SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:11
¶ Entonces Hiram rey de Tiro respondió por letras, las que envió a Salomón: Porque el SEÑOR amó a su pueblo, te ha puesto por rey sobre ellos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:11
Verse 11. Answered in writing] Though correspondence among persons of distinction was, in these early times, carried on by confidential messengers, yet we find that epistolary correspondence did exist, and that kings could write and read in what were called by the proud and insolent Greeks and Romans barbarous nations. Nearly two thousand years after this we find a king on the British throne who could not sign his own name. About the year of our Lord 700, Withred, king of Kent, thus concludes a charter to secure the liberties of the Church: Ego Wythredus rex Cantiae haec omnia suprascripta et confirmavi, atque, a me dictata propria manu signum sanctae crucis pro ignorantia literarum espressi; "All the above dictated by myself, I have confirmed; and because I cannot write, I have with my own hand expressed this by putting the sign of the holy cross +." -See Wilkins' Concilta.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon , etc.] In which letter he told him he had considered the contents of his, and would grant him all that he desired, (see 1 Kings 5:8) because the Lord hath loved his people; he hath made thee king over them ; which are much the same words the queen of Sheba said to Solomon, (see Gill on “ 1 Kings 10:9”).
Matthew Henry Commentary
The building of the temple.
--There is a more particular account of the building of the temple in 1Ki 6. It must be in the place David had prepared, not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Ful instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enoug to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Le us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way ma be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God throug the Spirit __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 חורם 2361 מלך 4428 צר 6865 בכתב 3791 וישׁלח 7971 אל 413 שׁלמה 8010 באהבת 160 יהוה 3068 את 853 עמו 5971 נתנך 5414 עליהם 5921 מלך׃ 4428
