2 Chronicles 8:1
2 Chronicles 8:1-6 (cp. 1 Kings 9:10-11; 1 Kings 9:17-19). Solomon's Cities 1. _twenty years_ Cp. 1 Kings 6:38; 1 Kings 7:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Chronicles 8:1-6 (cp. 1 Kings 9:10-11; 1 Kings 9:17-19). Solomon's Cities 1. _twenty years_ Cp. 1 Kings 6:38; 1 Kings 7:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon_,] R.V. THE CITIES WHICH HURAM HAD GIVEN TO SOLOMON. According to 1 Kings 9:12-13 it was Solomon who gave _Huram_cities. Huram however was not pleased with them (_ibid._), and from this fact the English translators of 1611 concluded that Huram rejected... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hamath-zobah_ The two kingdoms of Hamath and Zobah are distinguished from one another (1 Chronicles 18:3; 1 Chronicles 18:9 = 1 Samuel 8:3; 1 Samuel 8:9), Hamath apparently being north of Zobah. It is probable however that _Hamath_as the name of a city belonged to more than one place, and Hamath-Zo... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tadmor in the wilderness_ Palmyra (_Bädeker_, p. 364) is meant, a city on an oasis N.E. of Damascus half way between Damascus and the Euphrates. Apart from this passage of Chron. it first appears in history in b.c. 34, when it was threatened with attack by Mark Antony. This silence of history for a... [ Continue Reading ]
_Beth-horon the upper_ Not mentioned in the parallel passage (1 Kings 9:17).... [ Continue Reading ]
_Baalath_ A city in the tribe of Dan not far from Gezer and Beth-horon (1 Kings 9:18). _chariot cities_ See note on 2 Chronicles 1:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
(1 Kings 9:20-23). Solomon's Task-workers 7. _Hittites … Jebusites_ See notes on 1 Chronicles 1:13-15.... [ Continue Reading ]
but _of their children_ R.V. OF THEIR CHILDREN. _them did Solomon make to pay tribute_ R.V. OF THEM DID SOLOMON RAISE A LEVY OF BONDSERVANTS. The word "tribute" (A.V.) suggests payment in money, but, as may be seen from 2 Chronicles 2:17-18, the subject peoples acknowledged their subjection otherwi... [ Continue Reading ]
_and chief of his captains_ Read (with 1 Kings 9:22) AND HIS PRINCES AND HIS CAPTAINS. The statements of this verse must be read in connexion with 1 Kings 5:13 ff; 1 Kings 12:4 ff., whence it appears that though Solomon did not actually reduce any Israelite to permanent slavery, yet he imposed upon... [ Continue Reading ]
_And these_were _the chief_ After this preface (cp. 1 Kings 9:23) we expect both here and in 1 Kin. a list of these persons; cp. 1Ch 11:10 ff; 1 Chronicles 12:1 ff. Possibly the text of 1 Kin. suffered at an early date, and the list was missing when the Chronicler wrote. _two hundred and fifty_ Acco... [ Continue Reading ]
(1 Kings 9:24). The House of Pharaoh's Daughter 11. _for he said, My wife_, etc.] These words are an addition of the Chronicler. In 1 Kings 3:1 it is said simply that Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter into the city of David until his own house was finished. _My wife shall not dwell_ Render, NO WI... [ Continue Reading ]
(cp. 1 Kings 9:25). Solomon's arrangements for the Temple Worship This paragraph is in the main an expansion of 1 Kings 9:25. 12. _on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch_ This refers to the great brasen altar of burnt-offering (2 Chronicles 4:1). In 1 Kin. the statement is th... [ Continue Reading ]
_according to the order_ R.V. ACCORDING TO THE ORDINANCE. _of David_ Cp. 1 Chronicles 24-26. _to praise and minister before the priests_ R.V. TO PRAISE, AND TO MINISTER BEFORE THE PRIESTS; cp. 1 Chronicles 23:28. _the porters_ R.V. THE DOOR-KEEPERS. _David the man of God_ Targ. _David the prophe... [ Continue Reading ]
_Now all the work of Solomon was prepared_ Reader, SO ALL THE WORK OF SOLOMON WAS ESTABLISHED. _unto the day … was perfected_ LXX offers a much shorter and smoother text, _from the day on which it was founded until Solomon perfected the house of the Lord_. This reading is probably right.... [ Continue Reading ]
(1 Kings 9:26-28). Solomon's Fleet 17. _to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth_ In 1 Kin. _Ezion-geber which is beside Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea_. Strictly speaking it was at the head of the Gulf of Akaba, the eastern arm of the Red Sea. Cp. 2 Chronicles 20:36 (R.V.) and Deuteronomy 2:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
_sent him by the hand of his servants ships_ The natural interpretation of these words is that Huram had ships transported overland from the Phœnician coast to the Gulf of Akaba, a difficult but not impossible task. In 1 Kin. however it is merely said that Solomon built ships in Ezion-geber probably... [ Continue Reading ]