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列王纪上 9:27

希蘭派遣他船隊的僕人,就是熟悉航海的船員,與所羅門的僕人一同航海。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commerce;   Diplomacy;   Hiram;   Mariners (Sailors);   Tyre;   Thompson Chain Reference - Hiram;   Huram;   Mariners;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Commerce;   Holy Land;   Sciences;   Strangers in Israel;   Tyre;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Ophir;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Ezion-geber;   Hiram;   Palestine;   Phoenicia;   Ship;   Solomon;   Treaty;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Know, Knowledge;   Obadiah, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hiram;   Ships;   Solomon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alliances;   Hiram;   Metals;   Ophir;   Phoenice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arabah;   Ezion-Geber;   Fleet;   King, Kingship;   Merchant;   Rivers and Waterways in the Bible;   Solomon;   Transportation and Travel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alliance;   Hiram;   Israel;   Ships and Boats;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Remnant;   Ship ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hiram ;   Ship;   Shipmen;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Handicraft;   Hiram;   Solomon;   Tyre;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Alliances;   Handicraft;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Phoenicia;   Red Sea;   Ships and Boats;   Tyre;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Alliances;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
希 兰 差 遣 他 的 仆 人 , 就 是 熟 悉 泛 海 的 船 家 , 与 所 罗 门 的 仆 人 一 同 坐 船 航 海 。

Contextual Overview

15 This is the account of the forced labor Solomon used to build the Temple and the palace. He had them fill in the land and build the wall around Jerusalem. He also had them rebuild the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 16 (In the past the king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. After burning it, he killed the Canaanites who lived there. Then he gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who married Solomon. 17 So Solomon rebuilt it.) He also built the cities of Lower Beth Horon 18 and Baalath, as well as Tadmor, which is in the desert. 19 King Solomon also built cities for storing grain and supplies and cities for his chariots and horses. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and everywhere he ruled. 20 There were other people in the land who were not Israelites—Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 21 They were descendants of people that the Israelites had not destroyed. Solomon forced them to work for him as slaves, as is still true today. 22 But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites. They were his soldiers, government leaders, officers, captains, chariot commanders, and drivers. 23 These were his most important officers over the work. There were five hundred fifty supervisors over the people who did the work on Solomon's projects. 24 The daughter of the king of Egypt moved from the old part of Jerusalem to the palace that Solomon had built for her. Then Solomon filled in the surrounding land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his servants: 1 Kings 5:6, 1 Kings 5:9, 1 Kings 22:49, 2 Chronicles 20:36, 2 Chronicles 20:37

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:32 - their trade hath been to feed cattle 1 Kings 10:11 - from Ophir 2 Chronicles 8:17 - Eziongeber 2 Chronicles 8:18 - General 2 Chronicles 9:10 - brought gold Ezekiel 27:8 - wise Acts 27:27 - the shipmen

Cross-References

Genesis 9:9
"Now I am making my agreement with you and your people who will live after you,
Genesis 9:10
and with every living thing that is with you—the birds, the tame and the wild animals, and with everything that came out of the boat with you—with every living thing on earth.
Genesis 9:13
I am putting my rainbow in the clouds as the sign of the agreement between me and the earth.
Genesis 9:14
When I bring clouds over the earth and a rainbow appears in them,
Isaiah 11:10
At that time the new king from the family of Jesse will stand as a banner for all peoples. The nations will come together around him, and the place where he lives will be filled with glory.
Hosea 2:14
"So I am going to attract her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her.
Malachi 1:11
"From the east to the west I will be honored among the nations. Everywhere they will bring incense and clean offerings to me, because I will be honored among the nations," says the Lord All-Powerful.
Acts 17:14
The believers quickly sent Paul away to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.
Romans 11:12
The Jews' failure brought rich blessings for the world, and the Jews' loss brought rich blessings for the non-Jewish people. So surely the world will receive much richer blessings when enough Jews become the kind of people God wants.
Romans 15:12
And Isaiah says, "A new king will come from the family of Jesse. He will come to rule over the non-Jewish people, and they will have hope because of him." Isaiah 11:10

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Hiram sent in his navy his servants,.... And, according to 2 Chronicles 8:18, ships also but how he could send them from Tyre, which lay in the Mediterranean sea, to the above ports in the Red sea, without going a great way round, is not easy to conceive. Perhaps, as Gussetins conjectures c, Hiram had a port in the Red sea for building and sending out ships, for the sake of his eastern navigation, and from thence he sent them to Solomon's ports in the same sea; but if what R. Japhet d observes is true, that the Red sea is mixed with the sea of Joppa by means of the river Rhinocurura, as is remarked by a learned man e and who approves of the observation, and thinks it does not deserve the censure Dr. Lightfoot f passes on it. If this, I say, can be supported, the difficulty is removed: so Abarbinel asserts g, that a branch of the Nile flows into the Red sea: and another, passing through Alexandria, runs into the Mediterranean sea. This is the first navy of ships we read of; in the construction of which, as well as in the art of navigation, the Tyrians no doubt were greatly assisting to Solomon's servants, and which appears by what follows; and they are said h to be the first that made use of ships; and the invention of ships of burden, or merchant ships, such as these were, is by Pliny i ascribed to Hippus the Tyrian: and the Tyrians were famous for merchandise, which they could not carry on with foreign nations without shipping; see Isaiah 23:8, the servants Hiram sent in Solomon's navy were

shipmen that had knowledge of the sea; of sea coasts and ports, of the manner of guiding and managing ships at sea, and of the whole art of navigation, so far as then known, for which the Tyrians were famous; see Ezekiel 27:3,

with the servants of Solomon; to instruct and assist them in naval affairs, they not having been used thereunto.

c Ebr. Comment p. 628. d In Aben Ezra in Jon. ii. 5. e Texelii Phoenix, l. 3. c. 6. p. 243, 244. f Miscellanies, c. 18. vol. 1. p. 1002, 1003. g Apud Manasseh, Spes Israelis, sect. 2. p. 20. h "Prima ratem ventis credere docta Tyros", Catullus. i Nat. Hist. l. 7. c. 56.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shipmen - See 1 Kings 5:6 note. With respect to the acquaintance of the Phoenicians with this particular sea, it may be observed that they are not unlikely to have had trading settlements there, as they had in the Persian Gulf, even at this early period. The commerce with Ophir was probably an established trade, previously either in their hands or in those of the Egyptians, when Solomon determined to have a share in it. The Egyptians had navigated the other arm of the Red Sea, and perhaps its lower parts, from a much more ancient period.


 
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