The chief of Solomon’s officers we should certainly have supposed to have been taken from the Israelites (as clearly were the 550 named in 1 Kings 9:23). But the passage in Chronicles (2 Chronicles 2:18) — reckoning them at 3,600 — seems to imply that they were, like the overseers of Israel in the Egyptian bondage (Exodus 5:14), taken from the subject races.
Verse 1 Kings 5:16. _BESIDES - THREE THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED WHICH RULED_ _OVER THE PEOPLE_] In the parallel place, 2 Chronicles 2:18, it is _three thousand six hundred_. The Septuagint has here th...
Comparing this verse and 1 Kings 9:23 with 2 Chronicles 2:18; 2 Chronicles 8:10, the entire number of the overseers will be seen to be stated by both writers at 3,850; but in the one case nati
4. THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE AND ITS DEDICATION CHAPTER 5 Hiram King of Tyre _ 1. Hiram sends servants to Solomon (1 Kings 5:1)_ 2. The message of Solomon (1 Kings 5:2) 3. Hiram's answer and leag...
SOLOMON'S ALLIANCE WITH HIRAM. PREPARATION FOR THE TEMPLE. This chapter has a few Deuteronomic additions (1 Kings 5:3 and 1 Kings 5:12). In 1 Kings 5:4 there is a truly Deuteronomic touch: the one san...
_three thousand and three hundred_ This number differs by 300 from that given in the Chronicles. If the total of the census of the strangers there given be correct, then we ought to read 3600 as the n...
B. THE ORGANIZATION OF LABORERS 5:13-18 TRANSLATION (13) Then King Solomon raised a levy from all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. (14) And he sent them to Lebanon ten thousand a month i...
_AND HE SENT THEM TO LEBANON, TEN THOUSAND A MONTH BY COURSES: A MONTH THEY WERE IN LEBANON, AND TWO MONTHS AT HOME: AND ADONIRAM WAS OVER THE LEVY._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
SOLOMON'S PREPARATIONS FOR BUILDING THE TEMPLE 1. Hiram] see 2 Samuel 5; 1 Chronicles 14:1. It has been questioned whether this Hiram, who was living as late as Solomon's twentieth year (1 Kings 9:10)...
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 5 HIRAM ASSISTS SOLOMON Solomon’s first task as king was the construction of the *temple at Jerusalem. This would be a splendid building...
_[1 Kings 5:30]_ לְ֠ בַד מִ שָּׂרֵ֨י הַ...
1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1;...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
PREPARATIONS FOR THE GREAT TASK 1 Kings 5:7 It was good for Hiram and his Tyrians to be associated with the servants of Solomon. Together they hewed immense blocks of stone, some of which were thirty...
Solomon turned his attention to building the Temple immediately after he had set his kingdom in order. The first movement in this direction was the treaty with Hiram, and sending relays of men to the...
_Three hundred. In 2 Paralipomenon (ii. 2., and 18,) we read six hundred; (Haydock) as there are 300 superior officers included. (Calmet) (Menochius) (Sa, &c.) --- But these 3600 are all overseers. (H...
(10) В¶ So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire. (11) And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pur...
The books of First and Second Samuel show us the failure of the priesthood, and, in consequence, when a state of evident shame and dishonour overspread the face of Israel, the heart of the people desi...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 AND 5. Chapter 4 contains an enumeration of the officers who served Solomon, and upheld the glory of his throne; and then, the manner in which the whole co...
BESIDES THE CHIEF OF SOLOMON'S OFFICERS WHICH [WERE] OVER THE WORK,.... Over the whole work, preparatory for the building of the temple; though it seems chiefly to have respect to that of hewing the s...
Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which [were] over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work. Ver. 16. _Which ruled over the people._] And...
_That bare burdens_ Namely, porters, carters, seamen, and such like. _Fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains_ That is, hewers of stone, for timber was hewed by Hiram's servants in Lebanon. _Office...
[HIRAMS PROMISE TO SOLOMON.] 1 Hiram sending to congratulate Solomon, is certified of his purpose to build the Temple, and desired to furnish him with timber thereto. 7 Hiram blessing God for Solomo...
beside the chief of Solomon's officers, the foremen placed over the workmen, WHICH WERE OVER THE WORK, THREE THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED, WHICH RULED OVER THE PEOPLE THAT WROUGHT IN THE WORK. In the to...
ARRANGEMENTS CONCERNING MATERIAL...
PREPARATIONS FOR THE TEMPLE (vs.1-18) God had told David that Solomon would build a house for Him (2 Samuel 7:12), and David therefore prepared many materials for this. We read now of Solomon making...
10-18 The temple was chiefly built by the riches and labour of Gentiles, which typified their being called into the church. Solomon commanded, and they brought costly stones for the foundation. Chris...
Whereof 3000 were set over the 150,000, expressed 1 KINGS 5:15, each of these over 50 of them, and the odd 300 were set ever these 3000, each of these to have the oversight of ten of them, to take an...
1 Kings 5:16 three H7969 thousand H505 three H7969 hundred H3967 chiefs H8269 Solomons H8010 deputies H5324 (H8737) s
CONTENTS: Preparation for building the temple. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hiram. CONCLUSION: Satan does all he can to hinder the work of God's temple; but when he is withheld for a time, we should be...
1 Kings 5:1. _Tyre,_ situate on a strong island, was anciently called Zor or Zur, Thevenot supposes from Syria. The Arabs still call it Sor. 1 Kings 5:15. _Threescore and ten thousand._ If we add the...
_Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon _. .. _ to build the house._ THE CO-OPERATION OF HIRAM According to tradition, Hiram was a tributary or dependent monarch. The embassy which Hiram s...
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TYRIAN KING CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 5:1. HIRAM, KING OF TYRE, called _Hirom_ (1 Kings 5:7; 1 Kings 5:9), _Huram_ ...
EXPOSITION SOLOMON AND HIRAM—The somewhat detailed description which we have had in 1 Kings 4:1. of Solomon's pomp and power and wisdom, is followed in 1 Kings 5:1. sqq. by an account of what, in Jewi...
So Hiram the king of Tyre when he heard that Solomon was upon the throne in place of his David: for Hiram was always a great admirer of David. And Solomon sent to Hiram, and he said, You know how that...
1 Kings 9:23; 2 Chronicles 2:2...
Three thousand &c. — Whereof three thousand were set over the fifteen hundred thousand, expressed 1 Kings 5:15, each of these, over fifty of them, and the odd three hundred were set over these three t...