2 Chronicles 2:1
CONTENTS This Chapter represents Solomon as beginning the work of the temple. He numbers the men for the service: sends to Huram for materials; Hiram's kind answer.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS This Chapter represents Solomon as beginning the work of the temple. He numbers the men for the service: sends to Huram for materials; Hiram's kind answer.... [ Continue Reading ]
The account here given, is so very similar to what we read 1 Kings 5:1 that once for all I refer the Reader to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
The message here recorded, which Solomon sent to Hiram, is much more particularly related than the parallel one in the book of the Kings. I beg the Reader to mark this. There is very great beauty, as well as piety, in that part of his address, in which he endeavors to impress upon the mind of Hiram... [ Continue Reading ]
Some have thought that Hiram was one of that class of people, who were Proselytes to the Jewish religion. There were same who were permitted to worship in the gates, or outer courts of Israel. But I do not think from his letter, in ascribing blessedness to Solomon's God for having set him on the thr... [ Continue Reading ]
We may in some measure, form some faint idea of the wonderful structure of Solomon's temple, which was finished in seven years, from the number of hands employed. But what is this to the grand thought of the temple of Jesus' body! - Here, again, we find the great multitude of laborers were strangers... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS IN the view here given of Solomon's temple, the workmen, and the materials taken and gathered from afar, I would contemplate how Solomon, my God and King, hath gathered the workmen and materials for his Temple, from all the varieties of the earth. When the Lord gave the word, great was t... [ Continue Reading ]