열왕기상 5:14-18 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 5:14

And he sent them to Lebanon ten thousand a month, by courses [Heb. changes ]: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home [they had to serve, that is to say, four months out of the twelve—no very great hardship], and Adoniram [see on 1 Kings 4:6 ; 1 Kings 12:18 ] was over the levy. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 5:15

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains. [These 150,000, destined for the more laborious and menial works, were not Israelites, but Canaanites. We learn from 2 Chronicles 2:17 , 2 Chronicles 2:18 that "all the strangers that were in the land of Israel" were subjected to forced labour by Solomon—there were, that is to say, but 150,000 of them remaining. They occupied a very different position from that of the 30,000... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 5:14

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 5:15

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

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