1 Kings 6:37
Among chronologists there is a great diversity of opinion respecting the time of the building of the temple. The Septuagint has 440 years; Glycas, 330; Josephus and Moeslinus, 592; Melchius Canus, 590; Sulpicius Severus, 588; Clemens Alexandrinus, 570; Cedrenus, 672; Codomus, 598; Vossius and Capellus, 580; Serarius, 680; Nicholas Abraham, 527; Petavius and Valtherus, 520. After all, that in the common Hebrew text is more likely to the true one, than any of the others.
1 Kings 15:1-34
mother <0517> [his mother's.]
Maacah <04601> [Maachah.]
[Michaiah the daughter of Uriel. Abishalom.]
[Absalom.]
sinful <02403> [all the sins.]
wholeheartedly ........ as <03824> [and his heart.]
David's <01732> [for David's.]
dynasty <05414 05216> [give him.]
dynasty <05216> [lamp. or, candle.]
by protecting <05975> [and to establish.]
David <01732> [David.]
involving <01697> [save only.]
war <04421> [there was war.]
Instead of Rehoboam fourteen MSS., the Arabic, and some copies of the Targum, read Abijam. The Syriac has "Abia, the son of Rehoboam;" and the Editio Princeps of the Vulgate has Abia. This is doubtless the true reading, as otherwise it would be an unnecessary repetition of ch. 14:30, and a repetition which interrupts the history of Abijah: (see 2 Ch 13:3, etc.)
rest <03499> [the rest.]
war <04421> [there was war.]
Abijah <038> [A.M. 3049. B.C. 955. Abijam.]
Asa <0609> [Asa.]
grandmother <0517> [A.M. 3049-3090. B.C. 955-914. mother's. that is, grandmother's.]
Asa <0609> [Asa.]
male cultic prostitutes <06945> [the sodomites.]
idols <01544> [all the idols.]
Maacah <04601> [Maachah.]
grandmother <0517> [his mother.]
cut down <03772> [destroyed. Heb. cut off.]
burned <08313> [and burnt.]
Valley <05158> [the brook.]
[Cedron.]
high places <01116> [the high places.]
devoted <08003> [was perfect.]
brought <0935> [he brought.]
holy <06944> [things. Heb. holy.]
Baasha <01201> [A.M. 3074. B.C. 930. Baasha.]
Ramah <07414> [Ramah.]
By building Ramah is here meant fortifying it, in order to prevent all intercourse with the kingdom of Judah, lest his subjects should cleave to the house of David: for Ramah was a city of Benjamin, situated on the confines of both kingdoms, probably on a hill, as the name imports, commanding a narrow defile between the mountains, through which lay the principal road to Jerusalem; so that a fortification being erected here, no communication could be held between the people of Israel and Judah, without Baasha's permission.
prevent <05414> [he might not suffer.]
Asa ............................. He <0609> [Asa.]
Ben Hadad <01130> [Ben-hadad.]
Damascus <01834> [Damascus.]
treaty ....................... treaty <01285> [There is a league.]
treaty ..................... Break ... treaty <01285 06565> [break thy league.]
retreat <05927> [depart. Heb. go up.]
Ijon <05859> [Ijon.]
Probably the same as Hazar-enan, a frontier town to Damascus, (Eze 48:1;) and perhaps the Inna of Coele-Syria, long. 68 degrees and a half, lat. 33 degrees, according to Ptolemy.
Dan <01835> [Dan.]
Abel Beth Maacah <062> [Abel-beth-maachah.]
Kinnereth <03672> [Cinneroth.]
Baasha <01201> [when Baasha.]
Tirzah <08656> [Tirzah.]
ordered <08085> [made a proclamation.]
exemptions <05355> [exempted. Heb. free. Geba.]
[Gaba.]
Mizpah <04709> [Mizpah.]
[Mizpeh.]
rest .... events ............................ Annals <03499 01697> [rest of all.]
a <06256> [in the time.]
buried <06912> [A.M. 3090. B.C. 914. was buried.]
Of his splendid and costly funeral we read in 2 Ch 16:14.
Jehoshaphat <03092> [Jehoshaphat.]
[Josaphat.]
Nadab <05070> [A.M. 3050-3051. B.C. 954-953. Nadab.]
king ..... ruled <04427> [began to reign. Heb. reigned.]
did evil <07451 06213> [he did evil.]
<03212> [walked.]
sin <02403> [in his sin.]
Baasha son ........... Nadab <01121 01201> [Baasha the son.]
conspired <07194> [conspired.]
Gibbethon .................. Gibbethon <01405> [Gibbethon.]
Jeroboam's <07604 03379> [he left not.]
sins <02403> [the sins.]
<03708> [by his provocation.]
recorded <03789> [A.M. 3050-3051. B.C. 954-953. are they not written.]
war <04421> [A.M. 3051-3074. B.C. 953-930. there was war.]
That is, there was a constant spirit of hostility kept up between the two kingdoms, and no doubt frequent skirmishing between the bordering parties; but there was no open war till Baasha king of Israel began to build Ramah, which was, according to 2 Ch 15:19; 16:1, in the thirty-sixth year of Asa; but according to ch. 16:8, 9, his son was killed by Zimri in the twenty-sixth year of Asa, and consequently he could not make war upon him in the thirty-sixth year of his reign. Chronologers endeavour to reconcile this, by saying that the years should be reckoned, not from the beginning of Asa's reign, but from the separation of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. We must either adopt this mode of solution, or admit that there is a mistake in some of the numbers, probably in the parallel places in Chronicles, but which we have no direct means of correcting.
year ..................... twenty-four years <06242 0702 08141> [twenty and four years.]
did evil <07451 06213> [he did evil.]
<03212> [walked.]
1 Kings 21:1-29
After <0310> [A.M. 3105. B.C. 899. after.]
Jezreel <03157> [Jezreel.]
Give .... vineyard ..................... give ...... vineyard ........... pay <05414 03754> [Give me.]
The request of Ahab, at first view, appears fair and honourable. But, as he most evidentially wished Naboth to alienate it finally, which was expressly forbidden and provided against in the law of God, (Le 25:14-28,) it was high iniquity in Ahab to tempt him to do it, and to covet it showed the depravity of his soul.
vegetable garden <03419 01588> [a garden of herbs.]
better ......... prefer <05869 02896> [seem good to thee. Heb. be good in thine eyes.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
sell <05414> [I should give.]
bitter <05620> [heavy.]
sell <05414> [I will not.]
lay down <07901> [And he laid him.]
Jezebel <0348> [Jezebel.]
attitude <07307> [Why is thy spirit.]
answered ...... talking <01696> [Because.]
Sell ............. give .............. sell <05414> [I will not give.]
<06213> [Dost thou now.]
will .... vineyard <05414 03754> [I will give thee.]
wrote <03789> [she wrote.]
leaders <02205> [the elders.]
nobles <02715> [the nobles.]
Observe ..... fasting <07121 06685> [Proclaim a fast.]
front .... people <07218 05971> [on high among. Heb. in the top of.]
villains <01121 01100> [sons of Belial.]
cursed <01288> [Thou didst blaspheme.]
Some, with Parkhurst, would render the original, {bairachta elohim wamailech,} "Thou hast blessed the gods and Molech;" a sense, however, which seems extremely forced, and is not acknowledged by any of the ancient versions, though the LXX. and Vulgate render {bairachta} by [eulogese,] {benedixit,} "blessed." It is no unusual thing for a word to have opposite senses.
Jezebel <06213 0348> [did as Jezebel.]
villains ......... villains <0582 01100> [the men of Belial.]
cursed God <0430 01288> [blaspheme God.]
king <04428> [the king.]
dragged <03318> [they carried him.]
Naboth .... stoned <05022 05619> [Naboth is stoned.]
Get <06965> [Arise.]
Ahab ....... he got up <06965 0256> [Ahab rose up.]
Samaria <08111> [which is in Samaria.]
committed murder <07523> [Hast thou killed.]
spot <04725> [In the place.]
This punishment, on Ahab's humiliation and repentance, was transferred from him to his son Jehoram, (ver. 29,) in whom it was literally accomplished: see the parallel texts.
found .... enemy ...... found <04672 0341> [Hast thou found me.]
committed <04376> [thou hast sold.]
doing <06213> [to work.]
bring <0935> [Behold.]
male <08366> [him that pisseth.]
weak <06113> [him that is shut up.]
make ... dynasty <05414 01004> [make thine.]
Israel sin <02398 03478> [made Israel to sin.]
Jezebel ..... Jezebel <0348> [Jezebel.]
Dogs <03611> [the dogs.]
Shocking as this must appear to minds that have been humanized by the kindly influence of Christianity, we still find similar instances in the accounts of modern travellers. Mr. Bruce says, that when at Gondar, "the bodies of those killed by the sword were hewn to pieces and scattered about the streets, being denied burial. I was miserable, and almost driven to despair, at seeing my hunting dogs, twice let loose by the carelessness of my servants, bringing into the court-yard the heads and arms of slaughtered men, and which I could no way prevent, but by the destruction of the dogs themselves."
<02426> [wall. or, ditch.]
ones ... die <04191> [that dieth.]
Ahab <0256> [But there.]
firmly committed ... doing <04376 06213> [sell himself.]
Jezebel <0348> [whom Jezebel.]
urged <05496> [stirred up. or, incited.]
was ... wicked ... worshiped ... disgusting <08581 03966> [very abominably.]
<06213> [according to.]
tore <07167> [he rent.]
sackcloth ..... slept ... sackcloth <08242 07901> [lay in sackcloth.]
walked ... dejected <0328 01980> [went softly.]
Have ... noticed ... Ahab <07200 0256> [Seest thou.]
Ahab <0256> [Ahab.]
bring <0935> [I will not.]
disaster on .... during ... lifetime <07451 03117> [the evil in.]
on .... during ... lifetime ........ son <03117 01121> [in his son's days.]
