THE SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES _Chronological Notes relative to this Book_ -Year from the Creation, according to the English Bible, 2989. -Year before the Incarnation, 1015. -Year before the first Olympiad, 239. -Year before the building of Rome, according to Varro, 262. -Year of the Julian... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 1:2. _THEN SOLOMON SPAKE_] This is supposed to have taken place in the _second_ year of his reign.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 1:4. _BUT THE ARK_] The tabernacle and the brazen altar remained still at Gibeon; but David had brought away the ark out of the tabernacle, and placed it in a tent at Jerusalem; 2 Samuel 6:2; 2 Samuel 6:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 1:5. _SOUGHT UNTO IT._] Went to seek the Lord there.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 1:7. _IN THAT NIGHT_] The night following the sacrifice. On Solomon's _choice_, see the notes on 1 Kings 3:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 1:9. _LET THY PROMISE_] דברך _debarcha, thy word_; פתגמך pithgamach, Targum. It is very remarkable that when either God or man is represented as having spoken a _word_ then the noun פתגם _pithgam_ is used by the _Targumist_; but when _word_ is used personally, then he employs the... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 1:14. _HE HAD A THOUSAND AND FOUR HUNDRED CHARIOTS_] For these numbers, see the notes on 1 Kings 4:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 1:15. _MADE SILVER AND GOLD_] See on 1 Kings 10:27-11.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 1:16. _LINEN YARN_] 1 Kings 10:28, where this subject is particularly examined.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 1:17. _A HORSE FOR A HUNDRED AND FIFTY_] Suppose we take the shekel at the utmost value at which it has been rated, _three_ _shillings_; then the price of a horse was about _twenty-two pounds_ _ten shillings_. ON Solomon's multiplying horses, _Bishop Warburton_ has made some judi... [ Continue Reading ]