1st Kings Chapter 9 verse 12 Holy Bible
And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
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But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.
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And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him; and they did not please him.
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And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
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And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
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Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn't please him.
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And Hiram cometh out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon hath given to him, and they have not been right in his eyes,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. [Heb. were not right in his eyes. It has been conjectured that Hiram had hoped for the noble bay of Acco or Ptolemais (Milman, Rawlinson), but surely he had seaboard enough already. It was rather corn lands he would most need and desire. His disappointment is amply accounted for by the fact that the country assigned him was a hungry and mountainous, and therefore comparatively useless, tract. "The region lay on the summit of a broad mountain ridge" (Porter).]
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) The cities are said to have been in "the land of Galilee." The name Galilee, signifying properly a "circle" or "ring" of territory, is used twice in the Book of Joshua for a region round Kedesh-Naphtali (Joshua 20:7; Joshua 21:32), lying to the north-west of the Lake of Gennesareth, and extending to the Waters of Merom. (See also 2Kings 15:29.) The western portion of this territory would lie nearly on the frontiers of Tyre, and so would suit well the purpose both of Hiram and of Solomon. The discontent of Hiram probably referred to the condition of the cities (which afterwards had to be rebuilt), not to their geographical position.
