He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul† to this day.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 9:13 in context
1 Kings 9:10–16
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At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the LORD’s house and the king’s house
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(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12
Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.
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He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul† to this day.
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This is the reason of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted: to build the LORD’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
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Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
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- “Cabul” sounds like Hebrew for “good-for-nothing”.
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