1 Kings 3:1
AFFINITY. relationship by marriage.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFFINITY. relationship by marriage.... [ Continue Reading ]
ONLY. May imply regret rather than censure. Compare 1 Kings 15:14, &c. IN HIGH PLACES. Deuteronomy 12:11; Deuteronomy 12:14; Deuteronomy 12:26; Deuteronomy 12:27, not obeyed since Jehovah had forsaken Shiloh. Compare Psalms 78:60; Psalms 78:67;... [ Continue Reading ]
STATUTES OF DAVID. Contrast "the statutes of Omri" (Micah 6:16), and"statutes of the heathen" (2 Kings 17:8). HIGH PLACES. Not necessarily idolatrous (see note on 1 Kings 3:2, and compare 1 Chronicles 16:39; 1 Chronicles 21:29; 2 Chronicles 1:3; 2 Chronicles 1:13), though perhaps copied from Canaani... [ Continue Reading ]
DREAM. One of the twenty in Scripture. See note on Genesis 20:3. God. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAID: i.e. in his sleep. Compare 1 Kings 3:15. See note on Psalms 127:2. MERCY. grace, or lovingkindness.... [ Continue Reading ]
A LITTLE CHILD. In his father's eyes. "wise man" (1 Kings 2:6; 1 Kings 2:9). I KNOW NOT. I shall not know. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and know not", indicating the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ here, and in the following verses. App-6. TO GO OUT OR COME IN. Compare... [ Continue Reading ]
GIVE. Compare 2 Chronicles 1:10. UNDERSTANDING. hearing. Solomon began by asking wisdom from God. Rehoboam (his son) began by asking counsel from man (1 Kings 12:6; 1 Kings 12:8).... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKE THEE. Supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_, by adding "among the kings" from 1 Kings 3:13 with 1 Kings 10:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANY. a man. Hebrew. _ish_. App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as. THY FATHER DAVID. Compare 1 Kings 15:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
OFFERED. prepared. See App-43. Showing that the Ceremonial Law was in writing before the days of Solomon, and not. later production, as asserted and assumed by some.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WAS NO STRANGER. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and there was no stranger".... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILD. son. OVERLAID. One of the ten deaths occasioned by women. See note on Judges 4:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPAKE. talked [very much]. Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6), to be supplied.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAID. kept on saying.... [ Continue Reading ]
WISDOM OF GOD. Divine wisdom. Genitive of Character. See App-17, and compare note on 1 Kings 3:9 above.... [ Continue Reading ]