c Or, 300 ſhekels, as it is expreſſed, 2 Chron. g. 16.
18 4 Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it 4 with the beſt gold.
a Not wholly, but in part, here and there, which made it more
beautifulto the eye. Probably the main ſubſtance of it was Ivory, bur ſome cavities were left init which were filled with Gold.
19 The throne had ſix ſteps, and the top of the throne was round Þ behind e : and there were f ſtays on
either fide on the place of the ſeat, and two lions f ;;, Lander | itood belide the ſtays. |
; part there= | e Made like the half of a Circle. f Theſe and the following of.
Lions ſeem added, to expreſs eirher the Tribe from which Solomon + Heb. ſprung, compared to a Lion, Gen. 49. 9. or rather, that Majeſty hands. and Power wherewith a Prince is adorned and armed, which his Subjects cannot reſiſt ; or. the Duty of a Prince in the execution of Judgment, which ought to be done with great Courage and Magnanimity.
20 Arid twelve lions ſtood there on the one ſide,
and on the other upon fix ſteps : there was not F the + Heb.ſo like made in any kingdom.
21 4 And all king Solomons drinking-veſſels were of gold, and all the veitels of the houſe of the foreſt of
Lebanon were of pure gold, || none were of ſilver ; it was | Jn nothing accounted of g in the days of Solomon. , was jo fol
g Compararively, Such Hyperbolical expreſſions being frequent wer mthen both in Scriprure, and other Authors.
22 For the king hadat Sea a navy of Tarſhiſhh, with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy
ot Tarihiſh, bringing gold and filver, || ivory, and apes, 1 Or and || peacocks, ,
| . | elephants. þ tither. firſt, The Ships of the Sea, which may ſeem to be zeerh.
cailed Tarſbiſh. as Pſal. 48. 7. 1/2. 60. 9. from an eminent-part of j| Or, .he Sea near Judes, ſo called, Or rather, the Ships that weat to parrors. Tarſþ ſb. For Tarſbiſh was the name of a certain place upon the Sea, -amous for irs Trathck with Merchants, asit is maniteſt from 1/a. 23. 6, 10. and 66. 19- Jer. 10. 9. Exzek. 27. 12. andit was a place very remote from Judea, as appears from the 3 Years uſually ſpent in that Voyage: But whether it was Spain, where in thole r:imes there was abundance of Gold and Silver, as Strabo and others affirm . or, {ome place 11 the nates, it is needleſs to determine. ;
22 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches, and for wiſdom.
24 \ And all che earth 5 + ſought to Solomon, to _ hear his wiſdom which Cod had pur in his bearr. + Heb?
; i.e. All the Kings ofthe Earth, ( as it is expreſſed 2 Chron. gt 23- ) ſought the
ro wir, of thoſe parts of the Earth ; which Synecdoche is very fre. faceof Sect quent-
25 And they brought every man his preſent, veſlels , 6, of ſilver, and veſlelsof gold, and garments, and armour, :hing of # and ſpices, horſes and mules, + a rate year by year. Jear i its
26 © * And Solomon gathered together chariots, J*4”> Exo- and horſemen & : and he had a thouſand and four :%.#
7% 23
- +. , 2Chro: 1; hundred Chariots 7, * and twelve chouſand horſemen, 14; $9; 2c: ; H ; whom
hap. XI. a 4 whom he beſtowed in the cities for chariots, and with
l the king at Jeruſalem.
q & Like a wiſe Prince, in deep peace providing for War. | See | the Notes on 1 Kings 4-26.
| + Heb ' 27. And the king + made filver to be in Jeruſalem as | " Rones,; and cedars made he #9 be as the ſycomore-treesm {&IVEes 9 3
| that are in the vale for abundance.
| | m Which there were vile and common. See 1/a: 9: 16.
[*2 Chron: 28 © * + And Solomon had horſes » brought out of | 7. 16. & Epypt, and linen yarn »: the kings merchants received
2 Heb the liner yarn at a price 0.
7 obs » The two chiefCommodities of Zgyp?t. See Prov.7. 16. Cant. 1. | going forth 9. Iſa. 3. 23, Exek. 27. 7. 0 Solomon received them from Pharaoh ll of the horſes 3 3 certain Price agreed between them, and gave this priviledge to | hich was £2S Merchants, for a Tribute to be paid to him our of it.
Solomon's, 29 And a chariot p, 'came up, and went out of | Egypt for ſix hundred ſhekels of ſilver, and an horſe for an-hundred and fifty : and fo for all the kings of the | Hittites 9, and for the king of Syria, did they bring |+ Heb. by them out + by their means.
[their hand. þp This is not be underſtood of the Chariots and Horſes them- | ſelves, ( for then all Horſes had been ſer at an equal price, which is | moſt abſurd ) but by a Metonymy, for the Lading of Chariots and Horſes, which conſiſting of fine Linen and Silk, &c. . were of great value ; and the King's Cuſtom, together with the Charges of the Journey, amounted to theſe ſums» q A people dwelling princi- pally in the Northern and Eaſtern parts of Canaan, Fſ: 1: 4: whom the Iſraelites, contrary to their Duty, ſpared, and tuffered to live among them, Juag. 3. 5. who afterwards, it ſeems, xrew numerous and potenr, and, it may be, they ſentout Colonies ( after the man- ner of the Ancient Times ) into ſome parts of Syria and Arabia ; and poſſibly, theſe Kings of the Hittites may be ſome of thoſe kings of
Arabia, 1 Kings 10, 15. | s C H A P. X 8 Solomon's Wites and Concubines which in his old Age ſeduce him to Idolatry, T, 8. God threatneth him, 9, - 13, Hu Adverſaries are Hadad, who flieth into Egypt, and ts entertained there, 14,— —22. Rezon who reigned in Damaſcus, 23 — 25. Jeroboam to whom Ahijah foretelleth that he fhall be king : Solomon ſabeth his life, 26, 40. . His afts, reign and death. Rehoboam ſucceedeth him, 41 umm;
UT * king Solomon loved 4 * many ftrange women b ( || together with the daughter of Pharaoh : ) women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zido- nians, avd Hittites : s To wit, Inordinately and Luſtfully. 6 He ſinned againſt God's —_— Law, both in their number, Det. 17. 17. and in their qua- ity. | . 2 Ofthe nations concerning which the LO R D faid unto the children of Iſrael, * Ye ſhall not goin to them ce, neither ſhall they come in unto you ; for ſurely they will turn away your heart after their gods & : Solo- mon clave unto theſe in love. ci.e. M them. See onGenr. 6. 4- d Poflibly Solomcn might think himſelf roo Wiſe to be drawn to Idolatry by his Wives, and thereforeto be unconcerned in the reaſon of the Law ; and conle- quently free in ſome meaſure from the Obligation of the Law ; and 1o, like our firſt Parents, truſting his own Fancy more than God's Word, he fell dreadfully. : And he had ſeven
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