AN HOUSE FOR HIS KINGDOM] The description of this, which is given at length in 1 Kings 7, is omitted by the Chronicler. 5. _Is_ GREAT] i.e. in magnificence, but not in actual dimensions—the external length and breadth being only 120 x 45 ft., less than many parish churches. It was not intended to h... [ Continue Reading ]
SOLOMON'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH HIRAM This chapter substantially reproduces 1 Kings 5, with some differences in numbers, names, and expressions.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEATEN WHEAT] probably a corruption of 'wheat for food': cp. 1 Kings 5:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF HURAM MY FATHER'S] RM 'even Huram my father': the term 'father 'being a title of honour: cp. Genesis 45:8. But the whole expression may be a proper name, 'Huram Abi'; and so in 2 Chronicles 4:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
A WOMAN.. OF DAN] see on 1 Kings 7:14, where she is termed a widow of Naphtali.... [ Continue Reading ]
JOPPA] The modern Jaffa, some 35 m. from Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE MOUNTAIN] probably the hill-country of Judah.... [ Continue Reading ]