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GIBEON - The transfer to Gibeon of the “tabernacle of the
congregation,” and the brass “altar of burnt offerings” made by
Moses, which were removed there from Nob (compare 1 Samuel 21:6, with
marginal...
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2. JEHOVAH APPEARS TO SOLOMON HIS PRAYER AND THE ANSWER
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. Affinity with Pharaoh and Pharaoh's daughter (1 Kings 3:1)_
2. Solomon loved the LORD (1 Kings 3:2)
3. Jehovah appears to Sol...
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1 KINGS 3:1 TO 1 KINGS 4:34. EARLY DAYS, REIGN, AND WISDOM OF SOLOMON.
The sources of this section are various, and the arrangement of the
narrative in the LXX should be noticed. There are (_a_) a sta...
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_to Gibeon_ The Hivite city which was assigned by Joshua to the tribe
of Benjamin (Joshua 18:21-25). It is most known in early times for the
cunning device of its inhabitants to secure a treaty with J...
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1 Kings 3:1-4. Solomon marries Pharaoh's daughter. Sacrifices still
offered on the high places. Solomon's sacrifice at Gibeon (2
Chronicles 1:3)
At the beginning of this Chapter the LXX. inserts a lo...
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TO GIBEON—FOR THAT WAS THE GREAT HIGH PLACE— Of all the high
places where the people sacrificed, Gibeon was _the great_ and
celebrated one, because the _tabernacle_ and brazen altar were there.
See 2...
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I. THE ENDOWMENT OF THIS KING 3:4-28
Solomon is popularly known as the wisest man who ever lived. This
section provides (1) an explanation of Solomon's wisdom (1 Kings
3:4-15); and (2) a demonstratio...
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_AND THE KING WENT TO GIBEON TO SACRIFICE THERE; FOR THAT WAS THE
GREAT HIGH PLACE: A THOUSAND BURNT OFFERINGS DID SOLOMON OFFER UPON
THAT ALTAR._
The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, х_ GIB`O...
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SOLOMON'S CHOICE
This chapter relates how Solomon, out of various gifts offered to him
by the Almighty, chose wisdom, and adds an illustration of the use he
made of the gift with which he was endowed...
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GIBEON] in the tribe of Benjamin (Joshua 18:25). TO SACRIFICE THERE]
in 2 Chronicles 13 it is stated that the Tabernacle of the
congregation was at Gibeon; if so, it must have been removed thither
fro...
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 3
GOD SPEAKS TO SOLOMON
V1 Solomon made an agreement with Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Solomon
married Pharaoh’s daughter. Solomon brough...
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GIBEON. — The name itself, signifying “belonging to a hill,”
indicates its position on the central plateau of Israel, in the land
of Benjamin, whence rise several round hills, on one of which the town...
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וַ יֵּ֨לֶךְ הַ מֶּ֤לֶךְ גִּבְעֹ֨נָה֙
לִ זְבֹּ
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THE BOY-KING'S WISDOM
1 Kings 3:1
"An oracle is upon the lips of a king."- Proverbs 16:10 (Hebrews).
"A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment scattereth away all
evil with his eye."- Proverbs...
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BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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THE YOUNG KING'S WISE CHOICE
1 Kings 3:1
The chapter opens doubtfully. The affinity with Pharaoh, and the two
_onlys_ of 1 Kings 3:2 are not promising. See Deuteronomy 12:13. Yet
there were hopeful f...
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The first brief paragraph in this chapter reveals at once Solomon's
strength and weakness. He was strong, for he loved the Lord and walked
in the statutes of his father David. However, there was the o...
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_Victims. These he accompanied with most fervent prayer, Wisdom vii.
7., and 2 Paralipomenon i. 9._...
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(4) And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the
great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon
that altar.
The Reader will do well to compare the parallel his...
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The books of First and Second Samuel show us the failure of the
priesthood, and, in consequence, when a state of evident shame and
dishonour overspread the face of Israel, the heart of the people
desi...
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But there is another element in the history of the king of glory, in
which he oversteps the limits of the king of Israel's legitimate
position; he allies himself with the Gentiles, and marries Pharaoh...
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AND THE KING WENT TO GIBEON TO SACRIFICE THERE,.... About four or five
miles from Jerusalem; 1 Kings 2:28;
FOR THAT [WAS] THE GREAT HIGH PLACE; not that the place itself might
be higher than others t...
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And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that [was] the
great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon
that altar.
Ver. 4. _And the king went to Gibeon._] To seek God;...
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_The king went to Gibeon_ Because the tabernacle was there, and the
great brazen altar which Moses made. For after Shiloh was destroyed,
they were carried to Nob; and the priests being there slain by...
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1 Solomon marieth Pharaohs daughter.
2 Hie places being in vse, Solomon sacrificeth at Gibeon.
5 Solomon at Gibeon, in the choice which God gaue him, preferring
wisedome, obtaineth wisedome, riches,...
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And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, in a great
inauguration festival; FOR THAT WAS THE GREAT HIGH PLACE, the most
important height in the country and still the official sanctuary. A
THOUSA...
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SOLOMON AT GIBEON...
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SOLOMON RECEIVES WISDOM FROM GOD
(vs.1-15)
However, early in Solomon's reign he slipped into the snare of making
a treaty with the king of Egypt. Israel had before escaped from the
bondage of Egypt,...
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1-4 He that loved the Lord, should, for his sake, have fixed his love
upon one of the Lord's people. Solomon was a wise man, a rich man, a
great man; yet the brightest praise of him, is that which is...
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THE GREAT HIGH PLACE; the most eminent and frequented, because there
was the tabernacle and the altar of Moses, 1 CHRONICLES 16:39, 1
CHRONICLES 21:29 2 CHRONICLES 1:3,5,6, which poss
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1 Kings 3:4 king H4428 went H3212 (H8799) Gibeon H1391 sacrifice H2076
(H8800) that H1931 great H1419 place...
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CONTENTS: Alliance of Solomon and Pharoah. Marriage with Pharoah's
daughter. Loses at Gibeon. Solomon's prayer. His wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, two women.
CONCLUSION: The wisdom of God is laid...
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1 Kings 3:1. _Solomon took Pharaoh's daughter._ It would appear from
the 45th Psalm, which the rabbins with one consent affirm, was the
nuptial ode for this marriage, that David had made arrangements...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 3:1 Although Solomon has displayed a worldly
kind of wisdom in his treatment of those who were a threat to him (1
Kings 2:6,...
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THE RULE OF WISDOM
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 3:1. PHARAOH, KING OF EGYPT—Probably Vaphres, but Winer
suggests Psusennes. An alliance with so mighty a royal house shows
that the Hebrew...
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EXPOSITION
THE BEGINNING OF SOLOMON'S REIGN.—In the preceding chapter we have
seen the establishment of Solomon's rule (verse 46) by the removal of
internal foes, _i.e; _of disaffected and rebellious...
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Now Solomon begins the gathering of wives of which it seemed had no
end.
He made an affinity with the Pharaoh of Egypt, and he took the
Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her to the city of David, until...
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1 Chronicles 16:39; 1 Chronicles 21:29; 1 Kings 8:63; 1 Kings 9:2;...