2 Chronicles 8:1
TWENTY. The number of Expectancy and Waiting, 2 Chronicles 21:1. Divine completeness (21) minus one (1). (App-10). Compare Genesis 31:38; Genesis 31:41.Judges 4:3; Judges 15:20; Judges 16:31; 1 Samuel 7:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWENTY. The number of Expectancy and Waiting, 2 Chronicles 21:1. Divine completeness (21) minus one (1). (App-10). Compare Genesis 31:38; Genesis 31:41.Judges 4:3; Judges 15:20; Judges 16:31; 1 Samuel 7:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
RESTORED. given. Evidently these had been previously given by Solomon as pledges or "security" (1 Kings 9:10). CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUILT. rebuilt. Compare Joshua 16:3, Jos 16:5. 1 Chronicles 7:22. GATES. double doors.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONSUMED NOT. destroyed not. MAKE TO PAY TRIBUTE. raise. levy of bondmen.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DAUGHTER OF PHARAOH. Taking it for granted that we know she was Solomon's wife. FOR HE SAID. The reason is complementary to 1 Kings 9:24. HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. THE ARK. See note on 1 Chronicles 13:3.Exodus 25:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
OFFERED. offered up. Hebrew. _'alah,_ App-43.... [ Continue Reading ]
THREE TIMES. Compare Exodus 23:14.Deuteronomy 16:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
COURSES. Compare 1 Chronicles 24:1. PORTERS. gatekeepers. Compare 1 Chronicles 9:17. THE MAN OF GOD. See App-49. GOD. Heb Elohim. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMMANDMENT: or commandments. TREASURES. treasuries.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read "from".... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE HANDS OF. Figure of speech _Pleonasm._ SHIPS. From Tyre, in the Mediterranean, to the Red Sea. To show that this was not insuperable (as some have imagined) the next clause is added. THAT HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE SEA. This is the explanation of the possibility of such voyages being possible. An... [ Continue Reading ]