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1 Kings 9:10
“It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 9
Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?
and they shall answer, 'Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.
It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house
(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.
Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn't please him.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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