1 Kings 9:11

Contextual Overview

¹⁰At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings-the temple of the LORD and the royal palace- ¹⁰ At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings—the temple of the Lord and the royal palace— ¹⁰Now it happened that at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house ¹⁰ It came about at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house ¹⁰ And it fortuned, that at the ende of twentie yeres when Solomon had finished the buylding of the two houses, [that is to wyte,] the house of the Lorde and the kinges palace, ¹⁰ And it happened, at the end of twenty years Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the house of the king. ¹⁰ It took 20 years for King Solomon to build the Lord 's Temple and the king's palace. ¹⁰ At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house, ¹⁰ It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house ¹⁰ And it came to passe at the end of twentie yeeres, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the Kings house,

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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 some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.

Genesis 9:21
When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.

Genesis 9:21
And he drank of the wine and became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Genesis 9:21
He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Genesis 9:21
And he drynkyng of the wyne, was dronken, and vncouered within his tent.

Genesis 9:21
One day Noah made some wine. He got drunk, went into his tent, and took off all his clothes.

Genesis 9:21
and he drank of the wine, and became drunk, and lay uncovered in his tent.

Genesis 9:21
and he drank wyn, and was drunkun; and he was nakid, and lay in his tabernacle.

Genesis 9:21
And he dranke of the wine, and was drunken, and hee was vncouered within his tent.

Genesis 9:21
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

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.