1 Kings 9:10-14

Solomon’s Additional Achievements

10 Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace, ¹

11 King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress ^[a] logs and gold for his every desire.

12 So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.

13 “What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram, and he called them the Land of Cabul, ^[b] as they are called to this day.

14 And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold. ^[c]

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.

Cross References

• 1. (2 Chronicles 8:1–18)

Footnotes

• [a] Or pine or juniper or fir
• [b] Cabul sounds like the Hebrew for good-for-nothing.
• [c] 120 talents is approximately 4.52 tons or 4.1 metric tons of gold.