1 Reyes 9:13

13 «¿Qué clase de ciudades son estas, hermano?», le preguntó. Por eso Hiram llamó a esa región Cabul (que significa «sin ningún valor»), y así se conoce hasta el día de hoy.

1 Reyes 9:13 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 9:13

And he said
By letter to him:

what cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother?
so he called him, being not only his neighbour, but his ally, in friendship and covenant with him; and this he said of them not by way of complaint, or contempt, as unworthy of his acceptance; for so munificent a prince as Solomon would never offer to a king to whom he was so much obliged anything mean and contemptible; but as being unsuitable to him, however valuable they might be in themselves, or of advantage to others:

and he called them the land of Cabul unto this day;
or rather the words should be rendered impersonally, "they were called so"; for Hiram could not call them by this name to the times of the writer of this book; nor is there any reason to think he would give them any name at all, and much less a contemptible one, as this is thought to be, when he did not choose to accept of them. Some interpret F7 the word shut up, or unfruitful, sandy, dirty, clayey; so in the Talmud F8 it is said to be a sandy land, and called Cabul, because a man's foot was plunged in it up to his ankles, and is represented as unfruitful. Josephus F9 says, in the Phoenician tongue it signifies "not pleasing", which agrees with what Hiram says, ( 1 Kings 9:12 ) . Hillerus F11 interprets it "as nothing", they being as nothing to Hiram, of no use to him, whatever they might be to others; and therefore he restored them to Solomon, ( 2 Chronicles 8:2 ) , which seems to be the best sense of the word. They are the same with Decapolis, ( Matthew 4:25 ) so called from ten cities therein F12.


FOOTNOTES:

F7 David de Pomis, Lexic fol. 58. 2.
F8 T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 54. 1.
F9 Antiqu. l. 8. c. 5. sect. 3.
F11 Onomastic. Sacr. p. 435.
F12 Vid. Castel Lex Heptaglot. col. 1669. & Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 18.

1 Reyes 9:13 In-Context

11 Salomón le dio a Hiram, rey de Tiro, veinte ciudades en la tierra de Galilea. (Hiram había provisto toda la madera de cedro y de ciprés y todo el oro que Salomón había pedido).
12 Sin embargo, cuando Hiram llegó desde Tiro para ver las ciudades que Salomón le había dado, no le gustaron nada.
13 «¿Qué clase de ciudades son estas, hermano?», le preguntó. Por eso Hiram llamó a esa región Cabul (que significa «sin ningún valor»), y así se conoce hasta el día de hoy.
14 Sin embargo, Hiram le pagó
a Salomón cuatro mil kilos
de oro.
15 Numerosos logros de Salomón
Este es el relato del trabajo forzado que el rey Salomón impuso para la construcción del templo del Señor
, el palacio real, los terraplenes,
la muralla de Jerusalén y las ciudades de Hazor, Meguido y Gezer.
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