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The strangers are the non-Israelite population of the holy land, the
descendants (chiefly) of those Canaanites whom the children of Israel
did not drive out. The reimposition of the bond-service impos...
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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 ...
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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...
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THE STRANGERS. See note on 2 Samuel 12:31, and compare 1 Chronicles
22:2....
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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...
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_AND SOLOMON NUMBERED ALL THE STRANGERS THAT WERE IN THE LAND OF
ISRAEL, AFTER THE NUMBERING WHEREWITH DAVID HIS FATHER HAD NUMBERED
THEM; AND THEY WERE FOUND AN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND AND THREE
T...
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SOLOMON'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH HIRAM
This chapter substantially reproduces 1 Kings 5, with some differences
in numbers, names, and expressions....
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THE STRANGERS] Solomon in imposing forced labour upon his subjects did
not, like his father, confine it to those who were of foreign origin,
but extended it to native Israelites: 1 Kings 5:18....
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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
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ALL THE STRANGERS. — The indigenous Canaanite population. (Comp. the
use of the term in Genesis 23:4; Exodus 22:21; Leviticus 17:8.)
AFTER THE NUMBERING. — The word _sĕphâr,_ “reckoning,”
“census,” oc...
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Solomon’s levy of Canaanite labourers. (A return to the subject of 2
Chronicles 2:2.)...
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_[2 Chronicles 2:16]_ וַ יִּסְפֹּ֣ר שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה
כָּל ־הָ...
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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...
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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...
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_Had made, at the commencement of Solomon's reign, when David put such
immense treasures into his hands. The second list was taken when the
temple was begun. The proselytes were the remnants of the na...
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We may in some measure, form some faint idea of the wonderful
structure of Solomon's temple, which was finished in seven years, from
the number of hands employed. But what is this to the grand thought...
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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...
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AND SOLOMON NUMBERED ALL THE STRANGERS THAT WERE IN THE LAND OF
ISRAEL,.... Which, according to Kimchi, were the remains of the
Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites, see 2 Chronicles 8:8,
yet...
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And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the land of
Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered
them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three...
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_Solomon numbered all the strangers_ For David had not only numbered
his own people, but afterward the strangers, that Solomon might have a
true account of them, and employ them about his buildings. Y...
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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...
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Huram's Kind Answer...
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And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of
Israel, the members and descendants of heathen nations in the midst of
Israel, AFTER THE NUMBERING WHEREWITH DAVID, HIS FATHER, HAD NUMB...
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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...
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THE STRANGERS:
_ Heb._ the men the strangers...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of
Israel._
NATURALISATION OF FOREIGNERS
I. A good government will tend to make a country attractive to
foreigners.
II. Foreigners thus...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 22:2; 1 Kings 5:13; 1 Kings 9:20; 1 Kings 9:21;...
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The strangers — For David had not only numbered his own people, but
afterward the strangers, that Solomon might have a true account of
them, and employ them about his buildings. Yet Solomon numbered t...