
Text -- 2 Chronicles 2:10 (NET)




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JFB -> 2Ch 2:10
JFB: 2Ch 2:10 - -- Wheat, stripped of the husk, boiled, and saturated with butter, forms a frequent meal with the laboring people in the East (compare 1Ki 5:11). There i...
Wheat, stripped of the husk, boiled, and saturated with butter, forms a frequent meal with the laboring people in the East (compare 1Ki 5:11). There is no discrepancy between that passage and this. The yearly supplies of wine and oil, mentioned in the former, were intended for Huram's court in return for the cedars sent him; while the articles of meat and drink specified here were for the workmen on Lebanon.
TSK -> 2Ch 2:10

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Barnes -> 2Ch 2:10
Barnes: 2Ch 2:10 - -- Beaten wheat - The Hebrew text is probably corrupt here. The true original may be restored from marginal reference, where the wheat is said to ...
Beaten wheat - The Hebrew text is probably corrupt here. The true original may be restored from marginal reference, where the wheat is said to have been given "for food."
The barley and the wine are omitted in Kings. The author of Chronicles probably filled out the statement which the writer of Kings has given in brief; the barley, wine, and ordinary oil, would be applied to the sustenance of the foreign laborers.
Haydock -> 2Ch 2:10
Haydock: 2Ch 2:10 - -- Wheat. Hebrew adds, "beaten." ---
Barley and wine are not specified [in] 3 Kings v. 11. (Calmet) ---
Measures, like the Roman amphora, contai...
Wheat. Hebrew adds, "beaten." ---
Barley and wine are not specified [in] 3 Kings v. 11. (Calmet) ---
Measures, like the Roman amphora, contained 960 ozs. (Cornelius a Lapide) ---
Hebrew has, "batim," in both places; but [in] 3 Kings we find, "twenty cores of oil." The satum, "measure," was only one-third of the bath or epha. (Calmet)
Gill -> 2Ch 2:10
Gill: 2Ch 2:10 - -- Behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat,.... Meaning, not what was beaten out of the...
Behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat,.... Meaning, not what was beaten out of the husk with the flail, as some; nor bruised or half broke for pottage, as others; but ground into flour, as R. Jonah d interprets it; or rather, perhaps, it should be rendered "food" e that is, for his household, as in 1Ki 5:11, and the hire of these servants is proposed to be given in this way, because wheat was scarce with the Tyrians, and they were obliged to have it from the Jews, Act 12:20,
and twenty thousand measures of barley; the measures of both these were the cor, of which see 1Ki 5:11,
and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil; which measure was the tenth part of a "cor". According to the Ethiopians, a man might consume four of these measures in the space of a month f.

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NET Notes: 2Ch 2:10 Heb “20,000 baths” (also a second time later in this verse). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liter...
Geneva Bible -> 2Ch 2:10
Geneva Bible: 2Ch 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...

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ch 2:1-18
TSK Synopsis: 2Ch 2:1-18 - --1 Solomon's labourers for the building of the temple.3 His embassage to Huram for workmen and provision of stuff.11 Huram sends him a kind answer.17 S...
MHCC -> 2Ch 2:1-18
MHCC: 2Ch 2:1-18 - --Solomon informs Huram of the particular services to be performed in the temple. The mysteries of the true religion, unlike those of the Gentile supers...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ch 2:1-10
Matthew Henry: 2Ch 2:1-10 - -- Solomon's wisdom was given him, not merely for speculation, to entertain himself (though it is indeed a princely entertainment), nor merely for conv...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ch 2:3-10
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ch 2:3-10 - --
(2:2-9). Solomon, through his ambassadors, addressed himself to Huram king of Tyre, with the request that he would send him an architect and build...
Constable: 2Ch 1:1--9:31 - --III. THE REIGN OF SOLOMON chs. 1--9
The Chronicler's main interest in David's reign, as we have seen, focused on...

Constable: 2Ch 2:1--5:2 - --B. The Building of the Temple 2:1-5:1
Solomon was a model of the ultimate Davidic temple builder. Conseq...
