I will give to thy servants. No discrepancy here with 1 Kings 5:11. There the allowance was for Hiram's household at Tyre; here for Hiram's labourers in Lebanon.
beaten wheat: i.e. wheat prepared for food.
baths. See App-51.
BEATEN WHEAT - The Hebrew text is probably corrupt here. The true original may be restored from marginal reference, where the wheat is said to have been given “for food.” The barley and the wine are...
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...
_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...
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...
_AND, BEHOLD, I WILL GIVE TO THY SERVANTS, THE HEWERS THAT CUT TIMBER, TWENTY THOUSAND MEASURES OF BEATEN WHEAT, AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEASURES OF BARLEY, AND TWENTY THOUSAND BATHS OF WINE, AND TWENTY T...
2:10 measures (e-16) measures (e-23) Heb. _ Cors_ . see Note, ch. 27.5. wheat, (f-19) Perhaps 'wheat for food.'...
SOLOMON'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH HIRAM This chapter substantially reproduces 1 Kings 5, with some differences in numbers, names, and expressions....
BEATEN WHEAT] probably a corruption of 'wheat for food': cp. 1 Kings 5:11....
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
AND, BEHOLD, I WILL GIVE... BARLEY. — Rather, _And, behold, for the hewers,_ that is, _for the woodcutters, I will give wheat as food for thy servants,_ viz., _twenty thousand kors, and barley twenty...
_[2 Chronicles 2:9]_ וְ הִנֵּ֣ה לַֽ † חֹטְבִ֣ים...
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...
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty (d...
_Wheat. Hebrew adds, "beaten." --- Barley and wine are not specified [in] 3 Kings v. 11. (Calmet) --- Measures, like the Roman amphora, contained 960 ozs. (Cornelius a Lapide) --- Hebrew has, "batim,...
The message here recorded, which Solomon sent to Hiram, is much more particularly related than the parallel one in the book of the Kings. I beg the Reader to mark this. There is very great beauty, as...
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...
BEHOLD, I WILL GIVE TO THY SERVANTS, THE HEWERS THAT CUT TIMBER, TWENTY THOUSAND MEASURES OF BEATEN WHEAT,.... Meaning, not what was beaten out of the husk with the flail, as some; nor bruised or half...
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty th...
_Behold, I will give thy servants twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat_, &c. Solomon would not feed his workmen with bread and water, but with plenty of provisions, and of the best kind. They that...
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, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures (about one hundred and sixty thousand bushels) OF BEATEN WHEAT, roasted grain in this form being a staple...
Solomon's Message to Huram...
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 2:10 give H5414 (H8804) servants H5650 woodsmen H2404 (H8802) cut H3772 (H8802) timber H6086
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...
_Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold._ HURAM AND SOLOMON Learn from this intercourse-- I. That friendship in life is helpful. II. That co-operation among men is desirable. III. Th...
_And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord._ SOLOMON’S PREDESTINED WORK Solomon was born to do this work. There is no need for the rose to say, “Now I am going to be beautiful...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 2:3 Solomon’s letter to HIRAM, KING OF TYRE (who had earlier assisted David; 1 Chro
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...
1 Kings 5:11; 1 Kings 7:26; 1 Kings 7:38; Ezra 7:22; Luke 10:7;...