Text: 2 Chronicles 8:1-2
OT Text Referred to: 1 Kings 9:10-14
Subject: Cities exchanged between Solomon and Hiram
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: The Chronicler states that "Huram had given cities to Solomon" and Solomon rebuilt them and settled Israelites there (2 Chr 8:1-2). This directly contradicts 1 Kings 9:10-14, which records Solomon giving twenty cities in Galilee to Hiram, who found them unsatisfactory and named them "Cabul" (ke-khavul, "like nothing"). The Chronicler's reversal protects Solomon from the charge of alienating Israelite territory to a foreign king, a theological concern rooted in the inviolability of the land inheritance. This is one of the clearest editorial adaptations in Chronicles, reflecting the Chronicler's idealized portrait of the temple-building monarch.