1 Kings 9:10-14

Solomon and Hiram Complete Their Agreement

10 It happened at the end of twenty years [in] which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the house of the king,

11 [since] Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with wood of cedar and with wood of cypresses and with the gold according to all his desire, then King Solomon gave twenty cities in the land of the Galilee to Hiram.

12 So Hiram went out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but they were not right in his eyes.

13 So he said, "What [are] these cities that you have given to me, my brother?" {So they are called the land of Cabul until this day}.

14 Then Hiram sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

1 Kings 9:10-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 9

This chapter relates a second vision Solomon had at Gibeon, in which he received an answer to his prayer in the preceding chapter, 1Ki 9:1-9 that passed between him and Hiram king of Tyre, 1Ki 9:10-14, the places that Solomon built or repaired, 1Ki 9:15-19, the Canaanitish people that became bondmen to him, and the officers he had among the children of Israel, 1Ki 9:20-23 the removal of Pharaoh's daughter to the house built for her, 1Ki 9:24. Solomon's attention to religious services, 1Ki 9:25 and the navy of ships he employed, which brought him in great riches, 1Ki 9:26-28.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "So he called them the land of Cabul up to this day"