“(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.”

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.