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Louis Segond

2 Chroniques 2:1

Salomon ordonna que l'on bâtît une maison au nom de l'Eternel et une maison royale pour lui.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Liberality;   Scofield Reference Index - Sanctify;   Thompson Chain Reference - Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Palaces;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hiram or Huram;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Architecture in the Biblical Period;   Chronicles, Books of;   Huram;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;   Tyre;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Stranger;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Or Salomon ordonna de bâtir une maison au nom de l'Éternel, et pour lui une maison royale.
Darby's French Translation
Et Salomon résolut de bâtir une maison pour le nom de l'Éternel, et une maison pour son royaume.
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Or Salomon résolut de bâtir une maison au Nom de l'Eternel, et une Maison Royale.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

determined: 1 Kings 5:5

for the name: Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 28:58, 1 Kings 8:18, 1 Kings 8:20, 1 Chronicles 22:10, Matthew 6:9, Matthew 6:10

an house: 1 Kings 7:1, 1 Kings 9:1

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:1 - the house 2 Chronicles 2:4 - build 2 Chronicles 2:12 - an house 2 Chronicles 7:11 - Solomon Acts 7:47 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord,.... For the worship and service of God, and for his honour and glory, being directed, enjoined, and encouraged to it by his father David:

and an house for his kingdom; for a royal palace for him, and his successors, first the one, and then the other; and in this order they were built.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER II

Solomon determines to build a temple, 1.

The number of his workmen, 2.

Sends to Huram for artificers and materials, 3-10.

Huram sends him a favourable answer, and makes an agreement

with him concerning the labour to be done, and the wages to

be paid to his men, 11-16.

The number of strangers in the land, and how employed, 17, 18.

NOTES ON CHAP. II

Verse 2 Chronicles 2:1. A house for the name of the Lord — A temple for the worship of Jehovah.

A house for his kingdom. — A royal palace for his own use as king of Israel.


 
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