Solomon's Preparations for Building the Temple 1, 2 (2 Chronicles 2:17-18 [1:18, 2 Chronicles 2:1, Heb.] _below_; 1 Kings 5:15). Bearers and Hewers 1. _determined_ R.V. PURPOSED, as in 1 Kings 5:5. _for the name_ cp. 1 Chronicles 22:7; 1 Chronicles 22:10; 1Ch 22:19; 1 Chronicles 28:3;... [ Continue Reading ]
_told out_ The 150,000 bearers and hewers mentioned here are said to have been _aliens_(2 Chronicles 2:17). This statement is confirmed by 1 Kings 5:15 which distinguishes them from the levy of 30,000 hewers raised out of all Israel (_ib_. 1 Kings 5:13). The 30,000 Israelites were subject to a corvé... [ Continue Reading ]
_Huram_ Another form of _Hiram_(1 Kings 5:1 [15, Heb.]) which is a shortened form of _Ahiram_(Hebrew, _Aḥ_"brother" and _râm_"exalted"). Yet another form is _Hirom_(1 Kings 5:10; see R.V. mg.). The Phœnician language is written with even fewer vowel signs than are found in ancient Hebrew; hence the... [ Continue Reading ]
[2 9, Heb.] (1 Kings 5:2-6). Solomon's Message to Huram This passage is much fuller in Chron. than in 1 Kings, which offers no parallel to Solomon's language with regard to the Temple; 2 Chronicles 2:4-6. Again 2 Chronicles 2:7 (the request for a "cunning man") has no nearer parallel than 1 Kings 7... [ Continue Reading ]
_the continual shewbread_ See 1 Chronicles 9:32, notes; Leviticus 24:5-9. _on the solemn feasts_) R.V. ON THE SET FEASTS. Cp. 1 Chronicles 23:31, note.... [ Continue Reading ]
_is able_ Lit. _retaineth strength_; 1 Chronicles 29:14. Cp. 2 Chronicles 6:2; 2 Chronicles 6:18. _to burn sacrifice_ R.V. TO BURN INCENSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_can skill to grave_ Literally, _knoweth how to grave_. _to grave with the cunning_men] R.V. TO GRAVE ALL MANNER OF GRAVINGS, TO BE WITH THE CUNNING MEN. _To grave_is "to carve." Cp. 1 Kings 6:29. _my father did provide_ See 1 Chronicles 22:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
_fir trees_ R.V. mg., _cypress trees_(which however are not now indigenous on Lebanon). _algum trees_ called _almug trees_in 1 Kings 10:11-12 and there described as coming from Ophir. According to 1 Kings 5:8 Solomon asked for cedar and "fir" only; so that the mention of algum trees here is probabl... [ Continue Reading ]
_measures_ Hebrew, _cors_. A _cor_was the same as a _homer_= 393.9 litres. _beaten wheat_ 1 Kings 5:11, _wheat for food_. The text is doubtful, and the phrase _beaten wheat_occurs nowhere else and is uncertain in meaning. _of barley_ The barley and wine are not mentioned in 1 Kings 5:11; there whe... [ Continue Reading ]
[10 15, Heb.] (1 Kings 5:7-9). Huram's Answer to Solomon 11. _hath loved_ R.V. LOVETH. Cp. 2 Chronicles 9:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
_prudence and understanding_ R.V. DISCRETION AND UNDERSTANDING (as in 1 Chronicles 22:12, R.V.). _that might build_ R.V. THAT SHOULD BUILD.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have sent_ According to 1 Kings 7:13 Solomon himself sent and fetched Hiram the artificer. _of Huram my father's_) Better as R.V. mg., EVEN HURAM MY FATHER. Huram the king calls Huram the artificer _my father_as a title of honour. Cp. 2 Chronicles 4:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
_of Dan_ in 1 Kings 7:14, _of Naphtali_. The reading of Chron. may have arisen from Exodus 31:6 (Oholiab one of the artificers of the _tabernacle_was of the tribe _of Dan_). _to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning_men] R.V. TO DEVISE ANY DEVICE: THAT THERE MAY BE A PLA... [ Continue Reading ]
_Joppa_ Hebrew, _Japho_, modern _Jaffa_(_Yâfâ_).... [ Continue Reading ]
[16, 17, Heb.] (cp. 2). Bearers and Hewers 17. _David his father_ See 1 Chronicles 22:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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_(SS in English). Cp. also 2 Chronicles 8:10 (1 Kings 9:23). _a work_ i.e. _on work, to work_.... [ Continue Reading ]