2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 2 Solomon appointeth workmen to build the temple:
his embassage to king Huram for workmen and materials, promising to
furnish him with victuals, 2 CHRONICLES 2:1. Huram's kindness, 2
CHRONICLES 2:11. Solomon numbereth and divideth the workmen, 2
CHRONICLES 2:17,18. i.e. A royal... [ Continue Reading ]
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Which words may be commodiously understood from the nature of the
thing, and from the following words, such ellipses being frequent in
the Hebrew. Or, without any ellipsis, the sense, being here suspended,
is completed 2 CHRONICLES 2:7, so send me, &c., the 4th, 5th, and 6th
verses being inserted by... [ Continue Reading ]
TO DEDICATE IT TO HIM, i.e. to his honour and worship. FOR THE
CONTINUAL SHEW-BREAD; so called here and NUMBERS 9:7, because it was
to be there continually, by a constant succession of new bread when
the old was removed; of which see EXODUS 25:30 LEVITICUS 24:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HOUSE WHICH I BUILD IS GREAT; for though the temple strictly so
called, was but small, yet the buildings belonging to it, both above
and under ground, were large and numerous.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEAVEN OF HEAVENS CANNOT CONTAIN HIM: when I speak of building a
great house for our great God, let none be so foolish to think that I
mean to include or comprehend God within it, for he is infinite. TO
BURN SACRIFICE BEFORE HIM, i.e. to worship him there where he is
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i.e. Who was my father's chief workman. Or, _Huram Abi_, a man so
called; the prefix _lamed_ being here only a note of the accusative
case. See more on 2 CHRONICLES 4:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SON OF A WOMAN OF THE DAUGHTERS OF DAN; of which SEE POOLE ON "1
KINGS 7:14". MY LORD; so he calls David here, and Solomon in the next
verse, either out of singular respect to their greatness and true
worth; or because he was indeed tributary to them; or, at least, his
country was nourished by t... [ Continue Reading ]
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WHEREWITH DAVID HIS FATHER HAD NUMBERED THEM; for David had not only
numbered his own people, for which he smarted, 2SA 24; but afterward
he numbered the strangers, not out of vanity, but that Solomon might
have a true account of them, and employ them about his buildings, as
he saw fit. Yet Solomon... [ Continue Reading ]
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