Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
2 Chronicles 2:16
Verse 2 Chronicles 2:16. In floats by sea to Joppa] 1 Kings 5:9, and on the parallel places, for other matters contained in this chapter.
Verse 2 Chronicles 2:16. In floats by sea to Joppa] 1 Kings 5:9, and on the parallel places, for other matters contained in this chapter.
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...
FLOATS. rafts....
_Joppa_ Hebrew, _Japho_, modern _Jaffa_(_Yâfâ_)....
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 WE WILL CUT WOOD OUT OF LEBANON, AS MUCH AS THOU SHALT NEED: AND WE WILL BRING IT TO THEE IN FLOATS BY SEA TO JOPPA; AND THOU SHALT CARRY IT UP TO JERUSALEM._ We will cut wood out of Lebanon ......
SOLOMON'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH HIRAM This chapter substantially reproduces 1 Kings 5, with some differences in numbers, names, and expressions....
JOPPA] The modern Jaffa, some 35 m. from Jerusalem....
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 WE WILL CUT WOOD. — The _we_ is emphatic, _and we, on our part,_ the pronoun being expressed in the Hebrew. WOOD (= “timber,” 2 Chronicles 2:8; 2 Chronicles 2:14). — Properly _trees._ AS MUCH AS...
_[2 Chronicles 2:15]_ וַ֠ אֲנַחְנוּ נִכְרֹ֨ת עֵצִ֤ים מִן
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...
CHAPTER II. _ Floats. So the Septuagint well express the Hebrew raphsodoth, which seems to be borrowed from the Greek Rapsodia, which denotes a collection of verses (Calmet) and was applied to Homer'...
Some have thought that Hiram was one of that class of people, who were Proselytes to the Jewish religion. There were same who were permitted to worship in the gates, or outer courts of Israel. But I d...
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...
AND WE WILL CUT WOOD OUT OF LEBANON, AS MUCH AS THOU SHALL NEED,.... Both cedar and fir, 1 Kings 5:8, AND WE WILL BRING IT TO THEE IN FLOATS BY SEA TO JOPPA; a port in the Mediterranean sea, the same...
And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem. Ver. 16. _And we will cut wood._] See...
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...
Huram's Kind Answer...
and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need; and we will bring it to thee in floats, huge rafts, BY SEA TO JOPPA, along the shores of the Mediterranean; AND THOU SHALT CARRY IT UP...
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...
AS MUCH AS THOU SHALT NEED: _ Heb._ according to all thy need JOPPA: _ Heb._ Japho...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Chronicles 2:16 cut H3772 (H8799) wood H6086 Lebanon H3844 need H6878 bring H935 (H8686) rafts H7513 sea
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 2:11 In his reply to Solomon, Hiram, though a Gentile, acknowledges Yahweh as Creator. ⇐...
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 5:8; 1 Kings 5:9; Acts 10:32; Acts 9:36; Ezra 3:7;...