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e The LXX reads 'from the high place.' The text, as we have it, is simply

a copyist's error.

§ 17.-NOTE.-B. appears to have some additional materials. a See below, v. 17, where this verse is repeated.

LXX Hiram in both accounts.

by Josephus (Ant. viii. 2. 6, and 5. 3).

b A. Hiram. B. Huram, passim.

c See the correspondence as given

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B. 2 Chron. 2.

(Continued.)

As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with

me.

Behold, I build an house for the name of the LORD my God, [to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel. 5 And the house which I build is great for great is our God above 6 all gods. But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn incense before him?]

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Now therefore [send me a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave all manner of gravings, to be with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did 8 provide.] Send me also cedar trees, [fir trees, and algum trees,] out of Lebanon: [for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon ;] and, [behold,] my servants shall be 9 with thy servants, even to prepare me timber in abundance :

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B. 2 Chron. 2.

(Continued.)

I am about to build shall be 10 wonderful great.] And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, [and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine,] and twenty thousand baths of oil.

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Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD loveth his people, he hath made thee king over them.

Blessed be 12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD, [the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth,]

[this day,] which hath given to David a wise son [over this great people].

And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard the message which thou hast sent unto me: I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and 9 concerning timber of fir. My

servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and thou shalt receive them and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

who hath given to David [the king] a wise son,

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[endued with discretion and understanding, that should build an house for the LORD, and an house for his king13 dom. And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with under14 standing, of Huram my father's, the son of a woman of the daughters of Dand, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to devise any device that there may be a place appointed unto him with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.]

d See I Kings 7. 13, where the mother is said to be of the tribe of Naphtali.

A. 1 Kings 5.

(Continued.)

B. 2 Chron. 2.
(Continued.)

10 So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir accord11 ing to all his desire. And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. 12 [And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him ; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.]

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therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him 16 send unto his servants: and we

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will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats! by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.

And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred h.

18 And he set threescore and ten thousand [of them] to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people awork.

A gives the yearly grant for Hiram's household, 20,000 measures of wheat, and twenty measures of pure oil. B. gives the grant for the workmen, 20,000 measures of wheat, barley, wine, and oil. The word is only in these Books, and Ezek. 45. 14. A. has it for the measures of oil as well as for the wheat. In each case A. uses the singular form and B. the plural. f

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a peculiar word, here only. The same is the case with the word translated 'floats.' g A. gives 30,000 Lebanon workers (whom B. does not refer to). The burden bearers and hewers answer in the two accounts. The foremen are 300 less in A. than in B. Josephus follows A. h See above, v. 2.

For officers D'Y, B. has D'Y, which looks like a var. lect. The word is only used in late books, and in the titles to Psalms, where it is translated 'chief musician.' It signifies to overlook or set forward any work, whether mechanical or musical, and is applied to chief harpers 1 Chron. 15. 21. Cf. Hab. 3. 19.

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§ 18.-NOTE.-B. only gives an outline, but it agrees in the main with A. "This important parenthesis seems to imply that the length of the cubit had been reduced in later times, but that the measurements are here given according to the original or longer cubit.

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