2 Chronicles 2:11

_THEN HURAM THE KING OF TYRE ANSWERED IN WRITING, WHICH HE SENT TO SOLOMON, BECAUSE THE LORD HATH LOVED HIS PEOPLE, HE HATH MADE THEE KING OVER THEM._ THEN HURAM THE KING ... ANSWERED IN WRITING, WHICH HE SENT TO SOLOMON - literally, Then Huram the king said in writing, and sent it to Solomon. BECAUSE THE LORD HATH LOVED HIS PEOPLE ... This pious language creates a presumption that Huram might have attained some knowledge of the true religion from his long familiar contact with David. But the presumption, however pleasing, may be delusive (see the notes at 1 Kings 5:7)....

Verse 2 Chronicles 2:11. _ANSWERED IN WRITING_] Though correspondence among persons of distinction was, in these early times, carried on by confidential messengers, yet we find that epistolary correspondence did exist, and that kings could _write_ and _read_ in what were called by the proud and insolent _Greeks_ and _Romans_ barbarous nations. Nearly _two thousand_ years after this we find a king on the British throne who could not sign his own name. About the year of our Lord 700, Withred, king of Kent, thus concludes a charter to secure the liberties of the Church: _Ego Wythredus rex_ _Cantiae haec omnia suprascripta et confirmavi, atque, a me dictata_ _propria manu signum sanctae crucis pro ignorantia literarum_ _espressi_; "All the above dictated by myself, I have confirmed; and because I cannot write, I have with my own hand ex...

Josephus and others professed to give Greek versions of the correspondence, which (they said) had taken place between Hiram and Solomon. No value attaches to those letters, which are evidently forgeries. BECAUSE THE LORD HATH LOVED HIS PEOPLE - Compare the marginal references. The neighboring sovereigns, in their communications with the Jewish monarchs, seem to have adopted the Jewish name for the Supreme Being (Yahweh), either identifying Him (as did Hiram) with their own chief god or (sometimes) meaning merely to acknowledge Him as the special God of the Jewish nation and country....

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;...

THEN HURAM THE KING OF TYRE ANSWERED IN WRITING, WHICH HE SENT TO SOLOMON,.... In which letter he told him he had considered the contents of his, and would grant him all that he desired, see 1 Kings 5:8 BECAUSE THE LORD HATH LOVED HIS PEOPLE; HE HATH MADE THEE KING OVER THEM; which are much the same words the queen of Sheba said to Solomon, 1 Kings 10:9....

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....

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

2:11 answered (g-6) Lit. 'said.'...

SOLOMON'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH HIRAM This chapter substantially reproduces 1 Kings 5, with some differences in numbers, names, and expressions....