2 Chronicles 2:16

2:16

get <03772> [we will cut.]

need <06878> [as much as thou shalt need. Heb. according to all thy need.]

Joppa. Heb. Japho.

2 Chronicles 4:2-3

4:2

big ... basin .... Sea <03332 03220> [a molten sea.]

rim ... rim <08193> [brim to brim. Heb. his brim to his brim.]

4:3

Images <01823> [And under.]

bulls .................. bulls <01241> [oxen.]

In the parallel passage of Kings, instead of {bekarim,} "oxen," we have {peka‹m,} "knops," in the form of colocynths. (See on 1 Ki 6:18, and 2 Ki 4:39;) which last is supposed by able critics to be the reading which ought to received be here; {bekarim,} "oxen," being a mistake for {peka‹m,} "knops." Houbigant, however, contends that the words in both places are right; but that {bakar} does not signify an ox here, but a large kind of grape, according to its meaning in Arabic. But Dr. A. Clarke states that {bakar,} or {bakarat,} has no such meaning in Arabic, though the phrase {aino 'lbikri,} or "ox-eye," signifies a species of black grape, very large, and of incredible sweetness; that consequently the criticism of this great man is not solid; and that the likeliest method of reconciling the two places is to suppose a change in the letters as above.

2 Chronicles 4:6

4:6

ten ... basins <03595 06235> [ten lavers.]

items .... burnt sacrifices <05930 04639> [such things as they offered for the burnt offering. Heb. the work of burnt offering.]

Sea <03220> [but the sea.]

2 Chronicles 8:18

8:18

Huram <02361> [Huram.]

[See on]

[Hiram. Ophir.]

Conjectures respecting the situation of Ophir are endless. Grotius conjectures it to be a part of Arabia called Aphar by Arrian; while Bochart and others have placed it in the island of Ceylon. Calmet supposes it to have been situated in Armenia; but his late editor places it at the head of the Indus. Josephus says that Ophir is the Indies, called the Gold country; by which he is supposed to mean Chersonesus Aurea, now Malacca, opposite Sumatra; and Le Poivre observes that the inhabitants of these places call their gold mines {ophirs.}

took .... 450 <03947 0702> [took thence.]