2 Chronicles 4:3-4
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.
stood <05975> [It stood.]
Three .... three ... three .... three <07969> [three.]
2 Chronicles 4:12-13
two .... two <08147> [To wit.]
bowl-shaped .......... bowl-shaped <01543> [the pommels.]
four hundred <03967 0702> [four hundred.]
pillar <05982> [pillars. Heb. face of the pillars.]
2 Chronicles 9:21
large merchant ships .................. port <08659> [Tarshish.]
Bochart thinks this Tarshish was probably the promontory Cory, on the north of the island of Ceylon, which, according to him, was the land of Ophir. That it was name of a place in the East Indies, seems probable from the articles brought thence, and also from the ships sent thither being built at Ezion-geber, on the Red Sea; though Michaelis supposes that the fleet coasted along the shore of Africa, doubling the Cape of Good Hope, and came to Tartessus, in Spain, and thence back again the same way; that this accounts for their three years' voyage out and home; and that Spain and the coasts of Africa furnish all the commodities which they brought back.
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[Tharshish. ivory. or, elephants' teeth. peacocks.]
{Tukkeeyim} is rendered {taysin} in the Targum, [taonon,] in the Alexandrian MS. of the LXX., and {pavos,} "peacocks," in the Vulgate; with which the Syriac, Arabic, and Rabbins agree. This derives confirmation from the fact, that the peacock is called in Malabaric, {Togei.}
2 Chronicles 14:1
passed away <07901> [A.M. 3049. B.C. 955. slept.]
Asa <0609> [Asa.]
2 Chronicles 18:2
after ... years <08141 07093> [after certain years. Heb. at the end of years.]
went down <03381> [he went.]
Ahab .... Ahab <0256> [Ahab.]
persuaded <05496> [persuaded.]
Ramoth <07433> [Ramoth-gilead.]
2 Chronicles 21:19
make ... bonfire <06213 08316> [made no.]
2 Chronicles 34:3
young <05288> [A.M. 3370. B.C. 634. while he.]
seek <01875> [to seek.]
ridding <02891> [purge.]
high places <01116> [the high places.]
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