1 Kings 11:20-43
<01580> [weaned.]
Hadad ................... Hadad <01908> [Hadad.]
Give ... permission to leave <07971> [Let me depart. Heb. Send me away.]
lack <02638> [But.]
permission <07971> [Nothing. Heb. Not. let me go.]
God <0430> [God.]
Hadadezer <01909> [Hadadezer.]
[Hadarezer.]
Damascus ........... city <01834> [to Damascus.]
Damascus ........... city <01834> [in Damascus.]
Damascus, called also Damesk, but generally El Sham, by the Arabs, is situated in a delightful plain, well watered by the Barrada, at the eastern foot of Antilibanus, being surrounded by the hills in the form of a triumphal arch, 136 miles N. of Jerusalem, 195 S. of Antioch, and 276 S. S. W. of Diarbekir. It is a city of the highest antiquity, being at least as ancient as the time of Abraham: it has been often captured, and several times demolished, but has always risen to splendour and dignity. The modern town is described by Maundrell as of a long, straight figure, it ends pointing nearly N. E. and S. W. It is very slender in the middle, but swells bigger at each end, especially at that to the N. E. According to Niebuhr, the walls are something less than a league and half in circumference; and the population is estimated at from 100,000 to 150,000
reign <03117> [all the days.]
loathed <06973> [abhorred.]
Jeroboam <03379> [Jeroboam.]
Ephraimite <0673> [an Ephrathite.]
Solomon's servants <08010 05650> [Solomon's servant.]
prompted <07311> [lifted up.]
Solomon <08010> [Solomon.]
closed <05462> [repaired. Heb. closed.]
gap <06556> [the breaches.]
city <05892> [the city.]
accomplished <06213> [was industrious. Heb. did work.]
leader <06485> [he made.]
work crew <05447> [charge. Heb. burden.]
tribe <01004> [the house.]
Ahijah <0281> [Ahijah.]
Shilonite <07888> [Shilonite.]
two <08147> [and they two.]
tore .... twelve <07167 08147> [rent it.]
told <0559> [thus saith.]
one <0259> [he shall.]
Jerusalem ... city <03389 05892> [for Jerusalem's sake.]
abandoned <05800> [they have forsaken.]
Astarte <06253> [Ashtoreth.]
take <03947> [Howbeit.]
David <01732> [for David.]
take <03947> [I will take.]
give <05414> [will give.]
David's <01732> [David.]
dynasty <05216> [light. Heb. lamp, or candle. the city. See on ver.]
<05315> [according.]
obey <08085> [if thou wilt.]
establish ......... did <01129> [that I will.]
establish ......... did <01129> [build the.]
humiliate <06031> [afflict.]
forever <03117> [not for ever.]
Solomon tried ....................... Solomon <08010 01245> [Solomon sought.]
Shishak <07895> [Shishak.]
This is the first time we meet with the proper name of an Egyptian king in Scripture, Pharaoh being the general appellation for all the sovereigns of that country. Some are of opinion that Shishak is the same with the celebrated Sesostris of the Greek historians; but it is probable that this king lived long before Solomon's time. Usher thinks him to be Sesonchis, and places the beginning of his reign, A.M. 3026, B.C. 978.
rest <03499> [rest.]
events .................... Annals <01697> [acts. or, words, or things.]
<03117> [time. Heb. days. forty years.]
Josephus says fourscore years; which is sufficiently absurd. Calmet supposes him to have been 18 years old when he came to the throne, and 58 when he died.
passed away <07901> [A.M. 3029. B.C. 975. slept.]
buried <06912> [buried.]
Rehoboam <07346> [Rehoboam.]
[Roboam.]
