1 Kings 9

It is called Galilee of the Gentiles, not only because it was neighbor to Tyre and Sidon, but also in regard many nations were mingled there among the Jews; for after David gave this country to king Hiram, it could never be so quiet but the Gentiles would always occupy some part…

Lower Galilee is called Galilee of the Gentiles, not only on account of its vicinity to Tyre and Sidon, but because its inhabitants were a mixture of Jews and Gentiles, particularly after that David had granted some cities to King Hiram. This appears to refer to a gift, not of D…

When the man or the thing is not approved, then God carries himself toward him and his action as if he knew not what he had been doing, and he must have it out by confession. Thus Hiram (1 Kings 9:13) puts the question upon Solomon, What cities are these which you have given me,…

The posterity of the Gibeonites became servants before, hewers of wood, and drawers of water, for the house of God. But Solomon, David's son and successor, put all the other remains of the seven nations of Canaan to bond-service; at least made them pay a tribute of bond-service,…

If this succession be so honorable, so happy, how honorable, how happy does the succession of Religion from Father to Son, make Families to be? This succession in your noble Family, is the subject of the prayers of many precious spirits, exceedingly dear to God: And my Lord, alt…

How can you say I love you, when your heart is not with me (Judges 16:15)? Obedience must be extensive — it must reach to all God's commandments (1 Kings 9:4; Luke 1:6). But who can arrive at this?

'There is one that makes himself rich, and yet has nothing; and there is one that makes himself poor, and yet has great riches' (Proverbs 13:7). Hiram called the cities Solomon gave him 'Cabul' — dirty, for they pleased him not (1 Kings 9:13). It is but an ill requital, an ungra…