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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...
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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 nationality,...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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_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....
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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_[1 Kings 5:30]_ לְ֠ בַד מִ שָּׂרֵ֨י הַ
נִּצָּבִ֤ים לִ שְׁלֹמֹה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל
־הַ מְּלָאכָ֔ה...
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1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1
THE TEMPLE
1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1
"And his next son, for wealth and wisdom famed, The clouded Ark of
God, till then in tents Wandering, shall in a glorious...
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BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1; 1 Kings 4:1; 1
Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1; 1 Kings 8:1;...
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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...
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_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...
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(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...
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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...
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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 c...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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[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...
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ARRANGEMENTS CONCERNING MATERIAL...
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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...
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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. Christ...
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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...
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1 Kings 5:16 three H7969 thousand H505 three H7969 hundred H3967
chiefs H8269 Solomons H8010 deputies H5324 (H8737) supervised H7287
(H8802) H4399 people H5971 labored H6213 (H8802) work H4399
three...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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_ (2 Chronicles 2:3), and by Josephus Εἵρωμος, th...
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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 Jew...
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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...
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1 Kings 9:23; 2 Chronicles 2:2...
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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...