It took Solomon twenty years to build the Lord’s Temple and his own royal palace. At the end of that time, he gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to King Hiram of Tyre. (Hiram had previously provided all the cedar and cypress timber and gold that Solomon had requested.) But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, he was not at all pleased with them. “What kind of towns are these, my brother?” he asked. So Hiram called that area Cabul (which means “worthless”), as it is still known today. Nevertheless, Hiram paid Solomon 9,000 pounds of gold. [1 Kings 9.10-14]
I find this passage interesting because for all the glory of the Temple, there is this 'bad business deal' attached to it.
It seems to me that no matter how glorious something is, if it has ill feelings attached to it, it is not so great. At least that is the way it is for me.
Was the Temple doomed from the start?
Father help me to comprehend what is to be learned from Hiram's dealings with Solomon...
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