Wheat. Hebrew adds, "beaten." --- Barley and wine are not specified [in] 3 Kings v. 11. (Calmet) --- Measures, like the Roman amphora, contained 960 ozs. (Cornelius a Lapide) --- Hebrew has, "batim," in both places; but [in] 3 Kings we find, "twenty cores of oil." The satum, "measure," was only one-third of the bath or epha. (Calmet) read more
Solomon's Message to Huram v. 1. And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord, he made arrangements to carry out the last wishes of his father, and an house for his kingdom, a royal palace to display all his wealth and power. v. 2. Arid Solomon told out, raised by conscription, threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, in the actual erection of the Temple, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, in preparing the stones and the lumber, and three thousand... read more
2 Chronicles 2:1.And Solomon told out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.2And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst with David my father, and sentest him cedars to build him a house to dwell 3in, so do also with me. Behold, I build a house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to Him, to offer sweet incense before Him, and the shewbread continually, and the... read more
The king's devotion to the highest work of his life was, however, unhindered, and the second chapter gives us the story of how he commenced his preparations for doing that work by new commercial treaties with his father's old friend Huram. This was an alliance of a totally different nature. Huram recognized the truth about Israel, that it was a God-governed people, and in responding to Solomon's message plainly declared this to be the case. In Solomon's friendship for his father's friend there... read more
2 Chronicles 2:1-Job : . Preparations for the Building of the Temple (see notes on 1 Kings 5:5-Job :).— Though the general narrative in the parallel passages is the same, the Chronicler’ s account varies in detail sufficiently from that in 1 K. to suggest the probability that the Chronicler used a different source. 2 Chronicles 2:14 . of the daughters of Dan: in 1 Kings 7:14 “ of the tribe of Naphthali” ; a number of other variations of this kind bears out what has just been said as to the... read more
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter corresponds with 1 Kings 5:0. It comprises preparations for building the temple (2 Chronicles 2:1-2); Solomon’s message to Huram (2 Chronicles 2:3-10); Huram’s reply (2 Chronicles 2:11-16); and the census of the strangers (2 Chronicles 2:17-18).2 Chronicles 2:1-2.—Preparations for building. Determined, i.e., commanded, gave orders to build. Name (1 Chronicles 22:10; cf. 1 Kings 5:5). Kingdom, royal palace. 2 Chronicles 2:2. The substance of this verse given in 2... read more
Chapter 2Now Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a house for his kingdom. And Solomon told out [or counted out] seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men to cut trees out of the forest, and three thousand six hundred men to oversee them ( 2 Chronicles 2:1-2 ).And so the tremendous number of people that were just involved in the labor to the gathering of the materials for his own palace and for the temple that they were to build.Solomon sent to... read more
2 Chronicles 2:1 . A house. The word temple among the Jews, gradually obtained from the Gentiles. The Egyptians were the first that built temples; the Greeks and the Tyrians followed, as they rose to wealth and science. It was therefore wise in Solomon to employ the Tyrian artificers which now excelled the Egyptians. The hundred and fifty three thousand six hundred workmen engaged in this national enterprise did each a little, and did it well. 2 Chronicles 2:8 . Algum-trees. Hebrew, ... read more
2 Chronicles 2:1-16And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord. Solomon’s predestined workSolomon was born to do this work. There is no need for the rose to say, “Now I am going to be beautiful and fragrant.” There is no need for the nightingale to say, “Now I have fully made up my mind to be musical and tuneful, and to fill the air with richest expressions and melody.” The flower was born to bloom, and to throw all its fragrance away in generous donation; the nightingale... read more
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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:3-10
The message here recorded, which Solomon sent to Hiram, is much more particularly related than the parallel one in the book of the Kings. I beg the Reader to mark this. There is very great beauty, as well as piety, in that part of his address, in which he endeavors to impress upon the mind of Hiram suitable ideas of the greatness of the Lord God of Israel. He was asking favors of the king of Tyre; and the king of Tyre, for ought we know to the contrary, had but slender knowledge, if any,... read more