1 Kings 5 - Introduction
_HIRAM SENDS TO CONGRATULATE SOLOMON, FURNISHES TIMBER TO BUILD THE TEMPLE, AND RECEIVES FROM SOLOMON WHEAT AND OIL. SOLOMON'S WORKMEN AND OFFICERS._ _Before Christ 1012._... [ Continue Reading ]
_HIRAM SENDS TO CONGRATULATE SOLOMON, FURNISHES TIMBER TO BUILD THE TEMPLE, AND RECEIVES FROM SOLOMON WHEAT AND OIL. SOLOMON'S WORKMEN AND OFFICERS._ _Before Christ 1012._... [ Continue Reading ]
HIRAM KING OF TYRE— It was at the beginning of Solomon's reign that Hiram sent ambassadors, to condole with Solomon upon the death of his father, and to renew the league of friendship which he had with him. Josephus assures us, that in his time the letters which passed between Hiram and Solomon were... [ Continue Reading ]
TWENTY MEASURES OF PURE OIL— In the parallel place, 2 Chronicles 2:10 it is _twenty thousand baths of oil,_ which has the sanction of many of the versions, and seems the most probable reading in this place: and so in the 16th verse, instead of _three hundred,_ it is _six hundred_ in the Chronicles;... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WAS PEACE BETWEEN HIRAM AND SOLOMON, &C.— There can be no reason why any Christian prince may not make a league and peace with the Great Turk, Mogul, or the Tartar, as well as David and Solomon did with Hiram; the latter of whom renewed the same league that his father had made, according to th... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE STONE-SQUARERS— Calmet and Houbigant, after the Vulgate, understand the Hebrew here as a proper name, הגבלים _haggibliim, the Giblites:_ so it is rendered in the Margin of our Bibles. The people of _Giblos_ were celebrated for their works in stone and wood. See Ezekiel 27:9 and Psalms 83:7.... [ Continue Reading ]