Hewers in the mountains — He would not employ the free — born Israelites in this drudgery, but the strangers that were proselytes, who having no lands, applied themselves to trades, and got their living by their industry or ingenuity.
On the numbers, see the 1 Kings 5:16 note. TO SET THE PEOPLE A WORK - Or, “to set the people to work” - i. e., to compel them to labor. Probably, like the Egyptian and Assyrian overseers of forced la...
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 ...
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 t...
SET... A WORK. keep the people at work....
_three thousand and six hundred overseers_ In 1 Kings 5:16, _three thousand and three hundred. Three_in Hebrew (which may be represented in English by the letters SLS) is easily corrupted into _six_(S...
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...
SOLOMON'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH HIRAM This chapter substantially reproduces 1 Kings 5, with some differences in numbers, names, and expressions....
IN THE MOUNTAIN] probably the hill-country of Judah....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE SOLOMON RULES *ISRAEL 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 PREPARATIONS FOR THE *TEMPLE – 2 CHRONICLES 2:1-18 V1 Solomo
Solomon’s levy of Canaanite labourers. (A return to the subject of 2 Chronicles 2:2.)...
AND HE SET... — Literally, _and he made seventy thousand of them bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains._ This exactly agrees with 1 Kings 5:15. AND THREE THOUSAND AND SIX HUN...
_[2 Chronicles 2:17]_ וַ יַּ֨עַשׂ מֵהֶ֜ם שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֨לֶף֙
SOLOMON THE chronicler's history of Solomon is constructed on the same principles as that of David, and for similar reasons. The builder of the first Temple commanded the grateful reverence of a commu...
The king's devotion to the highest work of his life was, however, unhindered, and the second chapter gives us the story of how he commenced his preparations for doing that work by new commercial treat...
_Six. We read three, 3 Kings v. 16.: people who where strangers, as the Israelites were not forced to work, chap. viii. 9. (Calmet)_...
REFLECTIONS IN the view here given of Solomon's temple, the workmen, and the materials taken and gathered from afar, I would contemplate how Solomon, my God and King, hath gathered the workmen and mat...
We may in some measure, form some faint idea of the wonderful structure of Solomon's temple, which was finished in seven years, from the number of hands employed. But what is this to the grand thought...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 7. Thus Solomon having prayed, and entreated Jehovah that His eyes should be open, and His ears attent to the prayers that should be offered to Him...
AND HE SET THREESCORE AND TEN THOUSAND OF THEM,.... Which is repeated from 2 Chronicles 2:2, to show how the above number of strangers were disposed of; 70,000 of them bearers of burdens, 80,000 of th...
And he set threescore and ten thousand of them [to be] bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand [to be] hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work....
_To be hewers in the mountain_ He would not employ the free- born Israelites in this drudgery, but the strangers that were proselytes, who, having no lands, applied themselves to trades, and got their...
1 and 17 Solomons labourers for the building of the Temple. 3 His embassage to Huram for workemen and prouision of stuffe. 11 Huram sendeth him a kinde answere. 1 AND Solomon determined to build a...
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...
Huram's Kind Answer...
SOLOMON'S REQUEST FROM HIRAM (vv.1-10). As the Lord had foretold to David, He worked upon Solomon's heart to make him determine to build both a temple for the Lord and a royal house for himself (v.1...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Chronicles 2:18 made H6213 (H8799) seventy H7657 thousand H505 burdens H5449 eighty H8084 thousand H505 stonecutters...
CONTENTS: Preparation to build the temple. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hiram, King of Tyre. CONCLUSION: (2 Chronicles 2:4-6) It becomes us to go about every work for God with a due sense of our utter...
2 Chronicles 2:1. _A house._ The word temple among the Jews, gradually obtained from the Gentiles. The Egyptians were the first that built temples; the Greeks and the Tyrians followed, as they rose to...
_And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel._ NATURALISATION OF FOREIGNERS I. A good government will tend to make a country attractive to foreigners. II. Foreigners thus...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter corresponds with 1 Kings 5. It comprises preparations for building the temple (2 Chronicles 2:1); Solomon’s message to Huram (2 Chronicles 2:3); Huram’s reply ...
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 fre...
Now Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a house for his kingdom. And Solomon told out [or counted out] seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men to cu...
2 Chronicles 2:2...