2 Chronicles 8:1-18
SOLOMON'S BUILDINGS. HIS TRADE WITH OPHIR This chapter reproduces the substance of 1 Kings 9:10; 1 Kings 9:28 but describes some additional buildings.... [ Continue Reading ]
SOLOMON'S BUILDINGS. HIS TRADE WITH OPHIR This chapter reproduces the substance of 1 Kings 9:10; 1 Kings 9:28 but describes some additional buildings.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAD RESTORED] If the reference is to the cities which Solomon gave to Hiram, it seems best to assume that they had been merely pledged as security for money which Solomon borrowed and afterwards repaid: 1 Kings 9:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAMATH-ZOBAH] Perhaps a Hamath in Zobah (a country E. of the Sea of G-alilee, in the region of the modern Haurân).... [ Continue Reading ]
TADMOR] the later PALMYRA, a city 150 m. NE. of Damascus in the Syrian desert.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEM DID SOLOMON, etc.] RV 'of them did Solomon raise a levy _of bondservants_.'... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER A CERTAIN rate, etc.] RV 'as the duty of every day required': cp. 2 Chronicles 8:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO THE DAY] LXX has 'from the day.'... [ Continue Reading ]
In 1 Kings 9:26 it is stated that Solomon 'made' a navy of ships at Eziongeber, and that Hiram sent him skilled mariners.... [ Continue Reading ]