_AND SOLOMON MADE AFFINITY WITH PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT, AND TOOK PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, AND BROUGHT HER INTO THE CITY OF DAVID, UNTIL HE HAD MADE AN END OF BUILDING HIS OWN HOUSE, AND THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND THE WALL OF JERUSALEM ROUND ABOUT._ Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. This was a royal tit... [ Continue Reading ]
_ONLY THE PEOPLE SACRIFICED IN HIGH PLACES, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO HOUSE BUILT UNTO THE NAME OF THE LORD, UNTIL THOSE DAYS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SOLOMON LOVED THE LORD, WALKING IN THE STATUTES OF DAVID HIS FATHER: ONLY HE SACRIFICED AND BURNT INCENSE IN HIGH PLACES._ Solomon loved the Lord. This declaration, illustrated by what follows, affords undoubted evidence of the young king's piety; nor is the word "only," which prefaces the sta... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING WENT TO GIBEON TO SACRIFICE THERE; FOR THAT WAS THE GREAT HIGH PLACE: A THOUSAND BURNT OFFERINGS DID SOLOMON OFFER UPON THAT ALTAR._ The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, х_ GIB`OWN_ (H1391), a hill-city, standing on a hill (el-Jib).] The prominent distinction of this place aros... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN GIBEON THE LORD APPEARED TO SOLOMON IN A DREAM BY NIGHT: AND GOD SAID, ASK WHAT I SHALL GIVE THEE._ In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. It was probably at the close of this season, when his mind had been elevated into a high state of religious fervour by the protracted services.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SOLOMON SAID, THOU HAST SHEWED UNTO THY SERVANT DAVID MY FATHER GREAT MERCY, ACCORDING AS HE WALKED BEFORE THEE IN TRUTH, AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND IN UPRIGHTNESS OF HEART WITH THEE; AND THOU HAST KEPT FOR HIM THIS GREAT KINDNESS, THAT THOU HAST GIVEN HIM A SON TO SIT ON HIS THRONE, AS IT IS TH... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NOW, O LORD MY GOD, THOU HAST MADE THY SERVANT KING INSTEAD OF DAVID MY FATHER: AND I AM BUT A LITTLE CHILD: I KNOW NOT HOW TO GO OUT OR COME IN._ I am but a little child - not in age, because he had reached manhood (1 Kings 2:9), and must have been at least 20 years old (Josephus erroneously... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THY SERVANT IS IN THE MIDST OF THY PEOPLE WHICH THOU HAST CHOSEN, A GREAT PEOPLE, THAT CANNOT BE NUMBERED NOR COUNTED FOR MULTITUDE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SPEECH PLEASED THE LORD, THAT SOLOMON HAD ASKED THIS THING._ The speech pleased the Lord. It was Solomon's waking prayers that God heard and requited; but the acceptance was signified in this vision.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GOD SAID UNTO HIM, BECAUSE THOU HAST ASKED THIS THING, AND HAST NOT ASKED FOR THYSELF LONG LIFE; NEITHER HAST ASKED RICHES FOR THYSELF, NOR HAST ASKED THE LIFE OF THINE ENEMIES; BUT HAST ASKED FOR THYSELF UNDERSTANDING TO DISCERN JUDGMENT;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SOLOMON AWOKE; AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS A DREAM. AND HE CAME TO JERUSALEM, AND STOOD BEFORE THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD, AND OFFERED UP BURNT OFFERINGS, AND OFFERED PEACE OFFERINGS, AND MADE A FEAST TO ALL HIS SERVANTS._ Behold, it was a dream. The vivid impression, the indelible recollecti... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN CAME THERE TWO WOMEN, THAT WERE HARLOTS, UNTO THE KING, AND STOOD BEFORE HIM._ Then came there two women. Eastern monarchs, who generally administer justice in person-at least in all cases of difficulty-having their seat in the gate of the city (Solomon afterward built "the porch of judgment,... [ Continue Reading ]