QUEEN OF SHEBA. Compare 2 Chronicles 9:1. SHEBA,. grandson of Cush, settled in Ethiopia (Genesis 10:7): i.e. Nubia and North Abyssinia, where female sovereigns were not unusual. Compare Acts 8:27. HEARD. kept hearing. By the commercial intercourse of 1 Kings 9:26. Compare 2 Chronicles 8:17; 2 Chron... [ Continue Reading ]
SHE CAME. Note the use of this made by the Lord Jesus in Matthew 12:42.Luke 11:31. SOLOMON. Some codices, with four early printed editions, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "King Solomon".... [ Continue Reading ]
SITTING. seated assembly. ATTENDANCE. standing. ASCENT. The covered stairway connecting Mount Zion (Jebus) with Mount Moriah. Compare 2 Kings 16:18. Ascent is the word for burnt or "ascending offering", by the merits of which we ascend now. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACTS. words.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
DELIGHTED. See note on Numbers 14:8; 2 Samuel 15:26. JUSTICE. righteousness.... [ Continue Reading ]
NAVY ALSO OF HIRAM. Joined with Solomon (1 Kings 10:22; 1 Kings 9:27; 1 Kings 9:28). OPHIR. See note on 2 Chronicles 8:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF HIS ROYAL BOUNTY. Hebrew according to the hand of king Solomon.... [ Continue Reading ]
CAME. Probably in tariffs. SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX. 666. Symbolical of the height or essence of man's desire, but all vanity (App-10). Compare Ecclesiastes 2:8; Ecclesiastes 2:11; 1 Timothy 6:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHIELDS. Taken away by Shishak in the reign of Rehoboam (1 Kings 14:26).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BEST. pure.... [ Continue Reading ]
TOP. canopy. STAYS. supports. Literally hands.... [ Continue Reading ]
NAVY OF THARSHISH. Tharshish ships,. name for large ocean-going ships (like English "East-Indiamen"). When mentioned as. place it is identified by Oppert with Tartessis. the Andalusia of to-day, noted for silver (not gold), iron, tin, and lead (Jeremiah 10:9; Ezekiel 27:12). They sailed from Tyre to... [ Continue Reading ]
BROUGHT. kept bringing.... [ Continue Reading ]
SYCOMORE. Not English, but Eastern;. kind of fig, or mulberry.... [ Continue Reading ]
HORSES. Compare Isaiah 31:1; Isaiah 36:9. Also Ezekiel 17:15. LINEN YARN. Probably. by strings, or droves (i.e. the horses).... [ Continue Reading ]
KINGS OF THE HITTITES. Compare 1 Samuel 26:6; 2 Kings 7:6. These passages alleged to be unhistoric! but they are confirmed by the discoveries made in 1874 throughout Asia Minor and North Syria, which identify them with the "sons of Heth" (Genesis 23:3; Genesis 23:5; Genesis 23:7; Genesis 25:10; Gene... [ Continue Reading ]