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列王纪上 9:11

因為推羅王希蘭曾照著所羅門所喜愛的,以香柏木、松木和金子幫助他,於是所羅門王把加利利地的二十座城給了希蘭。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cedar;   Contracts;   Diplomacy;   Elijah;   Galilee;   Hiram;   Solomon;   Treaty;   Tyre;   Thompson Chain Reference - Galilee;   Hiram;   Huram;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Galilee;   Gold;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Fir;   Galilee;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hiram;   Phoenicia;   Solomon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Fir;   Hiram;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Galilee;   Hiram;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cabul;   Galilee;   Ownership;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alliance;   Galilee;   Israel;   Phoenicia, PhNicians;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Galilee;   Sea of Galilee;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Galilee ;   Hiram ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Galilee;   Hiram;   Tyre;   Writing;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ca'bul;   Gal'ilee;   Tyre;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Fir Tree;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Alliance;   Furnish;   Further;   Galilee;   Hiram;   King;   Solomon;   Trade;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Galilee;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
推 罗 王 希 兰 曾 照 所 罗 门 所 要 的 , 资 助 他 香 柏 木 、 松 木 , 和 金 子 ; 所 罗 门 王 就 把 加 利 利 地 的 二 十 座 城 给 了 希 兰 。

Contextual Overview

10 By the end of twenty years, King Solomon had built two buildings—the Temple of the Lord and the royal palace. 11 At that time King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had helped with the buildings. Hiram had given Solomon all the cedar, pine, and gold he wanted. 12 So Hiram traveled from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, but when he saw them, he was not pleased. 13 He asked, "What good are these towns you have given me, my brother?" So he named them the Land of Cabul, and they are still called that today. 14 Hiram had sent Solomon about nine thousand pounds of gold.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Now Hiram: 1 Kings 5:6-10, 2 Chronicles 2:8-10, 2 Chronicles 2:16

king Solomon: 2 Chronicles 8:2

of Galilee: Joshua 20:7

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 9:1 - all Solomon's 1 Kings 9:14 - General 2 Kings 15:29 - Galilee Amos 1:9 - brotherly covenant Matthew 4:15 - Galilee

Cross-References

Genesis 9:21
When he drank wine made from his grapes, he became drunk and lay naked in his tent.
Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, looked at his naked father and told his brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23
Then Shem and Japheth got a coat and, carrying it on both their shoulders, they walked backwards into the tent and covered their father. They turned their faces away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.
Isaiah 54:9
The Lord says, "This day is like the time of Noah to me. I promised then that I would never flood the world again. In the same way, I promise I will not be angry with you or punish you again.
2 Peter 3:7
And that same word of God is keeping heaven and earth that we now have in order to be destroyed by fire. They are being kept for the Judgment Day and the destruction of all who are against God.
2 Peter 3:11
In that way everything will be destroyed. So what kind of people should you be? You should live holy lives and serve God,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees,.... For the building of both his houses; see 1 Kings 5:8,

and with gold, according to all his desire): which is not before mentioned, and accounts for it from whence Solomon had his gold; if he made no use, as some think he did not, of what his father left him; see 1 Kings 7:51 with which he covered several parts of the temple, and made several vessels in it. Hiram traded to Ophir, and had it from thence; and he could supply Solomon with it, and did, before he sent a navy thither:

that then Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee; that is, by or near it, for they were not in the land of Canaan; for then Solomon could not have disposed of them, being allotted and belonging to one of the tribes of Israel, and part of the Lord's inheritance; but they were upon the borders, particularly on the borders of Asher, if Cabul in Joshua 19:27, can be thought to be the same with these; though some think that Solomon did not give Hiram the possession of these cities, but the royalties and revenues of them, their produce until the debt was paid: but they rather seem to be a gratuity, and a full grant of them, and might be cities which David had conquered, and taken out of the hands of the ancient inhabitants of them; and so Solomon had a right to dispose of them, being left him by his father; for it is plain as yet they were not inhabited by Israelites; see 2 Chronicles 8:2. They are by a Jewish writer f said to be twenty two, very wrongly.

f Gloss. in T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 54. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By the spirit, if not by the letter, of the Law, Solomon had no right to give away these cities, or any part of the inheritance of Israel Leviticus 25:13-34. But the exigences of a worldly policy caused the requirements of the Law to be set aside.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 9:11. Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities — It is very likely that Solomon did not give those cities to Hiram so that they should be annexed to his Tyrian dominions, but rather gave him the produce of them till the money was paid which he had advanced to Solomon for his buildings. It appears however that either Hiram did not accept them, or that having received the produce till he was paid, he then restored them to Solomon; for in the parallel place, 2 Chronicles 8:2, it is said, The cities which Hiram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. Some think that they were heathen cities which Solomon had conquered, and therefore had a right to give them if he pleased, as they were not any part of the land given by promise to the Israelites.


 
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