2 Chronicles 2:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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, enduedf with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom. ”

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord ... that made heaven and earth - This appears to have been a formula designating the Supreme God with several of the Asiatic nations. In the Persian inscriptions Ormazd is constantly cal...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a (e) wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an hous...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Preparations for the Building of the Temple (see notes on 1 Kings 5:5-18 ). Though the general narrative in the parallel passages is the same, the Chronicler's account varies in detail sufficientl...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

heaven and earth. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26 .
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house fo...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Solomon's Negotiations with Hiram This chapter substantially reproduces 1 Kings 5 , with some differences in numbers, names, and expressions.
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(11-15) Huram’s reply. (Comp. 1 Kings 5:7-9 .)
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

SOLOMON THE chronicler's history of Solomon is constructed on the same principles as that of David, and for similar reasons. The builder of the first Temple commanded the grateful reverence of a c...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The king's devotion to the highest work of his life was, however, unhindered, and the second chapter gives us the story of how he commenced his preparations for doing that work by new commercial trea...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Huram said, moreover, blessed be the Lord God of Israel, that made heaven and earth ,.... Huram seems to have had some good notions of the divine Being, not only as the God of the people of Israel,...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house fo...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Blessed be the Lord that made heaven and earth It seems Huram was not only a friend to the Jewish nation, but a proselyte to their religion, and that he worshipped Jehovah, the God of Israel, (who...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

SOLOMON'S REQUEST FROM HIRAM (vv.1-10). As the Lord had foretold to David, He worked upon Solomon's heart to make him determine to build both a temple for the Lord and a royal house for himself...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Solomon's Treaty with Hiram. B. C. 1015. 11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in wr...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter corresponds with 1 Kings 5 . It comprises preparations for building the temple ( 2 Chronicles 2:1-2 ); Solomon’s message to Huram ( 2 Chronicles 2:3-10 ); Huram’s reply...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 2:1 . A house. The word temple among the Jews, gradually obtained from the Gentiles. The Egyptians were the first that built temples; the Greeks and the Tyrians followed, as they rose...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord. Solomon’s predestined work Solomon was born to do this work. There is no need for the rose to say, “Now I am going to be beaut...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Chronicles 2:1 In the Hebrew text this verse stands as the last of 2 Chronicles 1:1-14 . Determined . The Hebrew word is the ordinary word for "said;" as, e.g; in the expre...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Huram's Kind Answer
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 29:20 ; 1 Kings 5:7 ; 1 Peter 1:3 ; 2 Chronicles 1:10-12 ; 2 Chronicles 2:1 ; Acts 14:15 ; Acts 4:24 ; Colossians 1:16 ; Colossians 1:17 ; Genesis 1:1-2 ; Jeremiah 10:10 ; Lu...
2 Chronicles 2:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Made heaven and earth — It seems Huram was not only a friend to the Jewish nation, but a proselyte to their religion, and that he worshipped Jehovah, the God of Israel, (who was now known by that n...

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Chronicles 2:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Chronicles 2:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 2:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 2:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Chronicles 2:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 2:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes