2 Chronicles 2:1-10
Solomon's Message to Huram... [ Continue Reading ]
Solomon's Message to Huram... [ Continue Reading ]
And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord, he made arrangements to carry out the last wishes of his father, AND AN HOUSE FOR HIS KINGDOM, a royal palace to display all his wealth and power.... [ Continue Reading ]
Arid Solomon told out, raised by conscription, THREESCORE AND TEN THOUSAND MEN TO BEAR BURDENS, in the actual erection of the Temple, AND FOURSCORE THOUSAND TO HEW IN THE MOUNTAIN, in preparing the stones and the lumber, AND THREE THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED TO OVERSEE THEM. This preliminary note indic... [ Continue Reading ]
And Solomon sent to Huram (or Hiram), THE KING OF TYRE, SAYING, AS THOU DIDST DEAL WITH DAVID, MY FATHER, AND DIDST SEND HIM CEDARS TO BUILD HIM AN HOUSE TO DWELL THEREIN, 1 Chronicles 14:1, EVEN SO DEAL WITH ME, he was anxious to have the friendly relationship with all that it implied continue.... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord, my God, to dedicate it to Him, set it aside for His worship, AND TO BURN BEFORE HIM SWEET INCENSE, literally, "to perfume before His face sweet spices," as it was done in the morning and the evening worship, Exodus 25:6, AND FOR THE CONTINUAL SHOWBRE... [ Continue Reading ]
And. the house which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods; its magnificence should, in away, express the incomparable greatness of the true God.... [ Continue Reading ]
But who is able to build Him an house, that is, one in which He would actually dwell, in which He would be enclosed as the heathen idols were in their shrines, seeing THE HEAVEN AND HEAVEN OF HEAVENS CANNOT CONTAIN HIM? WHO AM I, THEN, THAT I SHOULD BUILD HIM AN HOUSE, SAVE ONLY TO BURN SACRIFICE BE... [ Continue Reading ]
Send me now, therefore, a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, an artist familiar with the work in all precious metals, AND IN PURPLE, AND CRIMSON, AND BLUE, true purple, scarlet-red, and hyacinth being the three dyes in whose preparation the Tyrians were most skilf... [ Continue Reading ]
Send me also cedar-trees, fir trees, that is, cypresses, AND ALGUM-TREES, sandal-wood, OUT OF LEBANON, the last-named, though not growing in the mountains, being procured by Huram as an article of commerce; FOR I KNOW THAT THY SERVANTS CAN SKILL TO CUT TIMBER IN LEBANON, for that was one of the chie... [ Continue Reading ]
even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great, literally, "great and wonderful. ... [ Continue Reading ]
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures (about one hundred and sixty thousand bushels) OF BEATEN WHEAT, roasted grain in this form being a staple article of food in the Orient, AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEASURES OF BARLEY, AND TWENTY THOUSAND BATHS (a... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Huram, the king of Tyre, having received Solomon's message delivered to him in the form of a letter, ANSWERED IN WRITING, WHICH HE SENT TO SOLOMON, BECAUSE THE LORD HATH LOVED HIS PEOPLE, HE HATH MADE THEE KING OVER THEM; for wise and good kings are a gift of His merciful goodness.... [ Continue Reading ]
Huram's Kind Answer... [ Continue Reading ]
Huram said moreover. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, with whose worship he was evidently familiar, having accepted the true God in faith, THAT MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, WHO HATH GIVEN TO DAVID THE KING A WISE SON, ENDUED WITH PRUDENCE AND UNDERSTANDING, not a dead knowledge, but one which readily ad... [ Continue Reading ]
And now I have sent a cunning man, an artist such as Solomon desired accompanied the embassy to Jerusalem, ENDUED WITH UNDERSTANDING, OF HURAM, MY FATHER'S, the master's name itself being Huram, like that of the king, 1 Kings 7:13,... [ Continue Reading ]
the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device, to work out any p... [ Continue Reading ]
Now, therefore, the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants;... [ Continue Reading ]
and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need; and we will bring it to thee in floats, huge rafts, BY SEA TO JOPPA, along the shores of the Mediterranean; AND THOU SHALT CARRY IT UP TO JERUSALEM, the distance which the lumber had to be hauled over land being some thirty miles.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, the members and descendants of heathen nations in the midst of Israel, AFTER THE NUMBERING WHEREWITH DAVID, HIS FATHER, HAD NUMBERED THEM, 1 Chronicles 22:2; AND THEY WERE FOUND AN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND AND THREE THOUSAND A... [ Continue Reading ]
And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, both to hew stones and to fell timber, AND THREE THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED OVERSEERS TO SET THE PEOPLE A WORK, this being the total number, of which three thousand were non-Is... [ Continue Reading ]