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BrLXXκαὶ τὰς πόλεις ἃς ἔδωκε Χιρὰμ τῷ Σαλωμὼν, ᾠκοδόμησεν αὐτὰς Σαλωμὼν, καὶ κατῴκισεν ἐκεῖ τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραήλ. (kai tas poleis has edōke Ⱪiram tōi Salōmōn, ōkodomaʸsen autas Salōmōn, kai katōkisen ekei tous huious Israaʸl. )
BrTrthat Solomon rebuilt the cities which Chiram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell in them.
ULTand the cities which Huram gave to Solomon, Solomon built them. And he caused to dwell there the sons of Israel.
USTThen his workers rebuilt the cities that King Hiram had given back to him, and Solomon sent Israelites to live in those cities.
BSBSolomon rebuilt the cities Hiram[fn] had given him and settled Israelites there
8:2Hebrew Huram, a variant of Hiram; also in verse 18
GnvaThen Salomon built the cities that Huram gaue to Salomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. (Then Salomon built the cities that Huram gave to Salomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. )
ClVgcivitates quas dederat Hiram Salomoni, ædificavit, et habitare ibi fecit filios Israël. (cities which dederat Hiram Salomoni, he_built, and to_live there he_did children Israel. )
8:2 The twenty towns that Solomon had given Hiram in exchange for gold were unsatisfactory to Hiram (1 Kgs 9:11-14); this implies that Hiram gave them back to Solomon, who apparently provided other compensation.
(Some words not found in UHB: and,the,cities which/who he/it_gave Ḩūrām to,Solomon rebuilt Shəlomoh/(Solomon) DOM=them and,settled there DOM sons_of Yisrael )
Hiram was the king of Tyre. See how you translated his name in [2 Chronicles 2:11](../02/11.md). Alternate translation: “Hiram, the king of Tyre” or “King Hiram”
(Occurrence 0) Solomon rebuilt the towns that Hiram had given to him
(Some words not found in UHB: and,the,cities which/who he/it_gave Ḩūrām to,Solomon rebuilt Shəlomoh/(Solomon) DOM=them and,settled there DOM sons_of Yisrael )
The author speaks of Solomon commanding the people to rebuild the towns as if he himself had rebuilt them. Alternate translation: “Solomon caused the towns that Hiram had given to him to be rebuilt” or “Solomon commanded and the people rebuilt the towns that Hiram had given to him”
Near the beginning of Solomon’s reign, the Lord promised to bless him with great wisdom, riches, and honor (1 Kings 3:2-15), and the fulfillment of this promise led to great fame for Solomon throughout the Near East. Humanly speaking, Solomon had been set up for immense success by his father David, who passed on to him a powerful kingdom that stretched from the tip of the Red Sea to the Euphrates River (2 Samuel 8-10; 1 Chronicles 18-19; 2 Chronicles 8). During Solomon’s reign Israel controlled all land routes leading from Egypt and the Red Sea to the Aramean and Hittite nations to the north, and they also controlled the northern terminus of the great Incense Route leading from the peoples of southwest Arabia to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea at Gaza. Solomon appears to have capitalized on his strategic control over travel and shipping throughout the region by setting up a very lucrative international arms dealership, through which he paired chariots bought from Egypt with horses bought from Kue (the term sometimes translated as “Egypt” should probably be translated “Muzur,” a district near Kue) and sold them to the kings of the Hittites and Arameans. Solomon also likely gained immense wealth from very productive copper mines at Punon, Timna, and elsewhere (see “Southern Arabah Valley” map). All this won him great renown among all the rulers of the Near East, including the queen of Sheba, who traveled over a thousand miles to see for herself Solomon’s great wisdom and splendor. She brought with her luxurious gifts from her land, including spices, precious stones, and gold, which she may have obtained from nearby Ophir. Solomon also arranged for King Hiram of Tyre to provide him with cedar timbers from Lebanon to build the Temple of the Lord and his royal palace (2 Chronicles 2). The logs were bound into rafts, floated down to Joppa, and then disassembled and hauled up to Jerusalem. Solomon also launched ships to sail to faraway lands during his reign and bring back riches and exotic goods. Scholars have proposed various locations for the exact destination of the ships, and some have struggled to reconcile what can seem like confusion on the part of the biblical writers over the term Tarshish. But a careful reading of the biblical accounts indicates that there were probably two separate fleets of ships: the fleet of Hiram and Solomon’s fleet of ships of Tarshish. Both fleets are separately mentioned in 1 Kings 10:22, and the phrase “at sea with” may simply indicate that they were sailing at the same time but not necessarily together. Also, the list of goods brought back by Hiram’s fleet is somewhat different than the list of goods brought back by Solomon’s fleet (compare 1 Kings 10:11, 22; 2 Chronicles 8:17-18; 9:10, 21). Likewise, the wording of 2 Chronicles 8:17-18 is that Hiram “sent to [Solomon] by the hand of his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea,” but the implication seems to be that the ships remained Hiram’s, not Solomon’s, whereas the other fleet of ships of Tarshish appears to have belonged to Solomon, though the ships were manned by Hiram’s men as well (2 Chronicles 9:21). Thus, Hiram’s fleet set sail from Ezion-geber, traveled the length of the Red Sea, and acquired gold from Ophir. Solomon’s fleet, on the other hand, could have sailed either the Red Sea or the Mediterranean Sea, since the term ships of Tarshish seems to have been used at times to indicate a class of trading or refinery ships rather than a specific destination (see article for “Tarshish” map). It is also possible, however, that the term Tarshish referred to the ships’ actual destination, which during Solomon’s reign appears to have been located in the far western Mediterranean Sea. This is supported by isotopic studies of silver found in Israel during Solomon’s time, which have traced the source to Tharros on the island of Sardinia. This also fits well with the length of time given for the voyage of Solomon’s fleet, which returned every three years with their exotic goods.
