Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Samuel 5:11
For Lebanon, which was famous for its cedars, was a great part of it in his dominion. For the Tyrians were excellent artists and workmen, as both sacred and profane writers agree.
For Lebanon, which was famous for its cedars, was a great part of it in his dominion. For the Tyrians were excellent artists and workmen, as both sacred and profane writers agree.
Verse 2 Samuel 5:11. _HIRAM KING OF TYRE_] He was a very friendly man, and no doubt a believer in the true God. He was not only a friend to David, but also of his son Solomon, to whom, in building the...
HIRAM KING OF TYRE - Now mentioned for the first time. He survived David, and continued his friendship to Solomon (marginal references). The news of the capture of the city of the Jebusites had doubtl...
2. DAVID'S CONQUEST OF ZION AND VICTORY OVER THE PHILISTINES CHAPTER 5:6-25 _ 1. David's conquest of Zion (2 Samuel 5:6)_ 2. Hiram King of Tyre (2 Samuel 5:11) 3. David's additional concubines and...
DAVID BECOMES KING OF UNITED ISRAEL AND JUDAH. HE CAPTURES JERUSALEM (J). (_Cf._ p. 282.) Two notes have been added to this section (2 Samuel 5:4 f. and 2 Samuel 5:13), of the same character as 2 Samu...
HIRAM. Not the Hiram of 1 Kings 9:11, which was sixty years later. Josephus says he was his father. Compare 2 Chronicles 2:13; 1 Kings 5:1. TYRE. Israel had no war with Phoenicians. Asher failed to ex...
David's Palace and Family =1 Chronicles 14:1-7 11. _Hiram king of Tyre_ In 1Ki 5:10; 1 Kings 5:18, the name is spelt _Hirom_, in Chron. _Huram_. Josephus (against Apion i. 18) states, on the author...
HIRAM KING OF TYRE SENT MESSENGERS— The accounts left us of this king are but short; it is evident, however, that he was a magnificent and generous prince, and a believer in the true God, as appears f...
_David in Jerusalem._ 2 Samuel 5:6-16 6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and...
_AND HIRAM KING OF TYRE SENT MESSENGERS TO DAVID, AND CEDAR TREES, AND CARPENTERS, AND MASONS: AND THEY BUILT DAVID AN HOUSE._ Hiram king of Tyre - i:e., old Tyre, which stood on the continent. SEN...
DAVID IS ANOINTED KING, CAPTURES JERUSALEM, AND SMITES THE PHILISTINES 1. There was no longer any member of the house of Saul who could take the lead....
HIRAM] If we accept the statements of Josephus, this Hiram was the father of Solomon's friend (1 Kings 5:1). TYRE] the leading city of Phœnicia. THEY BUILT] For the skill of the Phœnicians in masonry...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 5 This chapter records three very important things that David did: (1) He united the nation of *Israel. (2) He made the city of Je...
HIRAM KING OF TYRE. — This is the same Hiram, variously spelt _Hirom_ and _Huram,_ who was afterwards the friend of Solomon (1 Kings 5:1; 2 Chronicles 2:3),and was still living in the twenty-fourth ye...
וַ֠ יִּשְׁלַח חִירָ֨ם מֶֽלֶךְ ־צֹ֥ר מַלְאָכִים֮...
CHAPTER VII. _ THE KINGDOM ESTABLISHED._ 2 Samuel 5:10. THE events in David's reign that followed the capture of Mount Zion and the appointment of Jerusalem as the capital of the country were all of...
DAVID KING IN JERUSALEM 2 Samuel 5:1 David was anointed thrice: by Samuel in his home, by the men of Judah, and here. So our Lord has been crowned in the Father's purpose and by his Church. There awa...
At this point the second section in the first movement of the Book commences. David had won the heart of all Israel by his consistent justice and magnanimity toward those who stood in the way of his c...
_Hiram was a magnificent prince, who kept up a correspondence with Solomon. He greatly adorned the city of Tyre. See Jospehus, contra Apion 1.)_...
(10) And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with him. (11) В¶ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built Dav...
We have seen the sorrowful circumstances out of which arose the first desire to have a king in Israel, and the remarkable fact that, although it was a sin, God nevertheless did not put the people back...
David, the king of Judah in Hebron for seven years and a half, becomes the king of all Israel upon Ishbosheth's death And now David is no longer the man of faith who, himself the head of the armies of...
AND HIRAM KING OF TYRE,.... This was father of that Hiram that lived in the times of Solomon, whose name was Abibalus before he took the name of Hiram, which became a common name of the kings of Tyre;...
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house. Ver. 11. _And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David._] To congratula...
_Hiram sent messengers to David_, &c. Hearing that he intended to settle in the fort he had taken, Hiram sent him both materials and artificers to build him a palace. For the Jews, being given to feed...
1 The tribes come to Hebron to annoint Dauid ouer Israel. 4 Dauids age. 6 Hee taking Zion from the Iebusites dwelleth in it. 11 Hiram sendeth to Dauid. 13 Eleuen sonnes are borne to him in Ierusal...
JERUSALEM MADE THE CAPITAL...
And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, a formal embassy, in order to establish friendly relations with the neighboring state, AND CEDAR-TREES, whose wood was much used for costly buildings...
Yet the sovereign wisdom of God has been over all these matters, and David's way becomes clear without his fighting for it. God's time had now come for the voluntary submission of the other tribes to...
MASONS: _ Heb._ hewers of the stone of the wall...
11-16 David's house was not the worse, nor the less fit to be dedicated to God, for being built by the sons of the stranger. It is prophesied of the gospel church, The sons of strangers shall build u...
2 Samuel 5:11 Hiram H2438 king H4428 Tyre H6865 sent H7971 (H8799) messengers H4397 David H1732 cedar H730 trees...
DAVID IS ESTABLISHED AS KING OVER ISRAEL, GROWING GREATER AND GREATER BECAUSE YHWH IS WITH HIM. THE KING OF TYRE SEEKS TREATY-FRIENDSHIP WITH DAVID AND BUILDS HIM A HOUSE OF CEDAR DEMONSTRATING THE ES...
CONTENTS: David becomes king over Israel. War with Philistines. CHARACTERS: God, David, Hiram. CONCLUSION: Those who have the Lord of Hosts for them need have no fear what hosts of men or demons can...
2 Samuel 5:2. _Thou shalt feed my people._ Probably the highpriest, or a prophet, delivered a short coronation charge, as Samuel had already done. This divine promise is made the final reason why they...
_And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David._ THE KINGDOM ESTABLISHED 1. Now the tide fairly turned in David’s history, and that, instead of a sad chronicle of hardship and disappointment, the...
_Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake saying, Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh._ DAVID KING OVER ALL ISRAEL It was probably very soon after the death of Ishbosheth...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 5:6 The account of David’s kingship over all of Israel starts with his capture of the Jebusite city of JERUSALEM, on the boundary between Judah and Benjamin. Jerusalem had no...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 5:11 HIRAM KING OF TYRE provides David with cedars to build his house. Tyre was a trading empire. It was important to them to keep the inland trade route from Israel to Egypt...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 5:6. “WENT TO JERUSALEM.” “That this took place immediately after the anointing of David as king of Israel is apparent not only from the fact that the account f...
EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 5:1 THEN CAME ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. As Ishbosheth reigned only two years, and David's reign at Hebron lasted for seven years and a half, there is an interval of more than five...
Then all of the tribes came to David there in Hebron, and they said, Behold, we're of your bone, we're of your flesh. In times past, when Saul was king, you were the one that led us out to victories o...
1 Chronicles 14:1; 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 5:2; 1 Kings 5:8; 1 Kings 5:9;...