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1 Kings 9:12

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So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

KJV

And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

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This verse in 1 Kings 9

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
They pleased him not - It is a reasonable conjecture that, when a question arose with respect to a cession of land, Hiram had cast his eyes on the bay or harbour of Acco, or Ptolemais, and was therefore the more disappointed when he received an inland tract of mountain territory.

This site's exposition

he was not pleased with them

on 1 Kings 9:12-14

Hiram goes out from Tyre to inspect the towns, and “he was not pleased with them”, a Phoenician trader’s verdict on inland Galilean hill country. He calls them “the Land of Cabul, as they are called to this day”, a name the commentators read as displeasing or as worthless clay.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

Provided Shlomo. An expression of bearing, [i.e.,] he bore his burden in this matter.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Kings 9:11:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J
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The land of Kovul. A land of chains, [i.e.,] a marshland into which the foot sinks and is entrapped.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Kings 9:13:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּצֵ֤אand he came out

    vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • חִירָם֙Hiram

    chiramH2438 →22 times

  • מִצֹּ֔רfrom Tyre

    mitzorH6865 →42 times

  • לִרְאוֹת֙to see

    lirotH7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הֶ֣עָרִ֔יםthe cities

    hearimH5892 →1090 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נָתַן־he had given

    natan-H5414 →2011 times

  • ל֖וֹto him

    lo

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֑הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • וְלֹ֥אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יָשְׁר֖וּthey were pleasing

    yasheruH3474 →

  • בְּעֵינָֽיו׃in view his

    beeinavH5869 →887 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 22:34

    “I have sinned,” Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “for I did not realize that you were standing in the road to confront me. And now, if this is displeasing in your…

    it leads to

    • Job 34:31–32

      Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.

    • 1 Samuel 15:24

      Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORD’s commandment and your instructions, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

    • 2 Samuel 12:13

      Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.

  • Through

    Judges 14:3

    But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 17:36

      Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”

    • Deuteronomy 7:2–3

      and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

    • Judges 15:18

      And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

    • 1 Samuel 17:26

      David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he…

    • 1 Samuel 31:4

      Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused…

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About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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