The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Chronicles — Section 221

EXPOSITION. but our compiler is consistent with himself; CHAPTER XIV. for see eh. iii. 6, 7. Further, our ver. 12 The contents of this chapter belong to a states that tbo idols of the Philistines were period of time subsequent to the ta.king of by David's command "burned with fire," tLe fort of Zion, and find their parallel in while the Hebrew text of Samuel only statee 2 Sam. v. 11-25. But if found here in the that "David and his men removed them" same order of vlace as there, they would (O~ff:l), where the Authorized Version in- have followed nponch. ix. 9; Keil attrilmtes correctly translates " burned them." tllis difference to the desire of ulll' compiler Ver. 1.-Tho Kethiv abandons here the to represent the bringing of tbo ark to invariable analogy of Clll'oniclee, ond reads Jerusalem as David's first undertaking on Hiram for "Huram," which latter form, becoming king of the united people. Con- however, is replaced in the Keri. Beside this Hirom or Huram, the king, there wns sidering the contents of this chapter, and another Hiram or Hurnm, the same king's remembering that it stands between the chief artificer, and whom be sont to the unsuccessful attempt to bring home the ark help of Solomon (1 Kings vii. 13, 40; and the final successful bringing of it, it 2 Chron. ii. 13; iv. 11, 16). The willing would seem a far more natural thing to aid which this king lent to D11vitl ou ibis occasion, in supplying cedar timber and suppose that this suggested its present order; workmen, was" the commencement of that for compare eh. xv. 1, 2. The paraJlel is amity between the Tyrians and the Hebrews, very close. As far as to the word " ElishWI." so mutually advantageous to tho two nations, (ver. 5), there is no difference in the least the one agricultural and the other com- degreo material, excopt that the word "con- mercial" (Milman's 'History of the Jews,' cubines" is found in Samuel, and preceding i. 239). The meaning of the n11me Hiram is probably "noble," or "high- born." This the word "wives" of our ver. 3 (yet see disposition, at all events, he seems to ba,•o eh. iii. 9). The two names Elpalet and illustrated iu his generous friendship to Nogal, are also not found in Urie \"arallel, David. Solomon, and tileir people. Very en. XIV. 1-17.] THE FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. 215