9. Then they will answer, “We know why the Lord did this. The people of Israel rejected the Lord their God, who rescued their ancestors from Egypt, and they started worshipping other gods.”
10. It took twenty years for the Lord's temple and Solomon's palace to be built.
11. Later, Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre twenty towns in the region of Galilee to repay him for the cedar, pine, and gold he had given Solomon.
12. When Hiram went to see the towns, he did not like them.