Kings I 7:13

13 So the Lord humbled the Philistines, and they did not anymore come into the border of Israel; and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

Kings I 7:13 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 7:13

And King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
] Not the king of Tyre, but an artificer in it, after described, whom Solomon had heard and upon his request Huram sent him to him, ( 2 Chronicles 2:13 ) his name is called Hyperon by Clemens of Alexandria ^F12.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Stromat. l. 1. p. 332.

Kings I 7:13 In-Context

11 And the men of Israel went forth out of Massephath, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them to the parts under Baethchor.

12 And Samuel took a stone, and set it up between Massephath and the old ; and he called the name of it Abenezer, stone of the helper; and he said, Hitherto has the Lord helped us.

13 So the Lord humbled the Philistines, and they did not anymore come into the border of Israel; and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

14 And the cities which the Philistines took from the children of Israel were restored; and they restored them to Israel from Ascalon to Azob: and they took the coast of Israel out of the hand of the Philistines; and there was peace between Israel and the Amorite.

15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.