2 Chronicles 2:10

_AND, BEHOLD, I WILL GIVE TO THY SERVANTS, THE HEWERS THAT CUT TIMBER, TWENTY THOUSAND MEASURES OF BEATEN WHEAT, AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEASURES OF BARLEY, AND TWENTY THOUSAND BATHS OF WINE, AND TWENTY THOUSAND BATHS OF OIL._ Behold, I will give ... beaten wheat, х_ CHITIYM_ (H2406) _ MAKOWT_ (H4347)] - i:e., wheat, the beatings out; wheat stripped of the husk, boiled, and saturated with butter, forms a frequent meal with the labouring people in the East (cf. 1 Kings 5:11). [But Gesenius suggests the text should probably read, chiTiym makolet la`baadekaa, wheat as food for thy servants.] There is no discrepancy between that passage and this. The yearly supplies of wine and oil mentioned in the former were intended for Huram's court, in return for the cedars sent him; while the art

BEATEN WHEAT - The Hebrew text is probably corrupt here. The true original may be restored from marginal reference, where the wheat is said to have been given “for food.” The barley and the wine are omitted in Kings. The author of Chronicles probably filled out the statement which the writer of Kings has given in brief; the barley, wine, and ordinary oil, would be applied to the sustenance of the foreign laborers....

EXPOSITION 2 CHRONICLES 2:1 In the Hebrew text this verse stands as the last of 2 Chronicles 1:1. DETERMINED. The Hebrew word is the ordinary word for "said;" as, _e.g; _in the expression of such frequent occurrence, "The Lord said." Its natural equivalent here might be, he _gave the word, _or _issued the command, _for the building of a house. FOR THE NAME OF THE LORD; better, to _the Name of the Lord _(1 Kings 5:3; or in Hebrew text, 1 Kings 5:18;...

BEHOLD, I WILL GIVE TO THY SERVANTS, THE HEWERS THAT CUT TIMBER, TWENTY THOUSAND MEASURES OF BEATEN WHEAT,.... Meaning, not what was beaten out of the husk with the flail, as some; nor bruised or half broke for pottage, as others; but ground into flour, as R. Jonah d interprets it; or rather, perhaps, it should be rendered "food" e that is, for his household, as in 1 Kings 5:11, and the hire of these servants is proposed to be given in this way, because wheat was scarce with the Tyrians, and they were obliged to have it from the Jews, Acts 12:20, AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEASURES OF BARLEY; the measures of both these were the cor, of which see 1 Kings 5:11, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and tw

2. THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE The Beginning and Appeal to Huram CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Solomon's purpose (2 Chronicles 2:1)_ 2. The workmen (2 Chronicles 2:2) 3. The message to Huram, King of Tyre (2 Chronicles 2:3) 4. Huram's answer (2 Chronicles 2:11) 5. Solomon numbers the strangers (2 Chronicles 2:17) In 1 Kings 5, Solomon purposed to begin the great work to which he had been called,

PREPARATIONS FOR THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (see notes on 1 Kings 5:5). 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 Chronicler's source....

I WILL GIVE TO THY SERVANTS. No discrepancy here with 1 Kings 5:11. There the allowance was for Hiram's household at Tyre; here for Hiram's labourers in Lebanon. BEATEN WHEAT: i.e. wheat prepared for food. BATHS. See App-51....

_measures_ Hebrew, _cors_. A _cor_was the same as a _homer_= 393.9 litres. _beaten wheat_ 1 Kings 5:11, _wheat for food_. The text is doubtful, and the phrase _beaten wheat_occurs nowhere else and is uncertain in meaning. _of barley_ The barley and wine are not mentioned in 1 Kings 5:11; there wheat and oil only are mentioned. _twenty thousand baths of oil_ in 1 Kings 5:11 (Heb.) _twenty cors of pure oil_. As ten _baths_went to a cor, the amount stated in Chron. is a hundred times as much as the amount given in 1 Kings (7878 litres)....

2. PREPARATIONS FOR THE TEMPLE (Chapter 2) TEXT 2 Chronicles 2:1. Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom. 2. And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them. 3. And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, even so deal with me. 4. Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt-offerings mornirig and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Jehovah our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel. 5. And the ho

2:10 measures (e-16) measures (e-23) Heb. _ Cors_ . see Note, ch. 27.5. wheat, (f-19) Perhaps 'wheat for food.'...