2Chr 8:1 Cross References
2 Chronicles 8:1
1: It was now twenty years since Solomon had become king, and the great building projects of the LORD's Temple and his own royal palace were completed.
1 Kings 9:10
- Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built the Temple of the LORD and the royal palace,
- Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to King Hiram of Tyre as payment for all the cedar and cypress lumber and gold he had furnished for the construction of the buildings.
- Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, but he was not at all pleased with them.
- "What kind of towns are these, my brother?" he asked. "These towns are worthless!" So Hiram called that area Cabul--"worthless"--as it is still known today.
- Hiram had sent Solomon nine thousand pounds of gold.