10.所羅門建造耶和華殿和王宮,這兩所二十年才完畢了。
At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings—the temple of the LORD and the royal palace—
11.推羅王希蘭曾照所羅門所要的,資助他香柏木、松木,和金子;所羅門王就把加利利地的二十座城給了希蘭。
King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.
12.希蘭從推羅出來,察看所羅門給他的城邑,就不喜悅,
But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.
13.說:「我兄啊,你給我的是甚麼城邑呢?」他就給這城邑之地起名叫迦步勒,直到今日。
「What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?」 he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul,[d] a name they have to this day.
Footnotes:
d. 1 Kings 9:13 Kabul sounds like the Hebrew for good-for-nothing.
14.希蘭給所羅門一百二十他連得金子。
Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents[e] of gold.
Footnotes:
e. 1 Kings 9:14 That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons