2:4, or _ 8.00 ww ea qua ob po ength. God within it, for he is infinite. where he is graciouſly preſent. : Send me now therefore a man, cunning to work
in gold and in filver, and in braſs, and in iron, and in
Heb. # purple, arid crimſon, and blue, and thar can $kill T to ave orave With the cunning men that are with me in Judah 99g. and in Jeruſalem, whom David my father did provide. Or, al- $8 Sznd me alſo cedar-trees, fir-trees, and || algum- #$174- trees our of Lebanon : ( for I know that thy ſervants 25% can $kill to cut timber in Lebanon and behold, my
ſervants, ſþa# be with thy ſervants,
9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance : for the kouſe which I am about to build, ſha!l be F wonderfully
great b,
h See the Notes on wv. 5- 10 And behold,I will give to thy ſervants, the hew-
ers that cut timber,twenty thouſand meaſures of bearen wheat, and twenty thouſand meaſures of barley, and ewenty thouſand barhs of wine, and twenty thoufand baths of oyl.
11 Then Huram the king of Tyre anſwered in wri- ting, which he ſent to Solomon, Becauſe the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.
12 Huram ſaid moreover, Bleſſed be the LORD God of Iſrael that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wiſe ſon, ft endued with prudence and underſtanding,that might build an houſe for the LORD, and an houlc for his ki:gdom.
13 And now I have ſent a cunning man ( endued
wich underſtanding ) of Huram my fathers z ; i ire. Who was my Fathers chief Work-man. Or, Huram 46:, a Man ſo called ; the Prefix Lamed being here only a Norte uv the Accuſative Caſe. Sce more on chap: 4-16. | 14 The fon of a woman of the daughters of Dan &, and his father was a man of Tyre, skiiful to work in pold and in filver, in braſs, in iron, in ſtone and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linnen and in crimſon ; alſo to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which ſhall be pur to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord / David thy father. EEE k Of which ſee the Notes on 1 King: 7.4." 1 So he call David here, and Solomon in the next Verſe, either out of ſingular reſpet ro their Greatneſs and true Worth : or becauſe he was indeed Trivutary to them : or, at leaſt, his Country was nouriſhed by their Country, as it was afterwards, AF. 12: 20. 15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the ' oil, and the wine which my lord hath ſpoken of, let
£9-*”” him ſend unto his ſervants:
Heb. preat and wonderful,
+ Heb. knowing prudence £1 nag
ſanding,
ding t0 al - 16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much need. as thou ſhalt need, and we will bring it to thee 1n Tok fiotes by ſea to Joppa, | and thou ſhale carry it up to
{ Fine. Jeruſalem,
5:13z& 127 * And Solomon numbred all © the ſtrangers that
9: 20. were in the land of Ifracl, after the numbring, where-
THE the wich David his father had numbred them ; and they
en ths Were found an hundred and fifty thouſand, and three 23, thouſand and fix bundred.
ferangers. ; m For David had nor only numbered his own People,for which he ſmarted, 2 Samuel 24. bur afcerward he numbred the Strangers,
them, and employ them abour his Buildings, as he ſaw fir. Yet Solomon thought fit to number them again, becauſe Death might have made a conſiderable Alteration among them ſince David's numbrirg of them ; and ir behoved him to have an exa&t Account
of them. 18 And he ſet * threeſcore and ten thouſand of chem
jo be bearers of burdens, and fourfcore thouſand ro be hewers in the mountains, and three thouſand and fix * hundred over-ſeers to fer the people a work. CH
A P. I. The place and time of building the Temple. The meaſure and ornaments
# As itis yerle 2-
TSF ONICLIESC
the LORD appeared unto David # his father,
; underſtood by the Spirit of God. . Threſhing-floor formerly ftvod,
ſecond month 4, in the fourth year of his reign.
1 K:ngs: 6.
not out of Vanity, but that Solomon might have a true Account of
| Chap, III Hen * Solomon began to buiid the houſe of t ;
: he LORD at Jeruſalem in mount Moriah, [| where . + op . 1 &C ; in the .Or which place that David had prepared b in the threſhing floor = fn c of *|| Ornan the Jebuſire. David his a Which Place the Lord had Conſecrated by his gracious A J ather. pearance there, 1 Chron. 21: 26, Or, which was ſhewed unto Davis ' 1Chr:27, to wit, to be the place where rhe Temple ſhould be builr ; which 19 C224, God pointed out to him.part'y by his Appearance.and princi I1y Or, aray. by his Spirit Suggeſting this to David at that time. 6 Py Ty 'y 1ah,2Yam. down the Buildings which were upon it, or near it, by Ievelline 24:18, the Ground, and poſſibly by marking ir our for rh, Temple a. Courts, the Dimenſions whereof he very particularly and exaQly c 4. e. In the place where thir
2 And he began ro build in the ſecond day of the
« Of this Verſe,and the reſt of this Chapter, ſee my Notes on
3 Now theſe are the things * wherein Solomon was *iKin:6:,. T inſtructed e for the building of the houſe of God. The t Heb. length by cubics after the firft meaſure f was threeſcore Pun. — _ the breadth twenty cubits.
e Partly by his Father David,and artly by the Spirit 0
which injpired and guided him in ho ads Work. Or who _
Solomons Founaations, the Hebrew verb being pur for the noun bh "
is elſewhere. The Senfe 1S, Theſe were the Meaſures of the ous w_
dations, upon which he intended to build the Temple. f ;.e 5g cording to the Meaſure of the firſt and ancient Cubir. By whi h
It is evident that there were Cubits of different ſorts and 1iz "7 -
which allo appears from Ezek: 40: 5: and 43: 13, Pu: how big thoſ?
Cubits were, and how much Jarger than the Common Cubitrs.a 1 whether this was was che Cabit uſed by Aofes in the buifding of s Tabernacle,which teems moſt probable,or ſome other & yer lar -
Cubir, is nor agreed among Learned Men, and cannot bw be
exattly known, nor is it of any great momentr for us ro know .
, And the * porch that was in-the front »
= : the h | :
the length of :t Was according to the wad A of "uſe," 1 King
— ewenty cubits, and the height was an hundred ©
and twe - id it Within wi
_ ntyg : and he overlaid it within with pure
& This being a kind of Turret to the Buildi
of it here omitted 1s expreſſed to be tn <—rp0 fe
5 And the greater houſe þ he ceiled with fir-tree.
which he overlaid with + fine gold, and ſet thereon ;
palm-trees and chains, f _ 008»