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1 Kings 5:1 open_in_new
Hiram. Born of. Jewish mother (1 Kings 7:14; 2 Chronicles 2:14).
lover. ally, Hebrews always at amity with the Phoenicians. Never with Canaanites.
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1 Kings 5:3 open_in_new
Thou knowest. Compare 2 Samuel 5:11. 1Ch 14:1. 1 Chronicles 22:4.
could not. There were three reasons altogether: (1) not the time (2 Samuel 7); (2) not the opportunity (Luke 5:3); (3) not the man (1Ch 22:8. 1 Chronicles 28:3, &c).
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.
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1 Kings 5:4 open_in_new
adversary. Hebrew. satan.
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1 Kings 5:5 open_in_new
as the LORD spake. according as Jehovah spake. Compare 2 Samuel 7:12 2 Samuel 7:13. 1 Chronicles 17:11; 1 Chronicles 17:12.
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1 Kings 5:6 open_in_new
any. a man. Hebrew. 'ish. App-14.
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1 Kings 5:8 open_in_new
sent: i.e. wrote. Compare 2 Chronicles 2:11. See note on Exodus 17:14, and App-47.
fir. Or, cypress.
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1 Kings 5:9 open_in_new
bring them down. Note the illustration in the conversion of sinners. Cut down from nature's standing; down through the waters of death (Romans 6:11), before finding their place in the temple of God (Ephesians 2:20-22). Same with the stones. See note on 1 Kings 5:17.
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1 Kings 5:10 open_in_new
gave. continued to give. Compare Psalms 45:12.
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1 Kings 5:11 open_in_new
gave. Not the same as 2 Chronicles 2:10. That was for Hiram's workmen in Lebanon. This was for his royal household at Tyre.
measures. See App-51.
pure. bruised (as in. mortar), not crushed in. press.
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1 Kings 5:12 open_in_new
as. according as. Compare 1 Kings 3:12.
league =
a covenant. For breaking which Tyre was judged later. See Amos 1:9.
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1 Kings 5:13 open_in_new
levy. tribute of men for free labour, not the bond service of 1 Kings 9:21; 1 Kings 9:22. Compare 1 Kings 4:6; 2 Samuel 20:24. Foretold in 1 Samuel 8:16. David employed forced service of resident aliens (1 Chronicles 22:2. and notes on 2 Samuel 12:31).
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1 Kings 5:17 open_in_new
brought. quarried.
great stones. These stones illustrate the work of conversion in the sinner. Hewed out of nature's dark quarry (Isaiah 51:1; Isaiah 51:2), out and carved for. place in the temple of glory (Ephesians 2:20-22).
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1 Kings 5:18 open_in_new
stonesquarers. men of Gebal, or Giblites, as Ezekiel 27:9, now Jubeil, forty miles north of Sidon. Compare Psalms 83:7. Phoenician masons' marks still visible on them.
so. and.