
Text -- 2 Chronicles 2:11 (NET)




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JFB -> 2Ch 2:11
JFB: 2Ch 2:11 - -- This pious language creates a presumption that Huram might have attained some knowledge of the true religion from his long familiar intercourse with D...
This pious language creates a presumption that Huram might have attained some knowledge of the true religion from his long familiar intercourse with David. But the presumption, however pleasing, may be delusive (see on 1Ki 5:7).
Clarke -> 2Ch 2:11
Clarke: 2Ch 2:11 - -- Answered in writing - Though correspondence among persons of distinction was, in these early times, carried on by confidential messengers, yet we fi...
Answered in writing - Though correspondence among persons of distinction was, in these early times, carried on by confidential messengers, yet we find that epistolary correspondence did exist, and that kings could write and read in what were called by the proud and insolent Greeks and Romans barbarous nations. Nearly two thousand years after this we find a king on the British throne who could not sign his own name. About the year of our Lord 700, Withred, king of Kent, thus concludes a charter to secure the liberties of the Church: Ego Wythredus rex Cantiae haec omnia suprascripta et confirmavi, atque, a me dictata propria manu signum sanctae crucis pro ignorantia literarum espressi ; "All the above dictated by myself, I have confirmed; and because I cannot write, I have with my own hand expressed this by putting the sign of the holy cross +."- See Wilkins’ Concilta.
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Barnes -> 2Ch 2:11
Barnes: 2Ch 2:11 - -- Josephus and others professed to give Greek versions of the correspondence, which (they said) had taken place between Hiram and Solomon. No value at...
Josephus and others professed to give Greek versions of the correspondence, which (they said) had taken place between Hiram and Solomon. No value attaches to those letters, which are evidently forgeries.
Because the Lord hath loved his people - Compare the marginal references. The neighboring sovereigns, in their communications with the Jewish monarchs, seem to have adopted the Jewish name for the Supreme Being (Yahweh), either identifying Him (as did Hiram) with their own chief god or (sometimes) meaning merely to acknowledge Him as the special God of the Jewish nation and country.
Gill -> 2Ch 2:11
Gill: 2Ch 2:11 - -- Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon,.... In which letter he told him he had considered the contents of his, and ...
Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon,.... In which letter he told him he had considered the contents of his, and would grant him all that he desired, see 1Ki 5:8.
because the Lord hath loved his people; he hath made thee king over them; which are much the same words the queen of Sheba said to Solomon; see Gill on 1Ki 10:9.

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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 2:11-18
Matthew Henry: 2Ch 2:11-18 - -- Here we have, I. The return which Huram made to Solomon's embassy, in which he shows a great respect for Solomon and a readiness to serve him. Meane...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ch 2:11-16
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ch 2:11-16 - --
The answer of King Hiram; cf. 1Ki 5:7-11. - Hiram answered בּכתב , in a writing, a letter, which he sent to Solomon. In 1Ki 5:7 Hiram first ex...
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...
