1 Kings 9

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Have hallowed] I have ratified the dedication which thou hast made of it, that it may be the place where the signes of my presence, and the manifestation of my glory on earth may remaine; and that have I done within my selfe, and made it manifest unto men that I have done it, by the tokens of the cloud, and the fire descended from heaven, 2 Chronicles 7:1 [for ever] without any interruption untill the comming of the Messias. So that you doe but keep the following conditions: [mine eyes] the effects of my grace and providence, shall there bee found and felt, Deuteronomy 11:12.

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Cast out] I will withdraw my love from it, and give over the protection of it, and expose it to destruction, as a foule, and polluted thing.

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Shall hiss] in scorn and horror.

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Gave Hiram] for those Cities were as yet inhabited by pagans, Iudg. 1. 31. 32. Wherefore Galilee was called of the Gentiles, Isaiah 9:1.

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Pleased him not] and therefore he restored them to Salomon, who did people them with Israelites.

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Cabul] a name of uncertaine signification; according to some, it signifieth a durty or a sandy ground. Others say, that according to the Phenician language, it signifieth a displeasing thing, see Ioh. 19. 27.

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Sent] according to others [he did send] that is to say, yearly, as in way of tribute, which is not very likely: [talents] see Exodus 38:25.

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The reason] the Italian the manner, described, vers. 20 [the levie] of which see 1 King. 5. 13 [Millo] this was a great terrace, born up with exceeding strong walls, set upon a deep precipice or valley, which divided mount Sion from mount Moriah, over against the Temple to the Southward, see 1 King. 11. 27. 2 Chronicles 32:5.

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Gone up] Gezer was a City within the Territory of Ephraim in which the Cananites had remained since the ancient times, and were not driven out, Iosh. 16. 10. Iudg. 29. And it is likely, that either by reason of the difficulty of the enterprise, or through some connivance of the children of Israel, who had so long cohabited amongst these infidels, Solomon suffered Pharaoh to assault it, provided that the City being once taken, should bee delivered into his hands, in lew of a dowry, or over dowry with his wife.

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Tadmor] some have believed that it is the city which in ancient times was called Palmira, scituate in the confines of the Countrey toward Syria, which was a small Countrey very fruitfull, but encompassed round about with desart and sandy places: and that it is the same as is called Tamar. Ezec. 47. 19.

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Of store] for armes, and victualls, as Exodus 1:11 [for his Charrets] see 1 King. 4. 26.

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Were not able] see Iosh. 15. 63. and 17. 12 [atribute of bond service] this in the Italian is in vers. 20. besides the tribute of their goods; and Solomon herein seemeth to imitate that which was done to the Gibenites’, Iosh. 9. 23. and that these Cananites also were converted to the Lord; for otherwise it was not lawfull to make any covenant with them. Deuteronomy 7:2. Whereupon those nation were called the servants of Solomon, Ezr. 2. 55. 58 Nehemiah 11:3.

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Five hundred] 2 Chronicles 8:10. this number is but two hundred and fifty, but it is very likely that they did their service by turnes, halfe of them at a time, and that the fifty which are here over and above, were as decurions or commanders of ten over the rest. Now these Commissaries were Israelites; the other inferior ones, which were more in number, 1 King. 5. 16. were Strangers.

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Three times] namely at the solemn feasts; for he offered his daily sacrifices, besides, 2 Chronicles 8:13 [offer] by the hands of the Priests: [before th Lord] namely in the holy place, over against the Arke, the great curtaine, and another partition being between.

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Ophir] an Eastern conntrey, of the Indies, Genesis 10:29. whence came the purest and finest gold, Gen. 2. 11. 12 [foure hundred and twenty] 2 Chronicles 8:18. there are set down foure hundred and fifty; whereupon some have thought that they are severall voyags which are mentioned; for Solomon sent thither every three years, 1 King. 10. 22.