2 Chronicles 9 - Introduction
_THE QUEEN OF SHEBA ADMIRES THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON. HIS GREAT GLORY. HE REIGNS FORTY YEARS, AND IS SUCCEEDED BY HIS SON REHOBOAM._ _Before Christ 991._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE QUEEN OF SHEBA ADMIRES THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON. HIS GREAT GLORY. HE REIGNS FORTY YEARS, AND IS SUCCEEDED BY HIS SON REHOBOAM._ _Before Christ 991._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HIS ASCENT, &C.— _And his offerings which he offered in the house of the Lord;_ as it should also be rendered 1 Kings 10:5. Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SHIPS OF TARSHISH— That this was some place in the East Indies, appears, as Bochart thinks, from the commodities, _elephants' teeth, apes,_ and _peacocks,_ brought from thence; and because the ships sent thither were built at Ezion-geber, on the Red Sea. He is of opinion, that this Tarshish was... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THE REST OF THE ACTS OF SOLOMON, &C.— According to Abarbanel there were two books of the _acts of Solomon:_ one containing an account of the beginning of his reign, written by Nathan the prophet; and the other an account of what passed in the latter part of his life, written by Ahijah the Shilon... [ Continue Reading ]