They pleased him not - It is a reasonable conjecture that, when a question arose with respect to a cession of land, Hiram had cast his eyes on the bay or harbour of Acco, or Ptolemais, and was therefore the more disappointed when he received an inland tract of mountain territory.
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1 Kings 9:12
12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleaseda him not.