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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

历代志上 22:2

大衛預備了大量的鐵,做門扇上的釘子和鉤子;又預備了大量的銅,多得無法可稱;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Stones;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Strangers in Israel;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Stranger;   Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - David;   Jerusalem;   Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Neighbor;   Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Proselyte;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Proselytes;   Solomon;   Solomon's Servants;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alien;   Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Masons;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Temple;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Stranger;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoniram;   Mason;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aliens;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
大 卫 吩 咐 聚 集 住 以 色 列 地 的 外 邦 人 , 从 其 中 派 石 匠 凿 石 头 , 要 建 造   神 的 殿 。

Contextual Overview

1 David said, "The Temple of the Lord God and the altar for Israel's burnt offerings will be built here." 2 So David ordered all foreigners living in Israel to gather together. From that group David chose stonecutters to cut stones to be used in building the Temple of God. 3 David supplied a large amount of iron to be used for making nails and hinges for the gate doors. He also supplied more bronze than could be weighed, 4 and he supplied more cedar logs than could be counted. Much of the cedar had been brought to David by the people from Sidon and Tyre. 5 David said, "We should build a great Temple for the Lord , which will be famous everywhere for its greatness and beauty. But my son Solomon is young. He hasn't yet learned what he needs to know, so I will prepare for the building of it." So David got many of the materials ready before he died.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the strangers: 1 Kings 9:20, 1 Kings 9:21, 2 Chronicles 2:17, 2 Chronicles 8:7, 2 Chronicles 8:8, Isaiah 61:5, Isaiah 61:6, Ephesians 2:12, Ephesians 2:19-22

masons: 1 Chronicles 14:1, 2 Samuel 5:11, 1 Kings 5:17, 1 Kings 5:18, 1 Kings 6:7, 1 Kings 7:9-12, 2 Kings 12:12, 2 Kings 22:6, Ezra 3:7

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 22:15 - hewers and workers of stone and timber 1 Chronicles 28:2 - had made ready

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, Sarah your wife will have a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him to be an agreement that continues forever with all his descendants.
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Don't be troubled about the boy and the slave woman. Do whatever Sarah tells you. The descendants I promised you will be from Isaac.
Genesis 22:9
and came to the place God had told him about. Abraham built an altar there. He laid the wood on it and then tied up his son Isaac and laid him on the wood on the altar.
Genesis 22:10
Then Abraham took his knife and was about to kill his son.
Genesis 22:12
The angel said, "Don't kill your son or hurt him in any way. Now I can see that you trust God and that you have not kept your son, your only son, from me."
Genesis 22:16
and said, "The Lord says, ‘Because you did not keep back your son, your only son, from me, I make you this promise by my own name:
Judges 11:31
I will give you as a burnt offering the first thing that comes out of my house to meet me when I return from the victory. It will be the Lord 's."
Judges 11:39
After two months she returned to her father, and Jephthah did to her what he had promised. Jephthah's daughter never had a husband. From this came a custom in Israel that
2 Kings 3:27
Then the king of Moab took his oldest son, who would have been king after him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. So there was great anger against the Israelites, who left and went back to their own land.
2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. This was where the Lord had appeared to David, Solomon's father. Solomon built the Temple on the place David had prepared on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel,.... The proselytes, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions; that is, proselytes of the gate, who submitted to the seven precepts of Noah, were admitted to dwell in the Cities of Israel, see Genesis 9:4 and these were ordered to be got together to be employed in building the temple, and making preparations for it; and that partly because they were better artificers than the Israelites, who were chiefly employed in husbandry and cattle, and partly that the Israelites, who were freemen, might not be put to hard service; but chiefly this was for the sake of a mystery in it, denoting that the Gentiles would be concerned in building the spiritual house and church of God, the temple was a type and figure of, see Zechariah 6:15

and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God; to dig them out of the quarries, and fit them for the building.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The strangers - i. e., the aliens the non-Israelite population of the land. Compare 2 Chronicles 2:17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 22:2. The strangers that were in the land — Those who had become proselytes to the Jewish religion, at least so far as to renounce idolatry, and keep what were called the seven Noahic precepts. These were to be employed in the more servile and difficult parts of the work: see on 1 Kings 9:21. For the account of building the temple, see 1 Kings 5:1-28, and the notes there.


 
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