1 Kings 1:40
flutes <02485> [pipes. or, flutes.]
celebrating <08056> [rejoiced.]
ground shake <01234 0776> [the earth rent.]
We use a similar expression in precisely the same sense: "They rent the air with their cries."
1 Kings 1:1
old <02204> [old.]
David was probably now about sixty-nine years of age. He was thirty years old when he began to reign, reigned forty, and died in his seventieth year; and the transactions mentioned here are supposed to have taken place about a year before his death. Sixty-nine was not an advanced age; but he had been exhausted with various fatigues, and especially family afflictions, so that he was much older in constitution than in years.
old <0935 03117> [and stricken in years. Heb. and entered into days.]
1 Kings 4:5
son ... Nathan ......... son ... Nathan <05416 01121> [son of Nathan.]
district <05324> [the officers.]
[the principal.]
king <04428> [the king's.]
Ezra 3:13
People ................... people's ..... people <05971> [So that.]
This sight must have been very affecting; a whole people, one part weeping aloud with sorrow, the other shouting aloud for joy; and on the same occasion too, in which both sides felt an equal interest. The prophet Haggai (ch 2:1-9) comforted them on this occasion, by assuring them that the glory of this latter house should exceed that of the former, because the Lord would come to this temple, and fill it with His glory.
sound ....... sound ............... sound <06963> [the noise.]
shouting <07321> [shouted.]
sound ....... sound ............... sound <06963> [and the noise.]
