2 Chronicles 2:9

Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

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Related Commentaries of 2 Chronicles 2:9

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

wonderful great. Hebrew "great and wonderful". Figure of speech Hendiadys (App-6). great, yea, wonderfully great.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
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.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Even to prepare me timber in abundance. — Rather, And they shall prepare, or, let them prepare. (A use of the infinitive, to which the chronicl...
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 fi...
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 prepa...
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 R...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Even to prepare me timber in abundance ,.... Since he would want a large quantity for raftering, cieling, wainscoting, and flooring the temple: fo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build [shall be] wonderful great. Ver. 9. Wonderful great. ] Yet was it...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Preparations to Build the Temple. B. C. 1015....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See Poole on " 1 Chronicles 2:5 " .
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 messa...
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 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 nee...
The Biblical Illustrator

Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold. Huram and Solomon Learn from this intercourse-- I. That friendship in life is helpful....
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Solomon's Message to Huram
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great, literally, "great and wonderful. "
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 9:8 ; 2 Chronicles 2:5 ; 2 Chronicles 7:21

⁹ Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderfule great.

Related Commentaries of 2 Chronicles 2:9

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 2:9