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2 CHRONICLES 8
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1 Solomon's buildings.
7 The Canaanites which were left, Solomon makes tributaries,
but the Israelites rulers.
11 Pharaoh's daughter removes to her house.
12 Solomon's yearly solemn sacrifices.
14 He appoints the priests and Levites to their places.
17 The navy fetches gold from Ophir.
VERSE 1
- at the end. See on
* 1Ki 9:10
VERSE 2
- the cities.
* 1Ki 9:11-18
VERSE 3
- Hamath-zobah.
* Nu 13:21; 34:8 2Sa 8:3 1Ki 11:23-25 1Ch 18:3
VERSE 4
- he built.
* 1Ki 9:17-19
- Tadmor.
Tadmor, the Palmyra of the Greeks, as we learn from Josephus,
a celebrated city of Syria, situated in an oasis, or fertile
spot of land, surrounded on all sides by a vast sandy desert,
like an island in the midst of the ocean; according to Pliny,
337 miles from Seleucia and Tigrim, 203 from the nearest part
of the Mediterranean, and 176 from Damascus; according to
Josephus, one day's journey west of the Euphrates, and six
from Babylon; and according to Ptolemy, in lat. 34ø north, or
that of Tripoli, and about 4ø more easterly; and it is
described by Mr. Wood as "situated under a barren ridge of
hills to the west, and open on the other sides to the desert:"
"about six days' journey from Aleppo, and as much from
Damascus, and about twenty leagues west of the Euphrates."
Palmyra attained the height of its splendor when the royal
city of Zenobia was conquered by the emperor Aurelian; became
a Roman colony after the victories of Trajan; and was probably
reduced to its present miserable state in the wars of the
Saracens. Its magnificent ruins, however, scattered over an
extent of several miles, sufficiently attest its former
splendor and riches.
VERSE 5
- Beth-horon.
* Jos 16:3,5 1Ch 7:24
VERSE 6
- Baalath.
* Jos 19:44 1Ki 9:18
- the store cities.
* :4; 17:12 1Ki 9:19
- chariot cities.
* 2Ch 1:14 1Ki 10:26
- all that Solomon desired to build. Heb. all the desire of
Solomon which he desired to build.
* 1Ki 9:19 Ec 2:4,10-26
- and in Lebanon.
* 1Ki 7:2 So 4:8
VERSE 7
- As for all.
* 1Ki 9:20-22
- the Hittites.
* Ge 15:19-21 De 7:1
VERSE 8
- whom the children.
* Jud 1:21-36 Ps 106:34
- to pay.
* 2Ch 2:17,18 Jos 16:10; 17:13 1Ki 5:13,14
VERSE 9
- But of the.
* Ex 19:5,6 Le 25:39-46 Ga 4:26,31
- they were men.
* 1Sa 8:11,12
VERSE 10
- two hundred.
* 2Ch 2:18 1Ki 5:16; 9:23
VERSE 11
- brought up.
* 1Ki 3:1; 7:8; 9:24
- holy. Heb. holiness.
* Ex 3:5; 29:43 Eze 21:2 2Pe 1:18
VERSE 12
- on the altar.
* 2Ch 4:1 1Ch 28:17 Eze 8:16 Joe 2:17
- before the porch.
* Joh 10:23
VERSE 13
- every day.
* Ex 29:38-42 Le 23:1-17 Nu 28:1-40 29:40 Eze 45:17; 46:3-15
- three times.
* Ex 23:14-17 De 16:16 1Ki 9:25
VERSE 14
- the courses.
* 2Ch 5:11; 23:4; 31:2 1Ch 24:1-19 Lu 1:5,8
- the Levites.
* 2Ch 35:10 1Ch 6:31,32-48; 15:16-22; 16:4-6,42; 23:1-32; 24:20-31
* 1Ch 25:1-31 Ezr 6:18
- the porters. See on
* 1Ch 9:17; 26:1-19
- so had David the man of God commanded. Heb. so was the
commandment of David the man of God.
* De 33:1 2Sa 23:2 1Ki 13:1 1Ch 28:19 Ac 13:22,36
VERSE 15
- they departed. See on ch.
* 2Ch 30:12 Ex 39:42,43
- the treasures.
* 1Ki 7:51 1Ch 9:29; 26:20-26
VERSE 16
* 1Ki 5:18; 6:7
VERSE 17
- Ezion-geber.
* 2Ch 20:36 Nu 33:35 1Ki 9:26,27; 22:48
- Eloth.
* De 2:8 2Ki 14:22; 16:6
- Elath.
VERSE 18
- Huram.
* 2Ch 9:10,13
- See on
* 1Ki 9:27,28; 10:22
- Hiram. Ophir.
Conjectures respecting the situation of Ophir are endless.
Grotius conjectures it to be a part of Arabia called Aphar by
Arrian; while Bochart and others have placed it in the island
of Ceylon. Calmet supposes it to have been situated in
Armenia; but his late editor places it at the head of the
Indus. Josephus says that Ophir is the Indies, called the
Gold country; by which he is supposed to mean Chersonesus
Aurea, now Malacca, opposite Sumatra; and Le Poivre observes
that the inhabitants of these places call their gold mines
{ophirs.}
- took thence.
* Ec 2:8
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