_AND HIRAM KING OF TYRE SENT HIS SERVANTS UNTO SOLOMON; FOR HE HAD HEARD THAT THEY HAD ANOINTED HIM KING IN THE ROOM OF HIS FATHER: FOR HIRAM WAS EVER A LOVER OF DAVID._ Hiram ... sent his servants unto Solomon. This Hiram was the grandson of David's contemporary (Kitto). He was the same Hiram, acc... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SOLOMON SENT TO HIRAM, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE COMMAND THOU THAT THEY HEW ME CEDAR TREES OUT OF LEBANON; AND MY SERVANTS SHALL BE WITH THY SERVANTS: AND UNTO THEE WILL I GIVE HIRE FOR THY SERVANTS ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THOU SHALT APPOINT: FOR THOU KNOWEST THAT THERE IS NOT AMONG US ANY THAT CAN SKILL TO HEW TIMBER LIKE UNTO THE SI... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HIRAM HEARD THE WORDS OF SOLOMON, THAT HE REJOICED GREATLY, AND SAID, BLESSED BE THE LORD THIS DAY, WHICH HATH GIVEN UNTO DAVID A WISE SON OVER THIS GREAT PEOPLE._ Blessed be the Lord. This language is no decisive evidence that Hiram was a worshipper of the true God, as h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIRAM SENT TO SOLOMON, SAYING, I HAVE CONSIDERED THE THINGS WHICH THOU SENTEST TO ME FOR: AND I WILL DO ALL THY DESIRE CONCERNING TIMBER OF CEDAR, AND CONCERNING TIMBER OF FIR._ I have considered the things ... and I will do. The contract was drawn out formally in a written document (2 Chronic... [ Continue Reading ]
_MY SERVANTS SHALL BRING THEM DOWN FROM LEBANON UNTO THE SEA: AND I WILL CONVEY THEM BY SEA IN FLOATS UNTO THE PLACE THAT THOU SHALT APPOINT ME, AND WILL CAUSE THEM TO BE DISCHARGED THERE, AND THOU SHALT RECEIVE THEM: AND THOU SHALT ACCOMPLISH MY DESIRE, IN GIVING FOOD FOR MY HOUSEHOLD._ No JFB com... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO HIRAM GAVE SOLOMON CEDAR TREES AND FIR TREES ACCORDING TO ALL HIS DESIRE._ Fir trees - rather, the cypress.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SOLOMON GAVE HIRAM TWENTY THOUSAND MEASURES OF WHEAT FOR FOOD TO HIS HOUSEHOLD, AND TWENTY_ _ MEASURES OF PURE OIL: THUS GAVE SOLOMON TO HIRAM YEAR BY YEAR._ Food to his household. This was an annual supply for the palace, different from that mentioned in 2 Chronicles 2:10, which was for the w... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD GAVE SOLOMON WISDOM, AS HE PROMISED HIM: AND THERE WAS PEACE BETWEEN HIRAM AND SOLOMON; AND THEY TWO MADE A LEAGUE TOGETHER._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND KING SOLOMON RAISED A LEVY OUT OF ALL ISRAEL; AND THE LEVY WAS THIRTY THOUSAND MEN._ Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel, х_ MAC_ (H4522)] - (see the notes at 1 Kings 4:6, last clause.) The renewed notice of Solomon's divine gift of wisdom (1 Kings 5:12) is evidently introduced to prepare... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SENT THEM TO LEBANON, TEN THOUSAND A MONTH BY COURSES: A MONTH THEY WERE IN LEBANON, AND TWO MONTHS AT HOME: AND ADONIRAM WAS OVER THE LEVY._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING COMMANDED, AND THEY BROUGHT GREAT STONES, COSTLY STONES, AND HEWED STONES, TO LAY THE FOUNDATION OF THE HOUSE._ Brought great stones. The stone of Lebanon is 'hard, calcareous, whitish, and sonorous, like freestone' (Shaw). The same white and beautiful stone is to be gotten in every p... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SOLOMON'S BUILDERS AND HIRAM'S BUILDERS DID HEW THEM, AND THE STONESQUARERS: SO THEY PREPARED TIMBER AND STONES TO BUILD THE HOUSE._ And the stone-squarers. The margin, which renders it 'the Giblites' (Joshua 13:5), has long been considered a preferable translation. This marginal translation a... [ Continue Reading ]