Solomons Gift of Twenty Galilean Cities to Hiram of Tyre

1 Kings 9:10-13 records a striking moment of post-temple-construction diplomacy: "Then it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king's house, (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul." The name was apparently a Phoenician pun meaning "good for nothing."

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