1 Kings 3:25
Cut <01504> [Divide.]
This was apparently a very strange decision; but Solomon saw that the only way to discover the real mother was by the affection and tenderness should would necessarily shew to her offspring. The plan was tried, and succeeded; and it was a proof of his sound judgment, penetration, and acquaintance with the human heart, or rather, of his extraordinary and supernatural wisdom. See ver. 28. The two following instances are in some faint manner to be compared to Solomon's decision, inasmuch as they also work upon the human sympathies. Suetonius, in his Life of the emperor Claudian, tells us, that this emperor discovered a woman to be the real mother of a young man, whom she refused to acknowledge, by commanding her to marry him, the proofs being doubtful on both sides; for, rather than commit incest, she confessed the truth. Diodorus Siculus also informs us, that Ariopharnes, king of Thrace, being appointed to decided between three young men, each of whom professed to be the son of the deceased king of the Cimmerians, and claimed the succession, discovered the real son by ordering each to shoot an arrow into the dead body of the king: two of them did this without hesitation; but the real son of the deceased monarch refused.
1 Kings 16:21
divided <02505> [divided.]
1 Kings 7:35
1 Kings 10:7
believe <0539> [I believed.]
wisdom ... wealth ..... reported <02896 08052 02451> [thy wisdom and prosperity exceeded the fame. Heb. thou hast added wisdom and goodness to the fame.]
1 Kings 13:8
give <05414> [If.]
go <0935> [go.]
1 Kings 16:9
servant <05650> [his servant.]
conspired <07194> [conspired.]
drinking <08354> [drinking.]
house ....... palace <01004> [steward of. Heb. which was over.]
1 Kings 7:32
stand <04350> [joined to the base. Heb. in the base.]
1 Kings 7:31
1 Kings 1:7
collaborated <01697> [And he conferred. Heb. his words were.]
Joab <03097> [Joab.]
Abiathar <054> [Abiathar.]
supported him <0138 05826 0310> [following Adonijah helped him. Heb. helped after Adonijah.]
1 Kings 7:27
ten .... stands ... stand <06235 04350> [ten bases.]
These highly ornamental bases appear to have been square stands, or immense pedestals, for the purpose of supporting the lavers.
1 Kings 6:6
ledges <04052> [narrowed rests. or, narrowings, or rebatements.]
1 Kings 6:10
1 Kings 6:24
1 Kings 7:16
1 Kings 7:23
made <06213> [he made.]
Sea <03332 03220> [a molten sea.]
rim <08193> [the one brim to the other. Heb. his brim to his brim.]
1 Kings 7:14
son <01121 0802> [a widow's son. Heb. the son of a widow woman. tribe.]
The mother of Hiram (not the Tyrian king mentioned before, but an intelligent coppersmith, of Jewish extraction by his mother's side) in Chronicles, is said to have been of "the daughters of Dan;" and she might have been of Naphtali by her father, and of Dan by her mother; or she might originally be of the tribe of Dan, and have been first married to a man of the tribe of Naphtali; and, in either case, she might be indifferently called "of the tribe of Naphtali," or of "the daughters of Dan."
Naphtali <05321> [Naphtali.]
father <01> [his father.]
<04390> [he was filled.]
