1 Kings 9:12

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and cypress-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire — that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

13And he said: 'What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother?' And they were called the land of Cabul, unto this day.

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Cross References

Judges 14:3Then his father and his mother said unto him: 'Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?' And Samson said unto his father: 'Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.'

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 9:11-15

Solomon and Hiram. ( b. c. 1001.) 10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord , and the king's house, 11 ( Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. 13 And he said, What cities are these… Read the whole commentary →

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