TSK - 2 CHRONICLES 9

   1  The queen of Sheba admires the wisdom of Solomon.
 13  Solomon's revenue in gold.
 15  His targets and shields.
 17  The throne of ivory.
 20  His vessels.
 23  His presents.
 25  His chariots and horse.
 26  His tributes.
 29  His reign and death.


VERSE 1
- A.M. 3014.  B.C. 990.  And when.  See on
   * 1Ki 10:1,2-13 Mt 12:42 Lu 11:31
- Sheba.
   * Ge 10:7,28; 25:3
- fame.
   * 2Ch 1:1,12 1Ki 4:31
- questions.
   * Ps 49:4; 78:2 Pr 1:6 Mt 13:11,35
- camels.
   * Ps 72:10,15 Isa 60:6
- spices.
   * :9 Mt 2:11
- communed.
   * 1Sa 1:15 Ps 142:2 Mt 12:34


VERSE 2 
 - all.
   * Pr 13:20; 18:4 Mr 4:11,34 Joh 15:15 Jas 5 1:5
- there.
   * 1Ki 3:12; 4:29 Col 2:3 Heb 4:12


VERSE 3 
 - seen the wisdom.
   * 1Ki 10:3 Ac 11:23
- the house.
   * 2Ch 3:1-2 4:22 1Ki 6:1-7:51


VERSE 4 
 - the meat.
   * 1Ki 4:22,23 Pr 9:5 Joh 6:53-57
- the sitting.
   * 1Ki 10:5 Lu 12:37 Re 3:20
- cup-bearers.  or, butlers.
   * Ne 1:11
- ascent.
   * 2Ch 23:13 2Ki 16:18 1Ch 9:18 Eze 44:3; 46:2
- there was.
   * Ps 119:81; 143:7 So 5:8 Da 10:17 Re 1:17


VERSE 5 
 - report.  Heb. word.  See on
   * 1Ki 10:6
- acts.  or, sayings.


VERSE 6 
 - I believed.
   * Joh 20:25-29
- the one half.  See on
   * 1Ki 10:7 Ps 31:19 Zec 9:17 1Co 2:9 1Jo 3:2
- exceedest.
   * :5 1Ki 4:31,34 So 5:9-16

VERSE 7
    * De 33:9 1Ki 10:8 Ps 27:4; 84:10-12 Pr 3:3,14; 8:34; 10:21; 13:20
   * Lu 10:39-42; 11:28


VERSE 8 
 - Blessed.
   * 1Ch 29:10,20 Ps 72:18,19 2Co 9:12-15
- which delighted.
   * 2Sa 15:25,26
- See on
   * 1Ki 10:9 Ps 18:19; 22:8 Isa 42:1; 62:4
- because thy God.
   * 2Ch 2:11 De 7:8 1Ch 17:22
- to do judgment.
   * 2Sa 8:15; 23:3 1Ki 3:28 Ps 72:2; 99:4 Pr 21:3 Isa 9:7; 11:1-5
   * Isa 32:1,2 Jer 33:15,16 Heb 1:8,9


VERSE 9 
 - she gave.
   * :24 1Ki 9:14; 10:10 Ps 72:10,15
- of spices.
   * :1 Ge 43:11 Ex 30:34
- Sheba.
  This queen is called Balkis by the Arabians, who say she came
  from the city of Sheba, also called Mareb, in Yemen or Arabia
  Felix; but the Ethiopians call her Maqueda, claim her as their
  sovereign, and say that her posterity reigned there for a long
  time.  Mr. Bruce has given us the history of her and her
  descendants from Abyssinian records; and Josephus says that
  Sheba was the ancient name of the city of Mero‰, (south of
  Egypt, and sometimes comprehended in Ethiopia,) and that this
  princess came from thence.  Those who think the princess came
  from Arabia, rely chiefly on the fact that gold, silver,
  spices, and precious stones, which were the presents she made
  to Solomon, are the natural products of that country; and that
  it may well be placed at the uttermost part of the earth, as
  it borders on the southern ocean, and formerly they knew no
  land beyond it.


VERSE 10 
 - brought gold.  See on ch.
   * 2Ch 8:18 1Ki 9:27,28; 10:22
- algum trees.
   * 1Ki 10:11
- almug-trees.


VERSE 11 
 - terraces.  or, stairs.  Heb. highways.  harps.
   * 1Ki 10:12 1Ch 23:5; 25:1 Ps 92:1-3; 150:3-5 Re 5:8


VERSE 12 
 - all her desire.
   * 1Ki 10:13 Ps 20:4 Eph 3:20


VERSE 13 
 - the weight.
   * 1Ki 10:14,15 Ps 68:29; 72:10,15


VERSE 14 
 - chapmen.  or, tourists
   * Nu 14:6
- spies.
   * 1Ki 10:15
- merchants.
   * Ge 23:16; 37:28
- Arabia.  i.e., dusky; mixed; desert or sterile.
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   * :14 Isa 21:13 Jer 25:24 Eze 27:21
- governors.  or, captains.
   * 1Ki 10:15


VERSE 15 
 - two.
   * 2Ch 12:9,10
- See on
   * 1Ki 10:16,17


VERSE 16 
 - in the house.
   * 1Ki 7:2


VERSE 17 
 - See on
   * 1Ki 10:18-20 Ps 45:8 Re 20:11


VERSE 18 
 - stays.  Heb. hands.  two lions.
   * Ge 49:9,10 Nu 23:24; 24:9 Re 5:5


VERSE 19 
 - twelve lions.
   * Mt 19:28 Re 21:12


VERSE 20 
 - drinking.
   * 1Ki 10:21 Es 1:7 Da 5:2,3
- pure.  Heb. shut up.  none were of silver.  or, there was no
  silver in them.  it was.
   * :27 Isa 2:22 Jer 31:5


VERSE 21 
 - Tarshish.
  Bochart thinks this Tarshish was probably the promontory Cory,
  on the north of the island of Ceylon, which, according to him,
  was the land of Ophir.  That it was name of a place in the
  East Indies, seems probable from the articles brought thence,
  and also from the ships sent thither being built at
  Ezion-geber, on the Red Sea; though Michaelis supposes that
  the fleet coasted along the shore of Africa, doubling the Cape
  of Good Hope, and came to Tartessus, in Spain, and thence back
  again the same way; that this accounts for their three years'
  voyage out and home; and that Spain and the coasts of Africa
  furnish all the commodities which they brought back.

- See on
   * 1Ki 10:22; 22:48
- Tharshish.  ivory.  or, elephants' teeth.  peacocks.
  {Tukkeeyim} is rendered {taysin} in the Targum, [        ,] in
  the Alexandrian MS. of the LXX., and {pavos,} "peacocks," in
  the Vulgate; with which the Syriac, Arabic, and Rabbins agree.
  This derives confirmation from the fact, that the peacock is
  called in Malabaric, {Togei.}

   * Job 39:13


VERSE 22 
 - passed all the kings.
   * 2Ch 1:12 1Ki 3:12,13; 4:30,31; 10:23,24 Ps 89:27 Mt 12:42 Col 2:2,3


VERSE 23 
 - sought.
   * :6,7 1Ki 4:34 Isa 11:2,10
- God.
   * 2Ch 1:10-12
- See on
   * 1Ki 3:28 Pr 2:6 Da 1:17; 2:21-23; 5:11 Lu 21:15 1Co 1:30; 12:8
   * Eph 1:17 Jas 5 1:5,16,17; 3:17


VERSE 24 
 - every man.
   * :9 1Sa 10:27 1Ki 9:14; 10:10,25 Job 42:11

VERSE 25
    * 2Ch 1:14 De 17:16 1Ki 4:26; 10:26


VERSE 26 
 - reigned over.
   * 1Ki 4:21,24 Ps 72:8-11 Da 7:14 Re 19:16
- river.
  "That is, Euphrates."

   * Ge 15:18 Ex 23:31 Jos 13:2-7


VERSE 27 
 - the king.
   * :20; 1:15-17 1Ki 10:27-29 Job 22:24,25
- made.  Heb. gave.  the sycamore.
   * 1Ch 27:28 Ps 78:47 Isa 9:10 Am 7:14 Lu 19:4


VERSE 28 
 - brought.
    "Moses," says Bp. Warburton, "had expressly prohibited the
  multiplying of horses, (De 17:16;) by which the future king
  was forbidden to establish a body of calvary, because this
  could not be effected without sending into Egypt, with which
  people God had forbidden any communication, as this would be
  dangerous to religion.  When Solomon had violated this law,
  and multiplied horses to excess, (1 Ki 26 4:26,) it was soon
  attended with those fatal consequences that the law foretold:
  for this wisest of kings having likewise, in violation of
  another law, married Pharaoh's daughter, (the early fruits of
  this commerce,) and then, by a repetition of the same crime,
  but a transgression of another law, had espoused more strange
  women, (1 Ki 26 4:26; 1 11:1,) they first,in defiance of a fourth
  law, persuaded him to build them idol temples for their use;
  and afterwards, against a fifth law, brought him to erect
  other temples for his own."

   * :25; 1:16 1Ki 10:28 Isa 2:7,8; 31:1


VERSE 29 
 - the rest.
   * 1Ki 11:41-43
- book.  Heb. words.  Nathan.
   * 2Sa 7:1-3; 12:1,25 1Ki 1:8,10,11,22-27,32-38 1Ch 29:29
- Ahijah.
   * 1Ki 11:29; 14:2
- Iddo.
   * 2Ch 12:15; 13:22


VERSE 30 
 - Solomon.
   * 1Ki 11:42,43


VERSE 31 
 - A.M. 3029.  B.C. 975.  slept.  See on
   * 2Sa 7:12 1Ki 1:21; 2:10



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