Scripture · Old Testament
1 Kings 9:12
1 Kings 9:12 is verse 12 of 1 Kings chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
King James Version
And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
World English Bible
Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.
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1 Kings 9:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible
10 Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
11 King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.
12 So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
13 “What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram, and he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.
14 And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 22:34“I have sinned,” Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “for I did not realize that you were standing in the road to confront me. And now, if this is displeasing in your sight, I will go back home.”
Judges 14:3But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”