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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 5:16

Beside [without counting] the chief of Solomon's officers [Heb. the princes of the overseers, i.e; the princes who acted as overseers, principes qui praefecti erant (Vatabl.)] which were over the work three thousand and three hundred [This large number proves that the "chiefs of the overseers" cannot be meant. Were all the 3,300 superior officers, there must have been quite an army of subalterns. But we read of none. In 1 Kings 9:23 , an additional number of 550 "princes of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 5:17

And the king commanded and they brought [or cut out, quarried (Gesen.), as in Ecclesiastes 10:9 ; see also Ecclesiastes 6:7 (Heb.) ] great stones, costly [precious, not heavy, as Thenius. Cf. Psalms 36:8 ; Psalms 45:9 ; Esther 1:4 in the Heb.], stones and [omit and. The hewed stones were the great and costly stones] hewed stones [or squared ( Isaiah 9:10 ; cf. 1 Kings 6:36 ; 1 Kings 7:9 ; 1 Kings 11:12 ). We learn from 1 Kings 7:10 that the stones of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 5:17

Sure Foundations. No city in the world has experienced so many vicissitudes as "the city of the Great King." The place of the "vision of peace" (or , "foundation of peace") has known no peace. It has been sixteen times taken by siege since our blessed Lord's day, and conqueror after conqueror has cried, "Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof" ( Psalms 137:7 ). It has been the carcase round which the Roman "eagles" have repeatedly gathered; it has been the battlefield of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 5:18

And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stone squarers: [the marg. Giblites, i.e; people of Gebal, is to be preferred. For Gebal (= mountain) see Joshua 13:5 ("the land of the Giblites and Lebanon"); Psalms 83:7 ("Gebal and they of Tyro"); and Ezekiel 27:9 , where the LXX . translate the word Biblus, which was the Greek name of the city and district north of the famous river Adonis, on the extreme border of Phoenicia. It is now known as Jebeil. It... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 5:15

That bare burdens ... - Compare the marginal references. These laborers, whose services were continuous, consisted of “strangers” - “the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites” - whom Solomon, following the example of his father 1 Chronicles 22:2, condemned to slavery, and employed in this way. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 5:16

Comparing this verse and 1 Kings 9:23 with 2 Chronicles 2:18; 2 Chronicles 8:10, the entire number of the overseers will be seen to be stated by both writers at 3,850; but in the one case nationality, in the other degree of authority, is made the principle of the division. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 5:17

Some of these “great, hewed (no and) stones,” are probably still to be seen in the place where they were set by Solomon’s builders, at the southwestern angle of the wall of the Haram area in the modern Jerusalem. The largest found so far is 38 ft. 9 in. long, and weighs about 100 tons. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 5:18

The stone-squarers - The Gebalites (see the margin), the inhabitants of Gebal, a Phoenician city between Beyrout and Tripolis, which the Greeks called Byblus, and which is now known as Jebeil. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 5:15-16

1 Kings 5:15-16. That bare burdens Namely, porters, carters, seamen, and such like. Fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains That is, hewers of stone, for timber was hewed by Hiram’s servants in Lebanon. Officers over the work three thousand three hundred Whereof three thousand were set over the one hundred and fifty thousand mentioned 1 Kings 5:15, each of these over fifty of them, and the odd three hundred were set over these three thousand; each of them to have the oversight of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 5:17

1 Kings 5:17. Costly stones Marble and porphyry, or other stones of great size and value. To lay the foundation of the house Where they could not afterward be seen; and therefore that this was done, is mentioned only as a point of magnificence, except it was intended for a type or mystical signification of the preciousness of Christ, who is the foundation of the true temple, and the church of God. “It should seem,” says Henry, “that Solomon was himself present at the founding of the... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 5:16

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 5:17

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 5:17

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 5:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 5:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 5:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 5:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 5:18

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 5:15-16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 5:17

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