1 Kings 4:6; 1 Kings 9:15
A levy out of all Israel - This was, apparently, the first time that the Israelites had been called upon to perform forced labor, though it had b...
Solomon's Alliance with Hiram. Preparation for the Temple. This chapter has a few Deuteronomic additions ( 1 Kings 5:3-5 and 1 Kings 5:12 ). In...
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...
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. The levy was thirty thousand men - We find from the following...
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel, х mac (...
Solomon's Preparations for building the Temple 1. Hiram] see 2 Samuel 5 ; 1 Chronicles 14:1 . It has been questioned whether this Hiram, who was...
Thirty thousand men ] These were probably taken from native Israelites (cp. the prediction in 1 Samuel 8:11-18 ); whereas the 150,000 labourers men...
Levy out of all Israel. — This, though far from being onerous, appears to have been at this time exceptional. For in 1 Kings 9:22 we read that “o...
1 Kings 6:1-38 ; 1 Kings 7:1-51 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1-18 ; 1 Kings 6:1-38 ; 1 Kings 7:1-51 "And his next son, for wealth and wisdom fam...
Breaking Three Commandments 1 Kings 21:1-29 ; 1 Kings 1:1-53 ; 1 Kings 2:1-46 ; 1 Kings 3:1-28 ; 1 Kings 4:1-34 ; 1 Kings 5:1-18 ; 1 Kings...
Preparations for the Great Task 1 Kings 5:7-18 It was good for Hiram and his Tyrians to be associated with the servants of Solomon. Together th...
Solomon turned his attention to building the Temple immediately after he had set his kingdom in order. The first movement in this direction was the t...
(10) В¶ So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire. (11) And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat fo...
And King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel ,.... Not of money, but of men, as follows: and the levy was thirty thousand men ; for what purpo...
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. Ver. 13. And king Solomon raised a levy. ] Heb., A tribute...
Solomon raised a levy Which were to be employed in the most honourable and easy parts of the work relating to the temple, in the manner expressed...
PREPARATIONS FOR THE TEMPLE (vs.1-18) God had told David that Solomon would build a house for Him ( 2 Samuel 7:12-13 ), and David therefore prep...
10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire. 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of whe...
Which were to be employed in the most honourable and easy parts of the work relating to the temple, in manner expressed, 1 Kings 5:14 . And these...
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TYRIAN KING CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 1 Kings 5:1 . Hiram, king of Tyre , called Hirom ( 1 Kings 5:7 ; 1 Kings...
1 Kings 5:1 . Tyre, situate on a strong island, was anciently called Zor or Zur, Thevenot supposes from Syria. The Arabs still call it Sor. 1 Ki...
Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon . .. to build the house. The co-operation of Hiram According to tradition, Hiram was a tri...
EXPOSITION SOLOMON AND HIRAM —The somewhat detailed description which we have had in 1 Kings 4:1-11 . of Solomon's pomp and power and wisd...
Arrangements Concerning Material
And King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel, he drafted a number of Israelites, members of the nation, for this work; and the levy was thirty t...
The levy — Which were to be employed in the most honourable and easy parts of the work relating to the temple; and these were Israelites; but those...
13 And king Solomon raised a levyg out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.