The LORD Appears to Solomon - When Solomon had finished building the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to.

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king's house.

10Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace, 11King Solomon gave twenty towns ...

King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.

And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he wanted to...

Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense before the Lord along ...

The kingdom is beginning to slip because of the choices Solomon is making that are in violation of what God said to do.

This is an account of the conscript labor force King Solomon raised in order to build the house of the LORD, his own house, Millo.

Now three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he had built for the LORD, and he burned incense with them.

At that time King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had helped with the buildings.