2:3 Solomon sent a message to King Huram 1 of Tyre: 2 “Help me 3 as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs 4 for the construction of his palace. 5
2:17 Solomon took a census 6 of all the male resident foreigners in the land of Israel, after the census his father David had taken. There were 153,600 in all.
1 tn Heb “Huram.” Some medieval Hebrew
2 map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.
3 tn The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”
6 tn Heb “counted.”
11 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”
12 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”
16 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
17 tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the
21 tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.
22 tn Or “served.”