1Ki 4:11 Ben-Abinadab had the whole of the high range of Dor (דּאר נפת, Jos 12:23), i.e., the strip of coast on the Mediterranean Sea below the promontory of Carmel, where the city of Dor, which has been preserved in the village of Tantura or Tortura, nine miles to the north of Caesarea, was situated (see at Jos 11:2). Whether this district embraced the fruitful plain of Sharon is not so clearly made out as Thenius supposes. בּן־אבינדב stands at the head absolutely, without any grammatical connection with כּל־נפת: “Abinadab: the whole of the high range of Dor,” etc. The person named was probably a son of David’s eldest brother but one (1Sa 16:8; 1Sa 17:13), and therefore Solomon’s cousin; and he had married Solomon’s daughter.