2 Chronicles 2:16

_AND WE WILL CUT WOOD OUT OF LEBANON, AS MUCH AS THOU SHALT NEED: AND WE WILL BRING IT TO THEE IN FLOATS BY SEA TO JOPPA; AND THOU SHALT CARRY IT UP TO JERUSALEM._ We will cut wood out of Lebanon ... and ... bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa, and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem. The road between Joppa and Jerusalem, now called Wady, Suleiman, 'the valley of Solomon' (Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' 3:, pp. 57, 81; 'Handbook of Syria and Palestine,' p. 288; Stanley's 'Sinai and Palestine,' p. 257; 'Negeb,' p. 211), most probably received its name from having been constructed or improved by that monarch for the transport of the timber which Huram forwarded for the erection and furniture of the temple....

Verse 2 Chronicles 2:16. _IN FLOATS BY SEA TO JOPPA_] 1 Kings 5:9, and on the parallel places, for other matters contained in this chapter....

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;...

AND WE WILL CUT WOOD OUT OF LEBANON, AS MUCH AS THOU SHALL NEED,.... Both cedar and fir, 1 Kings 5:8, AND WE WILL BRING IT TO THEE IN FLOATS BY SEA TO JOPPA; a port in the Mediterranean sea, the same that Jonah went down to, 1 Kings 5:9, AND THOU SHALT CARRY IT UP TO JERUSALEM; in land carriages, about forty miles off....

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....

FLOATS. rafts....

_Joppa_ Hebrew, _Japho_, modern _Jaffa_(_Yâfâ_)....

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

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