Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
1 Kings 3:24
And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. This was done with deliberation, in order to study the effect of every word upon the women.
And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. This was done with deliberation, in order to study the effect of every word upon the women.
2. JEHOVAH APPEARS TO SOLOMON HIS PRAYER AND THE ANSWER CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Affinity with Pharaoh and Pharaoh's daughter (1 Kings 3:1)_ 2. Solomon loved the LORD (1 Kings 3:2) 3. Jehovah appears to Sol...
1 KINGS 3:1 TO 1 KINGS 4:34. EARLY DAYS, REIGN, AND WISDOM OF SOLOMON. The sources of this section are various, and the arrangement of the narrative in the LXX should be noticed. There are (_a_) a sta...
_Bring me a sword_ As the verb is not the same as that which in the next clause is rendered -brought", it may be well to use different English. Read - FETCH me a sword....
THEN CAME THERE TWO WOMEN, &C.— See Judges 2:1 respecting the word זנות _zonoth_ rendered _harlots._ Solomon knew at once, that the only sign whereby to discover the true mother, would be her affectio...
B. THE DEMONSTRATION OF HIS Wisdom 3:16-28 TRANSLATION (16) Then two women, harlots, came unto the king, and stood before him. (17) And the one woman said, O my lord the king, I and this woman were s...
SOLOMON'S CHOICE This chapter relates how Solomon, out of various gifts offered to him by the Almighty, chose wisdom, and adds an illustration of the use he made of the gift with which he was endowed...
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 3 GOD SPEAKS TO SOLOMON V1 Solomon made an agreement with Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Solomon married Pharaoh’s daughter. Solomon brough...
וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר הַ מֶּ֖לֶךְ קְח֣וּ לִי ־חָ֑רֶב
THE BOY-KING'S WISDOM 1 Kings 3:1 "An oracle is upon the lips of a king."- Proverbs 16:10 (Hebrews). "A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eye."- Proverbs...
A DISCERNING JUDGMENT 1 Kings 3:16 The incident gave convincing proof of the gift of wisdom. This is the most esteemed endowment of an Eastern potentate, who is called upon to arbitrate in cases that...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
The first brief paragraph in this chapter reveals at once Solomon's strength and weakness. He was strong, for he loved the Lord and walked in the statutes of his father David. However, there was the o...
And the king said, (m) Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. (m) Unless God gives judges understanding, the impudency of the trespasser will overthrow the just cause of the inno...
(16) В¶ Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. (17) And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child w...
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...
But there is another element in the history of the king of glory, in which he oversteps the limits of the king of Israel's legitimate position; he allies himself with the Gentiles, and marries Pharaoh...
AND THE KING SAID, BRING ME A SWORD,.... The design of which might not at first appear to the court, and it might be thought strange, and greatly wondered at: what should be the meaning of it: AND TH...
And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. Ver. 24. _Bring me a sword._] For what purpose? thought the standers by; wondering and perhaps laughing within themselve...
1 Solomon marieth Pharaohs daughter. 2 Hie places being in vse, Solomon sacrificeth at Gibeon. 5 Solomon at Gibeon, in the choice which God gaue him, preferring wisedome, obtaineth wisedome, riches,...
SOLOMON RECEIVES WISDOM FROM GOD (vs.1-15) However, early in Solomon's reign he slipped into the snare of making a treaty with the king of Egypt. Israel had before escaped from the bondage of Egypt,...
16-28 An instance of Solomon's wisdom is given. Notice the difficulty of the case. To find out the true mother, he could not try which the child loved best, and therefore tried which loved the child...
No text from Poole on this verse....
1 Kings 3:24 king H4428 said H559 (H8799) Bring H3947 (H8798) sword H2719 brought H935 (H8686) sword...
CONTENTS: Alliance of Solomon and Pharoah. Marriage with Pharoah's daughter. Loses at Gibeon. Solomon's prayer. His wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, two women. CONCLUSION: The wisdom of God is laid...
1 Kings 3:1. _Solomon took Pharaoh's daughter._ It would appear from the 45th Psalm, which the rabbins with one consent affirm, was the nuptial ode for this marriage, that David had made arrangements...
_Then came there two women._ THE TRUE MOTHER I. That sin produces suffering. The two women who came for judgment to Solomon were harlots; and the offsprings of their impurity were the means by which...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 3:1 Although Solomon has displayed a worldly kind of wisdom in his treatment of those who were a threat to him (1 Kings 2:6,...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 3:16. HARLOTS—The Rabbins derive זנוֹת from זוּן, to feed, nourish; and the Targumist translates the word here, and in Joshua 2:1, by פונדקן, pundekon, _hoste...
EXPOSITION IN this section we see how remarkably the gracious promise of Gibeon (1 Kings 3:12) was fulfilled. The "understanding to discern judgment" has been richly bestowed. And this, no doubt, is t...
Now Solomon begins the gathering of wives of which it seemed had no end. He made an affinity with the Pharaoh of Egypt, and he took the Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her to the city of David, until...