2 Chronicles 8
1 Solomon's buildings.
7 The Canaanites which were left, Solomon makes tributaries, but the Israelites rulers.
11 Pharaoh's daughter removes to her house.
12 Solomon's yearly solemn sacrifices.
14 He appoints the priests and Levites to their places.
17 The navy fetches gold from Ophir.
After <07093> [at the end.]
cities <05892> [the cities.]
Hamath Zobah <02578> [Hamath-zobah.]
built .............. built <01129> [he built.]
Tadmor <08412> [Tadmor.]
Tadmor, the Palmyra of the Greeks, as we learn from Josephus, a celebrated city of Syria, situated in an oasis, or fertile spot of land, surrounded on all sides by a vast sandy desert, like an island in the midst of the ocean; according to Pliny, 337 miles from Seleucia and Tigrim, 203 from the nearest part of the Mediterranean, and 176 from Damascus; according to Josephus, one day's journey west of the Euphrates, and six from Babylon; and according to Ptolemy, in lat. 34 degrees north, or that of Tripoli, and about 4 degrees more easterly; and it is described by Mr. Wood as "situated under a barren ridge of hills to the west, and open on the other sides to the desert:" "about six days' journey from Aleppo, and as much from Damascus, and about twenty leagues west of the Euphrates." Palmyra attained the height of its splendour when the royal city of Zenobia was conquered by the emperor Aurelian; became a Roman colony after the victories of Trajan; and was probably reduced to its present miserable state in the wars of the Saracens. Its magnificent ruins, however, scattered over an extent of several miles, sufficiently attest its former splendour and riches.
Beth Horon .... Beth Horon <01032> [Beth-horon.]
Baalath <01191> [Baalath.]
storage cities ......... cities <05892 04543> [the store cities.]
cities ......... cities ... chariots <05892 07393> [chariot cities.]
him ............ He built .... wanted <08010 02836 01129> [all that Solomon desired to build. Heb. all the desire of]
Solomon which he desired to build.
Lebanon <03844> [and in Lebanon.]
peoples <05971> [As for all.]
Hittites <02850> [the Hittites.]
descendants ....... Israelites <01121> [whom the children.]
conscripted <05927> [to pay.]
Israelites <01121> [But of the.]
soldiers <0582> [they were men.]
250 <03967> [two hundred.]
up <05927> [brought up.]
holy <06944> [holy. Heb. holiness.]
altar <04196> [on the altar.]
front ..... porch <06440 0197> [before the porch.]
daily <03117> [every day.]
three ... celebrations <07969 06471> [three times.]
divisions .......................... divisions <04256> [the courses.]
Levitical <03881> [the Levites.]
gatekeepers <07778> [the porters.]
David ............................................. David ... man ... God ... ordered <0376 0430 04687 01732> [so had David the man of God commanded. Heb. so was the commandment of David the man of God.]
detail <05493> [they departed.]
treasuries <0214> [the treasures.]
Ezion Geber <06100> [Ezion-geber.]
Elat <0359> [Eloth.]
[Elath.]
Huram <02361> [Huram.]
[See on]
[Hiram. Ophir.]
Conjectures respecting the situation of Ophir are endless. Grotius conjectures it to be a part of Arabia called Aphar by Arrian; while Bochart and others have placed it in the island of Ceylon. Calmet supposes it to have been situated in Armenia; but his late editor places it at the head of the Indus. Josephus says that Ophir is the Indies, called the Gold country; by which he is supposed to mean Chersonesus Aurea, now Malacca, opposite Sumatra; and Le Poivre observes that the inhabitants of these places call their gold mines {ophirs.}
took .... 450 <03947 0702> [took thence.]
