1 KINGS CHAPTER 5 Hiram sendeth to congratulate Solomon; who desireth of Hiram timber to build the temple, 1 KINGS 5:1. Hiram blesseth God for Solomon; and, for food for his family, sendeth him trees, 1 KINGS 5:7. The number of labourers and workmen employed about the temple, 1 KINGS 5:13. HIRAM SEN... [ Continue Reading ]
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THOU KNOWEST, by common fame, and by particular information. COULD NOT BUILD AN HOUSE UNTO THE NAME OF THE LORD HIS GOD, i.e. either, first, For the worship and service of God, 1 KINGS 3:2. Or, secondly, For the Lord himself, as that phrase is used, DEUTERONOMY 28:58 PSALMS 20:1, PSALMS 52:9. WHICH... [ Continue Reading ]
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COMMAND THOU THAT THEY, i.e. thy servants, as appears both from the foregoing words, _command_, &c., and from the following opposition of _my servants_ And this assistance which these Gentiles gave to the building of Solomon's temple was a type of the calling of the Gentiles, and that they should be... [ Continue Reading ]
HE REJOICED GREATLY; being an ingenuous prince, a lover of excellency, and a faithful friend to David and to his house. BLESSED BE THE LORD; for though it be not probable that he was a sincere proselyte, because he did not endeavour the instruction of his people, and the extirpation of their gross i... [ Continue Reading ]
HIRAM SENT a letter, 2 CHRONICLES 2:11. CONCERNING TIMBER OF FIR; which formerly was, and still is, very useful in most buildings. Others render the Hebrew word, _pitch trees_, or _ash trees_, or _pine trees_. To others it was a particular sort of cedars, and therefore comes under the general name o... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO THE SEA; the midland sea. IN FLOATS, or _ships_, or _rafts_. It is thought the timbers were tied together in the water, as now it is usual, and so by the help of boats or ships conveyed to the appointed place, which was at no great distance. UNTO THE PLACE THAT THOU SHALT APPOINT ME; which was... [ Continue Reading ]
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TWENTY MEASURES OF PURE OIL, Heb. _twenty cors_ OF PURE OIL; but in 2 CHRONICLES 2:10, it is _twenty thousand baths of oil_; to which is there added _twenty thousand measures of barley_, and _twenty thousand baths of wine_. Either therefore, first, He speaks of several things, as was now said on 1 K... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD GAVE SOLOMON WISDOM, i.e. he increased in wisdom more and more; which is here mentioned, because he showed his wisdom in all his transactions with Hiram.... [ Continue Reading ]
Which were to be employed in the most honourable and easy parts of the work relating to the temple, in manner expressed, 1 KINGS 5:14. And these were Israelites; but those 150,000, mentioned 1 KINGS 5:15, were strangers, by comparing this with 1 KINGS 9:21,22. If it seem strange to any man that so m... [ Continue Reading ]
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Either of timber, or rather of stones; for Hiram had taken care of the timber.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 account of the work from them. But in 2 CHRONICLES 2:18, these overseers are said to be 3600. ANSW.... [ Continue Reading ]
COSTLY STONES; marble and porphyry, or other stones of great size and value. TO LAY THE FOUNDATION OF THE HOUSE; where they could not afterward be seen; and therefore that this was done, is mentioned only as a point of magnificence, except it was intended for a type or mystical signification of the... [ Continue Reading ]
THE STONE-SQUARERS, Heb. _the Gibites_; the inhabitants of Gebel, a place near Zidon, named PSALMS 83:7 EZEKIEL 27:9, famous for artificers and architects, JOSHUA 13:5. These are here mentioned apart, as distinct from the rest of Hiram's builders, as the most eminent of them.... [ Continue Reading ]