Cabul

Cabul was named in two distinct contexts in Scripture. As an Asher boundary town it appears in Joshua 19:27 along with Beth-emek and Neiel. More memorably, the city gave its name to the entire district King Solomon gave to Hiram king of Tyre in payment for the cedars and gold of the temple: "Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul" (1 Kings 9:11-13). The name was apparently a pun in Phoenician meaning "good for nothing." The site is identified with modern Kabul in lower Galilee.