1 Kings 9:13
“What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram, and he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.
Note Cabul sounds like the Hebrew for good-for-nothing.
And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
Note Cabul: that is, displeasing, or, dirty
He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.
Note “Cabul” sounds like Hebrew for “good-for-nothing”.
And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- my brother
- 1 Kings 5:1, 2; Amos 1:9
- Cabul
- that is, Displeasing, or dirty. Josephus says that {Cabul,} in the Phoenician language, signifies [ouk areskon,] displeasing; and that these cities were situated in the neighbourhood of Tyre. Most commentators are persuaded that the city Cabul in the tribe of Asher was one; and probably from this Hiram took occasion to give this name to all the other cities which Solomon had ceded to him.
- Joshua 19:27