2Sa 7:2, 1Ki 7:1-12, Ecc 2:4-11, Jer 22:14-16 | TSK | STEP

stones of ten cubits.Reckoning the cubit at 21 inches, the ten cubits are 17 feet and a half, and the eight cubits are 14 feet. The magnitude of these stones was certainly extraordinary; but let us hear M. Volney, and our surprise will no longer be fixed on these stones, but transferred from Solomon's house to the ruins of Balbec: "What is still more astonishing is the enormous stones which compose the sloping wall. To the west, the second layer is formed of stones which are from 28 to 35 feet long, by about 9 in height. Over this layer, at the north-west angle, there are three stones, which alone occupy a space of 175 feet and a half; viz. the first, 58 feet 7 inches; the second, 58 feet 11 inches; and the third, exactly 58 feet; and each of these is 12 feet thick. These stones are of white granite, with large shining flakes, like gypsum: there is a quarry of this kind of stone under the whole city, and another in the adjacent mountains, which is open in several places. On the right, as we approach the city, there is still lying there a stone hewn on three sides, which is 69 feet 2 inches long, 12 feet 10 inches broad, and 13 feet 3 inches in thickness.

Eph 2:20-22; 1Pe 2:5

three rows.

6:36

the porch.

Joh 10:23; Ac 3:11; 5:12

Ecclesiastes 2:4-11

made.

Ge 11:4; 2Sa 18:18; Da 4:30

I builded.

De 8:12-14; 1Ki 7:1,2,8-12; 9:1; 15:19; 10:19,20; 2Ch 8:1-6,11

Ps 49:11

I planted.

1Ch 27:27; 2Ch 26:10; So 1:14; 7:12; 8:11,12; Isa 5:1

me.

So 4:12-16; 5:1; 6:2; Jer 39:4

I planted.

Ge 2:8,9; Lu 17:27-29

pools.

Ne 2:14; So 7:4

to water.

Ps 1:3; Jer 17:8

servants.

1Ki 9:20-22; Ezr 2:58; Ne 7:57

and had.

Ge 17:12,13

servants born in my house. Heb. sons of my house. also.

Ge 13:2; 2Ki 3:4; 1Ch 27:29-31; 2Ch 26:10; 32:27-29; Job 1:3; 42:12

silver.

1Ki 9:14,28; 10:10; 14:21,22,27; 2Ch 9:11,15-21

men singers.

2Sa 19:35; Ezr 2:65

musical instruments, etc. Heb. musical instrument andinstruments.

1Ch 25:1,6; Job 21:11,12; Ps 150:3-5; Da 3:5,7,15; Am 6:5The difficult words {shiddah weshiddoth} are variously rendered. The LXX. have [oinocoon kai oinochoas,] "male and female cup-bearers," with which the Syriac and Arabic and Parkhurst agree; Aquila, [kulikon kai kulikia,] "a cup and smaller cups;" Jerome, {scyphos et urceolos, (Vulg. {urceos,}) "goblets and pots;" Targum, "warm and cold baths;" others, as M. Desvoeux, "male and female captives;" others, "cooks and confectioners;" others, "a species of musical compositions," derived from Sido, a celebrated Phoenician woman, to whom Sanchoniatho attributes the invention of music; but others, with more probability, "wives and concubines;" and {siddoth} may be in this sense synonymous with the Arabic {seedat, domina, conjux} from {sada,} in {Conj. V. conjugium inivit.} Of the former, Solomon had three hundred, and of the latter, seven hundred; and if they are not mentioned here they are not mentioned at all, which is wholly unaccountable.

1:16; 1Ki 3:12; 10:7,23; 1Ch 29:25; 2Ch 1:1; 9:22,23

whatsoever.

3:22; 6:9; 11:9; Ge 3:6; 6:2; Jud 14:2; Job 31:1; Ps 119:37; Pr 23:5

1Jo 2:16

my heart rejoiced.

22; 5:18; 9:9; Ps 128:2

I looked.

1:14; Ge 1:31; Ex 39:43; 1Jo 2:16,17

behold.

17-23; 1:3,14; Hab 2:13; 1Ti 6:6