1 Kings 9:8-10

Modern English Version

⁸ And everyone who passes by this high house will be astonished and will hiss, and they shall say, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land, and to this house?’ ⁹ And they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods and have worshipped and served them. That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster upon them.’ ”

Solomon’s Other Activities^(A)

¹⁰ When twenty years had passed since Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house