2Ch 8:1-10 | Clarke | STEP | Solomon's buildings, conquests, and officers, . He brings Pharaoh's daughter to his new-built palace, . His various sacrifices, and arrangement of the priests, Levites, and porters, . He sends a fleet to Ophir, , . Verse 1 At the end of twenty years - He employed seven years and a half in building the temple, and twelve and a half, or thirteen, in building his own house.

2 Chronicles 8:1-10

Introduction

Solomon's buildings, conquests, and officers, 2Chr 8:1-10. He brings Pharaoh's daughter to his new-built palace, 2Chr 8:11. His various sacrifices, and arrangement of the priests, Levites, and porters, 2Chr 8:12-16. He sends a fleet to Ophir, 2Chr 8:17, 2Chr 8:18.

Verse 1

At the end of twenty years - He employed seven years and a half in building the temple, and twelve and a half, or thirteen, in building his own house. - Compare this with 1Kgs 7:1. Verse 2

The cities which Huram had restored - See the note on 1Kgs 9:11. Verse 3

Hamath-zobah - "Emessa, on the river Orontes." - Calmet. Verse 4

Tadmor - Palmyra. See the note on 1Kgs 9:18, for an account of this superb city. Verse 6

All the store cities - See the note on 1Kgs 9:19. Verse 9

But of the children of Israel - See the note on 1Kgs 9:21.