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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - 2 Chronicles 8:11-18

Solomon's Worship and Navigation v. 11. And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the City of David unto the house that he had built for her, a special building of his palace for his chief wife; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David, king of Israel, because the places are holy whereunto the ark of the Lord hath come. She had lived in some part of the lower city since her marriage to Solomon, because the king deemed it improper for a former heathen,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - 2 Chronicles 8:1-18

c. The External Glory of Solomon’s Kingdom, and his End.—Ch. 8, 9α. Solomon’s Building, serfs, Divine Worship, and Navigation: 2 Chronicles 8:02 Chronicles 8:1 And after the course of twenty years, in which Solomon built the house 2of the Lord, and his own house. The cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built, and caused the sons of Israel to dwell in them.3And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and subdued it. 4And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the cities of stores which he... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - 2 Chronicles 8:12-13

2 Chronicles THE DUTY OF EVERY DAY 2Ch_8:12 - 2Ch_8:13 . This is a description of the elaborate provision, in accordance with the commandment of Moses, which Solomon made for the worship in his new Temple. The writer is enlarging on the precise accordance of the ritual with the regulations laid down in the law. He expresses, by the phrase which we have taken as our text, not only the accordance of the worship with the commandment, but its unbroken continuity, and also the variety in it,... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 8:1-18

Here are recorded some of the doings of the king. He consolidated the internal strength of the nation by building cities. He organized the labor of the conquered peoples in his dominions. He set the Temple worship in order. He enlarged his commercial activities. It was during this period that he took Pharaoh's daughter to the house he had built for her and gave his reason for doing so. "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David, king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 8:1-18

2 Chronicles 8:1-Job : . Solomon’ s Various Religious and Secular Undertakings (see notes on 1 Kings 9:10-Hosea :).— A striking difference occurs between 2 and 1 Kings 9:11; here Hiram gives Solomon an unspecified number of cities, whereas in the historical account Solomon gives Hiram twenty cities. The discrepancy is not difficult to account for; in the Chronicler’ s days when, with the lapse of time, the popular conception had greatly increased the wealth and power of Solomon, it was not... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Chronicles 8:1-18

CRITICAL NOTES.] Solomon’s buildings (2 Chronicles 8:1-6); the tributaries (2 Chronicles 8:7-11); the festival worship (2 Chronicles 8:12-16); and the fleet of Solomon (2 Chronicles 8:17-18) (1 Kings 9:10-28).Solomon’s buildings.—2 Chronicles 8:1-6. Twenty years (cf. 1 Kings 6:38; 1 Kings 7:1; 1 Kings 9:10). Cities north-west of Galilee, the occupation of which was granted to Huram, who seems, after consideration, to have refused them as unsuitable to the commercial habits of his people and... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 8:1-18

Chapter 8Now it came to pass at the end of twenty years, that Solomon had built both the house of the LORD, and his own palace ( 2 Chronicles 8:1 ),He spent seven years building the house of the Lord and thirteen years building his own palace.That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, he then built them up, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there ( 2 Chronicles 8:2 ).And it gives you the names of some of the cities where he had his storehouses and he had built fortresses and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 8:1-18

2 Chronicles 8:4 . Tadmor, Palmyra. 1 Kings 9:18. This city rose to be capital of a province, which sent eighty thousand men to join the Assyrian army. Its ruins exhibit a wall eleven miles in circumference. 2 Chronicles 8:11 . My wife shall not dwell in the house of David because the places are holy. The Targum calls this princess Bithiah, daughter of Pharaoh. She was a heathen, and appears to have retained her superstitions. She wanted the heart of Ruth, to say, “Thy people shall be... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Chronicles 8:12

2 Chronicles 8:12; 2 Chronicles 8:18Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the Lord. Solomon’s burnt offeringsSolomon was great in burnt offerings. Do not men sometimes make up in burnt offerings what they lack in moral consistency? Is not an ostentatious religion sometimes the best proof of internal decay? It ought not to be so. The outward and inward should correspond. The action should be the incarnation of the thought. It is beautiful to look upon the Church engaged in much... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 8:12

2Ch 8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch, Ver. 12. Then Solomon offered. ] These sacrifices were their sacraments, visible words directing them to Christ. read more