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Leviticus:2:13 @ And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the (note:)Which they were bound (as by covenant) to use all sacrifices, (Num_18:19; 2Ch_13:5; Eze_43:24) or it means a sure and pure covenant.(:note) covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
geneva@Leviticus:13:20 @ And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it [be] in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him (note:)No one was exempted, but if the priest pronounced him unclean, he was put out from among the people: as appears by the example of Mary the prophetess, (Num_12:14) and by king Uzziah, (2Ch_26:20).(:note) unclean: it [is] a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
geneva@Numbers:27:17 @ Which may (note:)That is, govern them and do his duty, as in (2Ch_1:10).(:note) go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
geneva@Judges:9:5 @ And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and (note:)Thus tyrants to establish their usurped power, spare not the innocent blood, (2Ki_10:7; 2Ch_21:4).(:note) slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, [being] threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
geneva@1Kings:3:4 @ And the king went to (note:)For there the tabernacle was (2Ch_1:3).(:note) Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that [was] the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
geneva@1Kings:9:23 @ These [were] the chief of the officers that [were] over Solomon's work, (note:)The overseers of Solomon's works were divided into three parts: the first contained 3300, the second 300, and the third 250 who were Israelites. Here are the two last parts, which make 550. See (2Ch_8:10).(:note) five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
geneva@1Kings:9:28 @ And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, (note:)In (2Ch_8:18), 30 more are mentioned who seem to have been employed for their wages.(:note) four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.
geneva@1Kings:14:20 @ And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years: and he (note:)The Lord smote him and he died, (2Ch_13:20).(:note) slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
geneva@1Kings:14:29 @ Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, [are] they not written in (note:)Which were called the books of Shemaiah and Iddo the prophets, (2Ch_12:15).(:note) the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
geneva@1Kings:15:23 @ The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his (note:)He had gout and put his trust physicians rather than in the Lord, (2Ch_16:12).(:note) feet.
geneva@2Kings:9:16 @ So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And (note:)God had thus ordained as in (2Ch_12:7), that this wicked and idolatrous king, who was more ready to please wicked Joram than to obey the will of God, would perish with him, by whose means he thought to have been stronger.(:note) Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
geneva@2Kings:11:6 @ And a third part [shall be] at the gate of (note:)Called the east gate of the temple, (2Ch_23:5).(:note) Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.
geneva@2Kings:12:13 @ Howbeit there were (note:)For these men only had charge of the repairing of the temple, the rest of the money was brought to the king who caused these to be made later, (2Ch_24:14).(:note) not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD:
geneva@2Kings:12:20 @ And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and (note:)Because he had put Zachariah the son of Jehoiada to death, (2Ch_24:25).(:note) slew Joash in the house of Read (2Sa_5:9). Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
geneva@2Kings:14:19 @ Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to (note:)Which Rehoboam built in Judah for a fortress, (2Ch_11:9).(:note) Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
geneva@2Kings:14:21 @ And all the people of Judah took (note:)Who is also called Uzziah, (2Ch_26:1).(:note) Azariah, which [was] sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
geneva@2Kings:15:5 @ And the LORD (note:)His father and grandfather were slain by their subjects and servants, and he because he would usurp the priest's office contrary to God's ordinance was smitten immediately by the hand of God with the leprosy, (2Ch_26:21).(:note) smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son [was] over the house, As viceroy or deputy to his father. judging the people of the land.
geneva@2Kings:15:37 @ In (note:)After the death of Jotham.(:note) those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Who in one day slew 120,000 of Judah's fighting men (2Ch_28:6), because they had forsaken the true God. Pekah the son of Remaliah.
geneva@2Kings:22:2 @ And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and (note:)His zeal was prophesied of, and his name mentioned by Iddo the prophet, more than 300 years before, (1Ki_13:2) and being but eight years old, he sought the God of his father David, (2Ch_34:3).(:note) walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
geneva@2Kings:22:8 @ And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the (note:)This was the copy that Moses left them, as it appears in (2Ch_34:14), which either by the negligence of the priests had been lost, or else by the wickedness of idolatrous kings had been abolished.(:note) book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
geneva@2Kings:25:6 @ So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they (note:)Or, condemned him for his perjury and treason, (2Ch_36:13).(:note) gave judgment upon him.
geneva@1Chronicles:6:10 @ And Johanan begat Azariah, (he [it is] that executed the (note:)And valiantly resisted king Uzziah, who would have usurped the priest's office (2Ch_26:17-18).(:note) priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)
geneva@1Chronicles:22:3 @ And David prepared iron (note:)That is, which weighed fifty shekels of gold, (2Ch_3:9).(:note) in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;
geneva@2Chronicles:1:1 @ And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly. (note:)The Argument - This second book contains in brief the contents of the two books of the kings: that is, from the reign of Solomon to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian captivity. In this story some things are told in more detail than in the books of the kings and therefore help greatly in the understanding of the prophets. Three things are chiefly to be considered here: First, that when the godly kings saw the plagues of God prepared against their country for sin, they turned to the Lord and by earnest prayer were heard, and the plagues removed. Secondly, while the good rulers always loved the prophets of God and were zealous to set forth his religion throughout their dominions, it offended God greatly that the wicked hated his ministers, deposed them and set up idolatry and attempted served God according to the fantasy of men. Thus we have the chief acts from the beginning of the world to the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the 32nd year of Darius, in total 3568 years and six months.(:note)
geneva@2Chronicles:1:2 @ Then Solomon (note:)That is, he proclaimed a solemn sacrifice and commanded that all should attend.(:note) spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:3 @ So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that [was] at (note:)Read (1Ki_3:4).(:note) Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle So called, because by it God showed signs of his presence to the congregation. of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:4 @ But the Arke of God had Dauid brought vp from Kiriath-iearim, when Dauid had made preparation for it: for he had pitched a tent for it in Ierusalem.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:5 @ Moreover the (note:)Which was for the burnt offerings, (Exo_27:1).(:note) brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:6 @ And Salomon offred there before the Lord vpon the brasen altar that was in the Tabernacle of the Congregation: euen a thousand burnt offrings offred he vpon it.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:7 @ The same night did God appeare vnto Salomon, and sayde vnto him, Aske what I shall giue thee.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:8 @ And Salomon sayde vnto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy vnto Dauid my father and hast made me to reigne in his stead.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:9 @ Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be (note:)Perform your promise made to my father concerning me.(:note) established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:10 @ Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may (note:)That I may govern this people, (1Ch_27:1; 1Ki_3:7).(:note) go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, [that is so] great?
geneva@2Chronicles:1:11 @ And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the (note:)That is, to be avenged on your enemies.(:note) life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:
geneva@2Chronicles:1:12 @ Wisdome and knowledge is granted vnto thee, and I will giue thee riches and treasures and honour, so that there hath not bene the like among the Kings which were before thee, neither after thee shal there be the like.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:13 @ Then Salomon came from the hie place, that was at Gibeon, to Ierusalem from before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and reigned ouer Israel.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:14 @ And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the (note:)Which were cities appointed to keep and maintain the chariots.(:note) chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:15 @ And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem [as plenteous] as (note:)He caused so great plenty that it was valued no more than stones.(:note) stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale for abundance.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:16 @ And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: (note:)Read (1Ki_20:28).(:note) the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:17 @ They came vp also and brought out of Egypt some charet, worth sixe hundreth shekels of siluer, that is an horse for an hundreth and fiftie: and thus they brought horses to all the Kings of the Hittites, and to the Kings of Aram by their meanes.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:1 @ Then Salomon determined to builde an house for the Name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdome.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:2 @ And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and (note:)Which is to be understood of all sorts of officers and overseers: for else the chief officers were but 3300 as in (1Ki_5:16).(:note) six hundred to oversee them.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:3 @ And Salomon sent to Huram the king of Tyrus, saying, As thou hast done to Dauid my father, and didst sende him cedar trees to buylde him an house to dwell in, so do to me.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:4 @ Behold, I buylde an house vnto the Name of the Lord my God, to sanctifie it vnto him, and to burne sweete incense before him, and for the continuall shewbread, and for the burnt offrings of the morning and euening, on the Sabbath dayes, and in the new moneths, & in the solemne feastes of the Lorde our God: this is a perpetuall thing for Israel.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:5 @ And the house which I buylde, is great: for great is our God aboue all gods.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:6 @ But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn (note:)That is, to do the service which he has commanded, signifying that no one is able to honour and serve God in the perfection his majesty deserves.(:note) sacrifice before him?
geneva@2Chronicles:2:7 @ Sende me nowe therefore a cunning man that can worke in golde, in siluer, & in brasse, and in yron, & in purple, and crimosin & blue silke, & that can graue in grauen worke with the cunning men that are with me in Iudah & in Ierusalem, whom Dauid my father hath prepared.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:8 @ Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and (note:)Some take it for Brazil, or the wood called Ebenum, others for coral.(:note) algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy servants,
geneva@2Chronicles:2:9 @ That they may prepare me timber in abudance: for the house which I doe buylde, is great and wonderfull.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:10 @ 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 (note:)Of «bath» read (1Ki_7:26). It is also called ephah, but an ephah measures dry things as a bath is a measure for liquids.(:note) thousand baths of oil.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:11 @ Then Huram King of Tyrus answered in writing which he sent to Salomon, Because the Lorde hath loued his people, he hath made thee King ouer them.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:12 @ Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a (note:)The very heavens confessed that it was a singular gift of God when he gave to any nation a king that was wise and of understanding, though it appears that this Hiram had the true knowledge of God.(:note) wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:13 @ Now therefore I haue sent a wise man, and of vnderstanding of my father Hurams,
geneva@2Chronicles:2:14 @ The son of a woman of the (note:)It is also written that she was of the tribe of Naphtali, (1Ki_7:14) which may be understood that by reason of the confusion of tribes which then began to be, they married in various tribes so that by her father she might be of Dan and by her mother of Naphtali.(:note) daughters of Dan, 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 find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:15 @ Now therefore the wheate and the barley, the oyle and the wine, which my lorde hath spoken of, let him send vnto his seruants.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:16 @ And we wil cut wood in Lebanon as much as thou shalt neede, and will bring it to thee in raftes by the sea to Iapho, so thou mayest cary them to Ierusalem.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:17 @ And Salomon nombred al the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the nombring that his father Dauid had nombred them: & they were found an hundreth and three & fiftie thousand, and sixe hundreth.
geneva@2Chronicles:2:18 @ And he set seuentie thousande of them to the burden, and fourescore thousande to hewe stones in the mountaine, and three thousande and sixe hundreth ouerseers to cause the people to worke.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:1 @ Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount (note:)Which is the mountain where Abraham was thought to have sacrificed his son, (Gen_22:2).(:note) Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:2 @ And he beganne to buylde in the seconde moneth and the second day, in the fourth yeere of his reigne.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:3 @ Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first (note:)According to the whole length of the temple,(:note) measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:4 @ And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the (note:)It contained as much as the breadth of the temple did, (1Ki_6:3).(:note) breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an From the foundation to the top: for in the book of the kings mention is made from the foundation to the first stage. hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:5 @ And the greater house he sieled with firre tree which he ouerlayd with good golde, & graued thereon palme trees and chaines.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:6 @ And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was] gold of (note:)Some think it is Peru.(:note) Parvaim.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:7 @ The house, I say, the beames, postes, and walles thereof & the doores thereof ouerlayde he with gold, & graued Cherubims vpon the walles.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:8 @ He made also the house of the most holy place: the length thereof was in the front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, & the breadth thereof twentie cubites: and he ouerlayde it with the best golde, of sixe hundreth talents.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:9 @ And the weight of the nayles was fiftie shekels of golde, and hee ouerlayde the chambers with golde.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:10 @ And in the house of the most holy place he made two Cherubims wrought like children, and ouerlayd them with golde.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:11 @ And the winges of the Cherubims were twentie cubites long: the one wing was fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house, and the other wing fiue cubites, reaching to the wing of the other Cherub.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:12 @ Likewise the wing of ye other Cherub was fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house, & the other wing fiue cubites ioyning to the wing of the other Cherub.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:13 @ The wings of these Cherubims were spread abroade twentie cubites: they stoode on their feete, and their faces were toward the house.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:14 @ And he made the (note:)Which separated the temple from the most holy place.(:note) vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:15 @ Also he made before the house two pillars of (note:)Every one was eighteen cubits long, but the half cubit could not be seen, for it was hid in the roundness of the chapiter, and therefore he gives to every one only 17 and a half.(:note) thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:16 @ And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them] on the heads of the pillars; and made an (note:)For every pillar a hundred, read (1Ki_7:20).(:note) hundred pomegranates, and put [them] on the chains.
geneva@2Chronicles:3:17 @ And he set vp the pillars before the Temple, one on the right hande and the other on the left, and called that on the right hand Iachin, & that on the left hand Boaz.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:1 @ And hee made an altar of brasse twentie cubites long, and twentie cubites broade, and ten cubites hie.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:2 @ Also he made a molten (note:)A great vessel of brass, so called because of the great quantity of water which it contained, (1Ki_7:24).(:note) sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:3 @ And under (note:)Meaning, under the brim of the sea, (1Ki_7:24).(:note) it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: In the length of every cubit were ten heads or knops which in all are 300. ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:4 @ It stoode vpon twelue oxen: three looked toward the North, and three looked towarde the West, and three looked towarde the South, and three looked towarde the East, and the Sea stoode about vpon them, and all their hinder parts were inwarde.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:5 @ And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; [and] it received and held (note:)In the first book of the kings, (1Ki_7:26), mention is only made of 2000, but the lesser number was taken there, and here according as the measures proved afterwards, is declared.(:note) three thousand baths.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:6 @ He made also ten caldrons, and put fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left, to wash in them, and to clense in them that which apperteined to the burnt offrings: but the Sea was for the Priests to wash in.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:7 @ And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to (note:)Even as they should be made.(:note) their form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:8 @ And he made ten tables, & put them in the Temple, fiue on the right hand, & fiue on the left: and he made an hundreth basens of golde.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:9 @ Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great (note:)Called also the porch of Solomon, (Act_3:11). It is also taken for the temple where Christ preached, (Mat_21:23).(:note) court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:10 @ And he set the Sea on the right side Eastward toward the South.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:11 @ And Huram made pottes and besoms and basens, and Huram finished the worke that hee shoulde make for King Salomon for the house of God,
geneva@2Chronicles:4:12 @ To wit, two pillars, and the bowles & the chapiters on the top of ye two pillars, & two grates to couer the two bowles of the chapiters which were vpon the toppe of the pillars:
geneva@2Chronicles:4:13 @ And foure hundreth pomegranates for the two grates, two rowes of pomegranates for euery grate to couer the two bowles of the chapiters, that were vpon the pillars.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:14 @ He made also bases, and made caldrons vpon the bases:
geneva@2Chronicles:4:15 @ And a Sea, and twelue bulles vnder it:
geneva@2Chronicles:4:16 @ The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram (note:)Whom Solomon reverenced for the gifts that God had given him, as a father; he had the same name as Huram the king of Tyrus, his mother was a Jewess, and his father a Tyrian. Some read, for his father, the author of this work.(:note) his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:17 @ In the playne of Iorden did the King cast them in clay betweene Succoth & Zeredathah.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:18 @ And Salomon made al these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of brasse could not be rekoned.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:19 @ And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the (note:)In Hebrew, the bread of the faces because they were set before the ark, where the Lord showed his presence.(:note) shewbread [was set];
geneva@2Chronicles:4:20 @ Moreouer the candlestickes, with their lampes to burne them after the maner, before the oracle, of pure golde.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:21 @ And the floures and the lampes, and the snuffers of gold, which was fine golde.
geneva@2Chronicles:4:22 @ And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, [of] pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy [place], and the doors of the house of the temple, [were (note:)That is, covered with plates of gold.(:note) of] gold.
geneva@2Chronicles:5:1 @ So was all the worke finished that Salomon made for the house of the Lord, and Salomon brought in the things that Dauid his father had dedicated, with the siluer and the golde, and all the vessels, and put them among the treasures of the house of God.
geneva@2Chronicles:5:2 @ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the (note:)Read (2Sa_6:12).(:note) city of David, which [is] Zion.
geneva@2Chronicles:5:3 @ Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the (note:)When the things were dedicated and brought into the temple.(:note) feast which [was] in the seventh Called in Hebrew Ethanim, containing part of September and part of October, (1Ki_8:2), which moves the Jews called the first month, because they say that the world was created in that month, and after they came from Egypt, they began at March: but because this opinion is uncertain, we always make March the first as the best writers do. month.
geneva@2Chronicles:5:4 @ And all the Elders of Israel came, and the Leuites tooke vp the Arke.
geneva@2Chronicles:5:5 @ And they caried vp the Arke and the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle, those did the Priests and Leuites bring vp.
geneva@2Chronicles:5:6 @ And King Salomon & all the Congregation of Israel that were assembled vnto him, were before ye Arke, offring sheepe & bullocks, which could not be told nor nobred for multitude.
geneva@2Chronicles:5:7 @ So the Priests brought the Arke of the couenant of the Lord vnto his place, into the Oracle of the house, into the most Holy place, euen vnder the wings of the Cherubims.
geneva@2Chronicles:5:8 @ For ye Cherubims stretched out their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the barres thereof aboue.
geneva@2Chronicles:5:9 @ And they drewe out the barres, that the endes of the barres might bee seene out of the Arke before the Oracle, but they were not seene without: and there they are vnto this day.
geneva@2Chronicles:5:10 @ [There was] nothing in the ark save (note:)For Aaron's rod and manna were taken from there before it was brought to this place.(:note) the two tables which Moses put [therein] at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
geneva@2Chronicles:5:11 @ And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place]: (for all the priests [that were] present were (note:)Were prepared to serve the Lord.(:note) sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course:
geneva@2Chronicles:5:12 @ And the Leuites the singers of all sortes, as of Asaph, of Heman, of Ieduthun, and of their sonnes and of their brethren, being clad in fine linen, stoode with cymbales, and with violes and harpes at the East ende of the altar, and with them an hundreth and twentie Priestes blowing with trumpets:
geneva@2Chronicles:5:13 @ It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers [were] (note:)They all played the same tune.(:note) as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up [their] voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, [saying], This was the effect of their songs, (Psa_118:1, Psa_136:1). For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: that [then] the house was filled with a cloud, [even] the house of the LORD;
geneva@2Chronicles:5:14 @ So that the Priests could not stand to minister, because of the cloude: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:1 @ Then (note:)After he had seen the glory of the Lord in the cloud.(:note) said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:2 @ And I haue built thee an house to dwell in, an habitation for thee to dwell in for euer.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:3 @ And the King turned his face, and blessed all the Congregation of Israel (for all the Congregation of Israel stoode there )
geneva@2Chronicles:6:4 @ And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who spake with his mouth vnto Dauid my father, & hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
geneva@2Chronicles:6:5 @ Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no citie of al the tribes of Israel to buylde an house, that my Name might be there, neyther chose I any man to be a ruler ouer my people Israel:
geneva@2Chronicles:6:6 @ But I haue chosen Ierusalem, that my Name might be there, & haue chosen Dauid to be ouer my people Israel.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:7 @ And it was in the heart of Dauid my father to builde an house vnto the Name of the Lord God of Israel,
geneva@2Chronicles:6:8 @ But the Lorde sayde to Dauid my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to buylde an house vnto my Name, thou diddest well, that thou wast so minded.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:9 @ Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house, but thy sonne which shall come out of thy loynes, he shall buylde an house vnto my Name.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:10 @ And the Lorde hath performed his worde that he spake: and I am risen vp in the roume of Dauid my father, and am set on the throne of Israel as the Lord promised, & haue built an house to the Name of the Lord God of Israel.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:11 @ And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the (note:)Meaning the two tables, in which is contained the effect of the covenant that God made with our fathers.(:note) covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:12 @ And (note:)On a scaffold that was made for that purpose, that he praying for the whole people might be heard by all, as in (1Ki_8:22).(:note) he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
geneva@2Chronicles:6:13 @ For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and (note:)Both to give thanks for the great benefits of God bestowed on him, and also to pray for the perseverance and prosperity of his people.(:note) spread forth his hands toward heaven,
geneva@2Chronicles:6:14 @ And sayd, O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heauen nor in earth, which keepest couenant, and mercie vnto thy seruants, that walke before thee with all their heart.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:15 @ Thou that hast kept with thy seruant Dauid my father, that thou hast promised him: for thou spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as appeareth this day.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:16 @ Therefore now Lord God of Israel, keepe with thy seruant Dauid my father, that thou hast promised him, saying, Thou shalt not want a man in my sight, that shall sit vpon the throne of Israel: so that thy sonnes take heede to their wayes, to walke in my Lawe, as thou hast walked before me.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:17 @ And now, O Lorde God of Israel, let thy worde be verified, which thou spakest vnto thy seruant Dauid.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:18 @ (Is it true in deede that God will dwell with man on earth? beholde, the heauens, and the heauens of heauens are not able to conteine thee: how much more vnable is this house, which I haue buylt?)
geneva@2Chronicles:6:19 @ But haue thou respect to the prayer of thy seruant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to heare the crye and prayer which thy seruant prayeth before thee,
geneva@2Chronicles:6:20 @ That thine (note:)That you may declare in effect that you have a continual care over this place.(:note) eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:21 @ Heare thou therefore the supplication of thy seruant, and of thy people Israel, which they pray in this place: and heare thou in the place of thine habitation, euen in heauen, and when thou hearest, be mercifull.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:22 @ If a man sin against his (note:)By retaining anything from him, or by denying that which he has left him to keep, or do him any wrong.(:note) neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
geneva@2Chronicles:6:23 @ Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way (note:)Meaning, to give him that which he has deserved.(:note) upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:24 @ And when thy people Israel shalbe ouerthrowen before the enemie, because they haue sinned against thee, and turne againe, and confesse thy Name, and pray, and make supplication before thee in this house,
geneva@2Chronicles:6:25 @ Then heare thou in heauen, and be mercifull vnto the sinne of thy people Israel, and bring them againe vnto the land which thou gauest to them and to their fathers.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:26 @ When heauen shall be shut vp, and there shalbe no rayne, because they haue sinned against thee, and shall pray in this place, and confesse thy Name, and turne from their sinne, when thou doest afflict them,
geneva@2Chronicles:6:27 @ Then heare thou in heauen, and pardon the sinne of thy seruants, and of thy people Israel (when thou hast taught them the good way wherein they may walke) and giue rayne vpon thy lande, which thou hast giuen vnto thy people for an inheritance.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:28 @ When there shalbe famine in the land, when there shalbe pestilence, blasting, or mildew, when there shall be grashopper, or caterpiller, when their enemie shall besiege them in the cities of their land, or any plague or any sickenesse,
geneva@2Chronicles:6:29 @ Then what prayer and supplication so euer shalbe made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, whe euery one shall knowe his owne plague, and his owne disease, and shall stretch forth his hands toward this house,
geneva@2Chronicles:6:30 @ Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose (note:)He declares that the prayers of hypocrites cannot be heard, nor of any but of them who pray to God with a true faith and in true repentance.(:note) heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
geneva@2Chronicles:6:31 @ That they may feare thee, and walke in thy wayes as long as they liue in the land which thou gauest vnto our fathers.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:32 @ Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and (note:)He shows that before God there is no deception of person, but all people who fear him and work righteousness are accepted, (Act_10:35).(:note) pray in this house;
geneva@2Chronicles:6:33 @ Heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place, and doe according to all that the stranger calleth for vnto thee, that all the people of the earth may knowe thy Name, and feare thee like thy people Israel, and that they may knowe, that thy Name is called vpon in this house which I haue built.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:34 @ If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that (note:)Meaning, that no one should enterprise any war, but at the Lord's command, that is, which is lawful by his word.(:note) thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;
geneva@2Chronicles:6:35 @ Then heare thou in heauen their prayer & their supplication, and iudge their cause.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:36 @ If they sinne against thee ( for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them and deliuer them vnto the enemies, and they take them and cary them away captiue vnto a land farre or neere,
geneva@2Chronicles:6:37 @ If they turne againe to their heart in the lande whither they be caryed in captiues, and turne and pray vnto thee in the lande of their captiuitie, saying, We haue sinned, we haue transgressed and haue done wickedly,
geneva@2Chronicles:6:38 @ If they turne againe to thee with all their heart, and with all their soule in the land of their captiuitie, whither they haue caryed them captiues, and pray toward their land, which thou gauest vnto their fathers, & toward the citie which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I haue built for thy Name,
geneva@2Chronicles:6:39 @ Then heare thou in heauen, in the place of thine habitation their prayer and their supplication, and iudge their cause, and be mercifull vnto thy people, which haue sinned against thee.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:40 @ Nowe my God, I beseech thee, let thine eyes be open, & thine eares attent vnto the prayer that is made in this place.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:41 @ Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy (note:)That is, into your temple.(:note) resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with Let them be preserved by your power, and made virtuous and holy. salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
geneva@2Chronicles:6:42 @ O LORD God, turn not away the face of (note:)Hear my prayer, I who am your anointed king.(:note) thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:1 @ Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the (note:)By this God declared that he was pleased with Solomon's prayer.(:note) fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:2 @ So that the Priestes could not euter into the house of the Lorde, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lordes house.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:3 @ And when all the children of Israel saw the fire, and the glory of the Lord come downe vpon the house, they bowed themselues with their faces to the earth vpon the pauement, and worshipped and praysed the Lord, saying, For he is good, because his mercy lasteth for euer.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:4 @ Then the King and all the people offred sacrifices before the Lord.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:5 @ And King Salomon offered a sacrifice of two and twentie thousand bullockes, and an hundreth and twentie thousand sheepe. so the King and all the people dedicated the house of God.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:6 @ And the Priests waited on their offices, and the Leuites with the instruments of musicke of the Lorde, which King Dauid had made to praise the Lord, Because his mercy lasteth for euer: whe Dauid praysed God by them, the Priestes also blewe trumpets ouer against them: and all they of Israel stoode by.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:7 @ Moreouer Salomon halowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there hee had prepared burnt offerings, and the fatte of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Salomon had made, was not able to receiue the burnt offering, and the meate offring, and the fat.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:8 @ Also at the same time Solomon kept (note:)The feast of the tabernacles which was kept in the seventh month.(:note) the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:9 @ And in the eighth day they (note:)They assembled to hear the word of God, after they had remained seven days in the booths or tabernacles.(:note) made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:10 @ And on the (note:)They had permission to depart on the 22nd day, (1Ki_8:66) but they did not leave till the next day.(:note) three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:11 @ So Salomon finished the house of the Lorde, and the Kings house, and all that came into Salomons heart to make in the house of the Lorde: and he prospered in his house.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:12 @ And the Lord appeared to Salomon by night and said to him, I haue heard thy prayer, and haue chosen this place for my selfe to be an house of sacrifice.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:13 @ If I shut the heauen that there be no raine, or if I commaunde the grashopper to deuoure the lande, or if I sende pestilence among my people,
geneva@2Chronicles:7:14 @ If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will (note:)I will cause the pestilence to cease and destroy the beasts that hurt the fruit of the earth, and send rain in due season.(:note) heal their land.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:15 @ Then mine eies shalbe open & mine eares attent vnto the prayer made in this place.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:16 @ For I haue nowe chosen and sanctified this house, that my Name may be there for euer: and mine eyes & mine heart shalbe there perpetually.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:17 @ And if thou wilt walke before me, as Dauid thy father walked, to doe according vnto all that I haue commanded thee, and shalt obserue my statutes and my iudgements,
geneva@2Chronicles:7:18 @ Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdome, according as I made the couenant with Dauid thy father, saying, Thou shalt not want a man to be ruler in Israel.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:19 @ But if ye turne away, and forsake my statutes and my commandements which I haue set before you, and shall goe and serue other gods, and worshippe them,
geneva@2Chronicles:7:20 @ Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have (note:)Declaring that God had more concern for their salvation than for the advancement of his own glory: and where men abuse those things which God has appointed to set forth his praise, he withdraws his graces.(:note) sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations.
geneva@2Chronicles:7:21 @ And this house which is most hie, shall be an astonishment to euery one that passeth by it, so that he shall say, Why hath the Lorde done thus to this lande, and to this house?
geneva@2Chronicles:7:22 @ And they shall answere, Because they forsooke the Lorde God of their fathers, which brought them out of the lande of Egypt, and haue taken holde on other gods, and haue worshipped them, and serued them, therefore hath he brought all this euill vpon them.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:1 @ And it came to pass at the end of (note:)Signifying that he was 20 years in building them.(:note) twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
geneva@2Chronicles:8:2 @ That the cities which Huram had (note:)That is, which Hiram gave again to Solomon because they did not please him and therefore called them Cabul, that is, dirt or filth, (1Ki_9:13).(:note) restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:3 @ And Salomon went to Hamath Zobah, and ouercame it.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:4 @ And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the (note:)Meaning of munitions and treasures for the war.(:note) store cities, which he built in Hamath.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:5 @ Also he built (note:)That is, he repaired and fortified them, for they were built long before by Sherah a noble woman of the tribe of Ephraim, (1Ch_6:68, 1Ch_7:24).(:note) Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
geneva@2Chronicles:8:6 @ Also Baalath, and al the cities of store that Salomon had, and all the charet cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and euery pleasaunt place that Salomon had a minde to builde in Ierusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the lande of his dominion.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:7 @ And all the people that were left to ye Hittites, and ye Amorites, and Perizzites, and the Hiuuites, and the Iebusites, which were not of Israel,
geneva@2Chronicles:8:8 @ But of their children which were left after them in the lande, whome the children of Israel had not consumed, euen them did Salomon make tributaries vntill this day.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:9 @ But of the children of Israel did Salomon make no seruantes for his worke: for they were men of warre, and his chiefe princes, and the captaines of his charets and of his horsemen.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:10 @ And these [were] the chief of king Solomon's officers, [even] (note:)For in all there were 3300 but here he means of them who had the principal charge, (1Ki_9:23).(:note) two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:11 @ Then Salomon brought vp the daughter of Pharaoh out of the citie of Dauid, into the house that he had built for her: for he saide, My wife shall not dwel in the house of Dauid King of Israel: for it is holy, because that the Arke of the Lorde came vnto it.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:12 @ Then Salomon offered burnt offrings vnto the Lord, on the altar of the Lorde, which he had built before the porche,
geneva@2Chronicles:8:13 @ Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, (note:)Read (Leviticus. strkjv@23:1-44).(:note) three times in the year, [even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:14 @ And he set the courses of the Priestes to their offices, according to the order of Dauid his father, and the Leuites in their watches, for to praise and minister before the Priestes euery day, and the porters by their courses, at euery gate: for so was the commandement of Dauid the man of God.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:15 @ And they declined not from the commandement of the King, concerning the Priests and the Leuites, touching al things, and touching the treasures.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:16 @ Now all the (note:)Both for the matte and also for the workmanship.(:note) work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. [So] the house of the LORD was perfected.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:17 @ Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the (note:)Meaning, the Red Sea.(:note) sea side in the land of Edom.
geneva@2Chronicles:8:18 @ And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence (note:)Which is thought to amount to 3,600,000 crowns, for here mention is made of 30 more than are spoken of, (1Ki_9:28).(:note) four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought [them] to king Solomon.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:1 @ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to (note:)To know whether his wisdom was as great as the report was.(:note) prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:2 @ And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was (note:)There was no question so hard that he did not resolve.(:note) nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:3 @ Then the Queene of Sheba sawe the wisedome of Salomon, and the house that he had buylt,
geneva@2Chronicles:9:4 @ And the meate of his table, and the sitting of his seruants, and the order of his wayters, and their apparel, and his butlers, and their apparel, & his burnt offrings which he offred in the house of the Lorde, and she was greatly astonied.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:5 @ And she saide to the King, It was a true worde which I heard in mine owne lande of thy sayings, and of thy wisedome:
geneva@2Chronicles:9:6 @ Howbeit I beleeued not their report, vntil I came, and mine eyes had seene it: & beholde, the one halfe of thy great wisedom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:7 @ Happie are thy men, and happie are these thy seruants, which stande before thee alway, and heare thy wisedome.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:8 @ Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his (note:)Meaning, that the Israelites were God's peculiar people, and that kings are the lieutenants of God, who ought to grant to him the superiority and administer justice to all.(:note) throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:9 @ Then she gaue the King sixe score talents of golde, and of sweete odours exceeding much & precious stones: neither was there such sweete odours since, as the Queene of Sheba gaue vnto King Salomon.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:10 @ And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought (note:)Read (2Ch_2:8, 1Ki_10:11).(:note) algum trees and precious stones.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:11 @ And the king made [of] the algum trees (note:)Or pillars: meaning the garnishing and trimming of the stairs or pillars.(:note) terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:12 @ And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, (note:)That is, which the king gave her for recompense of the treasure which she brought.(:note) beside [that] which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:13 @ Also the weight of golde that came to Salomon in one yeere, was sixe hundreth three score and sixe talents of golde,
geneva@2Chronicles:9:14 @ Besides that which chapmen and marchants brought: and all the Kings of Arabia, and the princes of the countrey brought golde and siluer to Salomon.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:15 @ And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: (note:)Which amounts to 2400 crowns of the sun.(:note)Or pounds, called mina, of which every one seemed to make a hundred shekels. six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:16 @ And three hundreth shieldes of beaten golde: three hundreth shekels of golde went to one shielde, and the King put them in the house of the wood of Lebanon.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:17 @ And the King made a great throne of yuorie and ouerlaid it with pure golde.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:18 @ And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, [which were] (note:)That is, the steps and the footstool were fastened to the throne.(:note) fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the Upon the pommels or knops. stays:
geneva@2Chronicles:9:19 @ And twelue lyons stoode there on the sixe steps on either side: there was not the like made in any kingdome.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:20 @ And all King Salomons drinking vessels were of golde, and all the vessels of the house of the wood of Lebanon were of pure gold: for siluer was nothing esteemed in ye dayes of Salomo.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:21 @ For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of (note:)Which is thought by the best writers to be Cilicia, (1Ki_10:22).(:note) Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:22 @ So King Salomon excelled all the Kings of the earth in riches and wisedome.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:23 @ And all the Kings of the earth sought the presence of Salomon, to heare his wisedome that God had put in his heart.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:24 @ And they brought euery man his present, vessels of siluer, and vessels of golde, and raiment, armour, and sweet odours, horses, and mules, from yeere to yeere.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:25 @ And Solomon had (note:)That is, ten horses in every stable, which in all amounts to 40,000 as in (1Ki_4:26).(:note) four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:26 @ And he reigned ouer all the Kings from the Riuer euen vnto the land of the Philistims, and to the border of Egypt.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:27 @ And the king made silver in Jerusalem (note:)The abundance of those temporal treasures in Solomon's kingdom is a figure of the spiritual treasures which the elect will enjoy in the heavens under the true Solomon, Christ.(:note) as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the low plains in abundance.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:28 @ And they brought vnto Salomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all landes.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:29 @ Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer (note:)That is, who prophesied against him.(:note) against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
geneva@2Chronicles:9:30 @ And Salomon reigned in Ierusalem ouer all Israel fourtie yeeres.
geneva@2Chronicles:9:31 @ And Salomon slept with his fathers, and they buryed him in the citie of Dauid his father: and Rehoboam his sonne reigned in his steade.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:1 @ And Rehoboam (note:)After the death of Solomon.(:note) went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:2 @ And when Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat heard it, (which was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Salomon the King) he returned out of Egypt.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:3 @ And they sent and called him: so came Ieroboam and all Israel, and communed with Rehoboam, saying,
geneva@2Chronicles:10:4 @ Thy father (note:)That is, handled us rudely, it seems that God hardened their hearts, so that they murmured without cause, which declares also the inconstancy of the people.(:note) made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:5 @ And he sayde to them, Depart yet three dayes, then come againe vnto me; the people departed.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:6 @ And King Rehoboam tooke counsel with the olde men that had stande before Salomon his father, while hee yet liued, saying, What counsell giue ye that I may answere this people?
geneva@2Chronicles:10:7 @ And they spake vnto him, saying, If thou be kinde to this people, and please them, and speake louing words to them, they will be thy seruants for euer.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:8 @ But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that (note:)Or, that stood by him, that is, which were of his counsel and secrets.(:note) stood before him.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:9 @ And he sayd vnto them, What counsel giue ye, that we may answere this people, which haue spoken to mee, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put vpon vs, lighter?
geneva@2Chronicles:10:10 @ And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My (note:)Or, little finger, meaning that he was of far greater power than his father was.(:note) little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:11 @ Now whereas my father did burden you with a grieuous yoke, I will yet increase your yoke: my father hath chastised you with roddes, but I will correct you with scourges.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:12 @ Then Ieroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the King had appointed saying, Come againe to me the third day.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:13 @ And the King answered them sharply: and King Rehoboam left the counsel of the ancient men,
geneva@2Chronicles:10:14 @ And spake to them after ye counsell of the yong men, saying, My father made your yoke grieuous, but I wil incease it: my father chastised you with rods, but I will correct you with scourges.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:15 @ So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the (note:)God's will overrides all so that nothing can be done but according to the same, and yet man's will works by itself, so that he cannot use the excuse that his deed was of God's ordinance.(:note) cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:16 @ So when all Isarael sawe that the King would not heare them, the people answered the King, saying, What portion haue we in Dauid? for we haue none inheritance in the sonue of Ishai. O Israel, euery man to your tents: now see to thine owne house, Dauid. So all Israel departed to their tents.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:17 @ Howbeit Rehoboam reigned ouer the children of Israel, that dwelt in the cities of Iudah.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:18 @ Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was ouer the tribute, and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died: then King Rehoboham made speede to get him vp to his charet, to flee to Ierusalem.
geneva@2Chronicles:10:19 @ And Israel rebelled against the house of Dauid vnto this day.
geneva@2Chronicles:11:1 @ And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and (note:)That is, the half tribe of Benjamin for the other half went after Jeroboam.(:note) Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen [men], which were warriors, to fight against Meaning the ten tribes who rebelled. Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
geneva@2Chronicles:11:2 @ But the worde of the Lorde came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
geneva@2Chronicles:11:3 @ Speake vnto Rehoboam, the sonne of Salomon King of Iudah, and to all Israel that are in Iudah, and Beniamin, saying,
geneva@2Chronicles:11:4 @ Thus sayth the Lorde, Ye shall not goe vp, nor fight against your brethren: returne euery man to his house: for this thing is done of me. They obeyed therfore the word of the Lord, and returned from going against Ieroboam.
geneva@2Chronicles:11:5 @ And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and (note:)Or, repaired them and made them strong to be more able to resist Jeroboam.(:note) built cities for defence in Judah.
geneva@2Chronicles:11:6 @ Hee buylt also Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
geneva@2Chronicles:11:7 @ And Beth-zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
geneva@2Chronicles:11:8 @ And Gath, and Maresha, and Ziph,
geneva@2Chronicles:11:9 @ And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
geneva@2Chronicles:11:10 @ And Zorah, and Aialon, and Hebron, which were in Iudah and Beniamin, strong cities.![[pBiblx2]](/img/menu.png)