Reader's Version

King Solomon gave 20 towns in Galilee to Hiram, the king of Tyre. That’s because Hiram had provided him with all the cedar and juniper logs he wanted. He had also provided Solomon with all the gold he wanted.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:10

Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. It took him 20 years to construct those two buildings.

1 Kings 9:12

Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him. But he wasn’t pleased with them.

1 Kings 9:14

Hiram had sent four and a half tons of gold to Solomon.

2 Chronicles 2:16

And we’ll cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need. We’ll make rafts out of them. We’ll float them by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”

2 Chronicles 8:2

Solomon rebuilt the villages Hiram had given him. Solomon had Israelites make their homes in them.

Amos 1:9

The Lord says, “The people of Tyre have sinned again and again. So I will judge them. They captured whole communities. They sold them to Edom. They did not honor the treaty of friendship they had made.

Joshua 20:7

So the Israelites set apart Kedesh in Galilee. It’s in the hill country of Naphtali. They set apart Shechem. It’s in the hill country of Ephraim. They set apart Kiriath Arba. It’s in the hill country of Judah. Kiriath Arba is also called Hebron.