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Incredibly, King Solomon, who ruled approximately 3,000 years ago, got himself involved in a highly contested contemporary issue: whether land that is under Jewish sovereignty can be ceded to another jurisdiction. Just as incredible is that several of our traditional exegetes were exercised over it.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of twenty years during which Solomon constructed the two buildings, the LORD\u2019s house and the royal palace\u2014Since King Hiram of Tyre had supplied Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber and gold that he required\u2014King Solomon in turn gave Hiram twenty towns in the region of Galilee (10-11).<\/span><\/p>\n

On the surface, this appears to be a benign transaction. Hiram was very helpful in securing material and specialized labor for the Temple and for the palace, and Solomon gave him the towns as a token of his gratitude. However, the question, as formulated by Malbim (19<\/span>th<\/span> century) is: \u201cIs it conceivable that Solomon would give Hiram Israelite towns, thereby nullifying their sanctity, which is against Torah law?\u201d This question was anticipated long before Malbim; indeed, Radak, Ralbag (Gersonides), and Abrabanel also dealt with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

All three treatments of this question revolved around the observation that in 2 Chronicles 8:1-2 the roles are reversed:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of twenty years during which Solomon constructed the house of the LORD and his palace\u2014Solomon also rebuilt the cities that Huram [Hiram] had given to him, and settled Israelites in them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The medievals\u2019 resolution of the dilemma was captured succinctly by Ralbag: \u201cIt is already recorded in the Book of Chronicles that Hiram, too, gave towns to Solomon in which [Solomon] settled Israelites. That was entirely proper, because it is inconceivable that a king should diminish the Land of Israel.\u201d In contemporary terms, it was a land swap. Malbim seems to suggest that the actual sequence places Kings before Chronicles and that Hiram rejected the gift and returned to Solomon the same twenty towns he had received from him so\u2014ultimately\u2014no harm , no foul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":62069,"id":62069,"title":"1kings9-landswap","filename":"1kings9-landswap.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1kings9-landswap.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/solomon-and-the-land-for-peace-option\/1kings9-landswap\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"1kings9-landswap","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":62068,"date":"2019-09-01 03:49:06","modified":"2019-09-01 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