1Ki 5:8-9, 7:21 | JFB | STEP | 8. Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things . . . and I will do —The contract was drawn out formally in a written document ( ), which, according to JOSEPHUS , was preserved both in the Jewish and Tyrian records.

1 Kings 5:8-9

8. Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things . . . and I will do—The contract was drawn out formally in a written document (2Ch 2:11), which, according to JOSEPHUS, was preserved both in the Jewish and Tyrian records.

1 Kings 7:21

21. Jachin and . . . Boaz—These names were symbolical, and indicated the strength and stability—not so much of the material temple, for they were destroyed along with it (Jer 52:17), as of the spiritual kingdom of God, which was embodied in the temple.