1 Kings 9:11

Twenty cities] As the payment for the supply of timber consisted of wheat and oil (1 Kings 5:9), the cities must have been in return for the supply of gold: see on 2 Chronicles 8:22 Chronicles 8:2. Galilee] The region thus designated is not defined in the OT., but the name seems to have been applied to a part of Zebulun and Naphtali, where the non-Israelite population was numerous enough to lead to its being called 'the Galilee (or Circuit) of the Gentiles' (Isaiah 9:1). In NT. times it extended from the Leontes in the N. to the ridge of Carmel in the S.