2Chr 8:2 Cross References
2 Chronicles 8:2
2: Solomon now turned his attention to rebuilding the towns that King Hiram had given him, and he settled Israelites in them.
1 Kings 9:11
- Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to King Hiram of Tyre as payment for all the cedar and cypress lumber and gold he had furnished for the construction of the buildings.
- Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, but he was not at all pleased with them.
- "What kind of towns are these, my brother?" he asked. "These towns are worthless!" So Hiram called that area Cabul--"worthless"--as it is still known today.
- Hiram had sent Solomon nine thousand pounds of gold.
- This is the account of the forced labor that Solomon conscripted to build the LORD's Temple, the royal palace, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.