1 Kings 5:1
HIRAM. Born of. Jewish mother (1 Kings 7:14; 2 Chronicles 2:14). LOVER. ally, Hebrews always at amity with the Phoenicians. Never with Canaanites.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIRAM. Born of. Jewish mother (1 Kings 7:14; 2 Chronicles 2:14). LOVER. ally, Hebrews always at amity with the Phoenicians. Never with Canaanites.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU KNOWEST. Compare 2 Samuel 5:11. 1Ch 14:1. 1 Chronicles 22:4. COULD NOT. There were three reasons altogether: (1) not the _time_ (2 Samuel 7); (2) not the _opportunity_ (Luke 5:3); (3) not the _man_ (1Ch 22:8. 1 Chronicles 28:3, &c). THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._... [ Continue Reading ]
ADVERSARY. Hebrew. _satan._... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE LORD SPAKE. according as Jehovah spake. Compare 2 Samuel 7:12 2 Samuel 7:13. 1 Chronicles 17:11; 1 Chronicles 17:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANY. a man. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
SENT: i.e. wrote. Compare 2 Chronicles 2:11. See note on Exodus 17:14, and App-47. FIR. Or, cypress.... [ Continue Reading ]
BRING THEM DOWN. Note the illustration in the conversion of sinners. Cut down from nature's standing; down through the waters of death (Romans 6:11), before finding their place in the temple of God (Ephesians 2:20). Same with the stones. See note on 1 Kings 5:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
GAVE. continued to give. Compare Psalms 45:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
GAVE. Not the same as 2 Chronicles 2:10. That was for Hiram's _workmen_ in Lebanon. This was for his royal household at Tyre. MEASURES. See App-51. PURE. bruised (as in. mortar), not crushed in. press.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as. Compare 1 Kings 3:12. LEAGUE = A covenant. For breaking which Tyre was judged later. See Amos 1:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
LEVY. tribute of men for free labour, not the bond service of 1 Kings 9:21; 1 Kings 9:22. Compare 1 Kings 4:6; 2 Samuel 20:24. Foretold in 1 Samuel 8:16. David employed forced service of resident aliens (1 Chronicles 22:2. and notes on 2 Samuel 12:31).... [ Continue Reading ]
BROUGHT. quarried. GREAT STONES. These stones illustrate the work of conversion in the sinner. Hewed out of nature's dark quarry (Isaiah 51:1; Isaiah 51:2), out and carved for. place in the temple of glory (Ephesians 2:20).... [ Continue Reading ]
STONESQUARERS. men of Gebal, or Giblites, as Ezekiel 27:9, now Jubeil, forty miles north of Sidon. Compare Psalms 83:7. Phoenician masons' marks still visible on them. SO. and.... [ Continue Reading ]