Three approaches to giving the cities of Galil to Hiram:
1. Exchange of territories. 2. The land was given only on lease, for produce.
3. Critical approach: Solomon in his later years had a crave for gold, and could no longer send Hiram only grain and oil, but had to give him cities in Galilee, for the gold.
And finally, we will connect with an idea we have already seen – that during Solomon’s time, the Mediterranean Sea began to recede, and thus muddy soil was created in the Galilee region, which Solomon gave to Hiram, who called it: “Kabul land”.
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