2 that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
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The cities which Huram had restored to Solomon - These cities had not been mentioned previously by the writer of Chronicles, who, however, seems to assume that the fact of their having been given by Hiram to Solomon is known to his readers. See 1-Kings 9:11-13.
The cities which Huram had restored - See the note on 1-Kings 9:11.
That the cities which Huram had (b) restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
(b) That is, which Hiram gave again to Solomon because they did not please him and therefore called them Cabul, that is, dirt or filth, (1-Kings 9:13).
That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon,.... Which Solomon first gave to him, but he not liking them, returned them to him, 1-Kings 9:12,
Solomon built them; or rebuilt them, being very much out of repair, which might be one reason of Huram's not accepting them:
and caused the children of Israel to dwell there; they being inhabited by others, the remains of the Canaanitcs perhaps; see 2-Chronicles 8:7.
SOLOMON'S BUILDINGS. (2-Chronicles 8:1-6)
cities which Huram had restored . . . Solomon built them, &c.--These cities lay in the northwest of Galilee. Though included within the limits of the promised land, they had never been conquered. The right of occupying them Solomon granted to Huram, who, after consideration, refused them as unsuitable to the commercial habits of his subjects (see on 1-Kings 9:11). Solomon, having wrested them from the possession of the Canaanite inhabitants, repaired them and filled them with a colony of Hebrews.
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