2 Chronicles 2:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, ”

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and (c) algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy servants, (c)...
2 Chronicles 2:8 - 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 2:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

fir . cypress. algum. See note on 1 Kings 10:11 .
2 Chronicles 2:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
2 Chronicles 2:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, Sen...
2 Chronicles 2:8 - 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 2:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Fir trees. — The word bĕrôshîm is now often rendered cypresses. But Professor Robertson Smith has well pointed out that the Phoenician Ebusus (the modern Iviza) is the “isle of bĕrôshîm,” and i...
2 Chronicles 2:8 - 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 2:8 - 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 2:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
2 Chronicles 2:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon ,.... Of the two first of these, and which Hiram sent, see 1 Kings 5:10 . The algum trees are the same with the almug trees, 1...
2 Chronicles 2:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy servants, Ver. 8....
2 Chronicles 2:8 - 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 2:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Preparations to Build the Temple. B. C. 1015. 1 And Solomon determined to build a house...
2 Chronicles 2:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
2 Chronicles 2:8 - 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 2:8 - 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 2:8 - 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 2:8 - 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 2:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Solomon's Message to Huram
2 Chronicles 2:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 10:11 ; 1 Kings 5:6

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Chronicles 2:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Chronicles 2:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 2:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Chronicles 2:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Chronicles 2:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Chronicles 2:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge