列王纪上 9:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他說：“我的兄弟啊，這些就是你送給我的城嗎？”於是他給這些城起名叫迦步勒，直到今日。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
说 ： 我 兄 啊 ， 你 给 我 的 是 甚 麽 城 邑 呢 ？ 他 就 给 这 城 邑 之 地 起 名 叫 迦 步 勒 ， 直 到 今 日 。

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

my brother: 1 Kings 5:1, 1 Kings 5:2, Amos 1:9

Cabul: that is, Displeasing, or dirty. Josephus says that Cabul, in the Phoenician language, signifies ןץך בסוףךןם, displeasing; and that these cities were situated in the neighbourhood of Tyre. Most commentators are persuaded that the city Cabul in the tribe of Asher was one; and probably from this Hiram took occasion to give this name to all the other cities which Solomon had ceded to him. Joshua 19:27

Cross-References

Ezekiel 1:28
The surrounding glow looked like the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day. It seemed to look like the glory of the Lord . So when I saw it, I bowed facedown on the ground and heard a voice speaking.

Revelation 4:3
The One who sat on the throne looked like precious stones, like jasper and carnelian. All around the throne was a rainbow the color of an emerald.

Revelation 10:1
Then I saw another powerful angel coming down from heaven dressed in a cloud with a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said,.... By letter to him:

what cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? so he called him, being not only his neighbour, but his ally, in friendship and covenant with him; and this he said of them not by way of complaint, or contempt, as unworthy of his acceptance; for so munificent a prince as Solomon would never offer to a king to whom he was so much obliged anything mean and contemptible; but as being unsuitable to him, however valuable they might be in themselves, or of advantage to others:

and he called them the land of Cabul unto this day; or rather the words should be rendered impersonally, "they were called so"; for Hiram could not call them by this name to the times of the writer of this book; nor is there any reason to think he would give them any name at all, and much less a contemptible one, as this is thought to be, when he did not choose to accept of them. Some interpret g the word shut up, or unfruitful, sandy, dirty, clayey; so in the Talmud h it is said to be a sandy land, and called Cabul, because a man's foot was plunged in it up to his ankles, and is represented as unfruitful. Josephus i says, in the Phoenician tongue it signifies "not pleasing", which agrees with what Hiram says, 1 Kings 9:12. Hillerus k interprets it "as nothing", they being as nothing to Hiram, of no use to him, whatever they might be to others; and therefore he restored them to Solomon, 2 Chronicles 8:2, which seems to be the best sense of the word. They are the same with Decapolis, Matthew 4:25 so called from ten cities therein l.

g David de Pomis, Lexic fol. 58. 2. h T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 54. 1. i Antiqu. l. 8. c. 5. sect. 3. k Onomastic. Sacr. p. 435. l Vid. Castel Lex Heptaglot. col. 1669. & Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Cabul is said to be a Phoenician word, and signified “displeasing” (see margin). There is some reason to believe that the cities thus despised by Hiram were restored to Solomon 2 Chronicles 8:2, and that Solomon rebuilt them and colonized them with Israelites.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 9:13. Called them the land of Cabul — Whether this epithet was given to this land by Hiram as a mark of disapprobation, or what is its proper meaning, the learned are not agreed. That there was a country of this name in the promised land in the time of Joshua, is evident enough from Joshua 19:27, as it was one part of the boundary of the tribe of Asher; hence some interpret the word border or boundary, and so, the Septuagint understood it, for they have translated the Hebrew word οριον, which signifies the same. The margin gives another meaning.