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1 Raja-raja 10:12
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Raja mengerjakan kayu cendana itu menjadi langkan untuk rumah TUHAN dan untuk istana raja, dan juga menjadi kecapi dan gambus untuk para penyanyi; kayu cendana seperti itu tidak datang dan tidak kelihatan lagi sampai hari ini.
Maka dari pada kayu cendana itu diperbuat baginda geradi akan rumah Tuhan dan akan istana baginda dan lagi kecapi dan dandi bagi segala biduanda. Maka begitu macam kayu cendana belum pernah dibawa atau dilihat orang datang kepada hari ini.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
pillars: or, rails, Heb. a prop
harps: 1 Chronicles 23:5, 1 Chronicles 25:1-31, Psalms 92:1-3, Psalms 150:3-5, Revelation 14:2, Revelation 14:3
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 9:11 - harps Revelation 18:12 - merchandise
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house,.... Or terraces, as in 2 Chronicles 9:11, causeways; and means the ascent or causeway he made from his own house to the temple; the pavement of which, as Jarchi interprets the word here, was made of the wood of these trees; or the supports of it, or rather the rails on each side, on which men might stay themselves as they passed along, as Ben Gersom; and since this ascent was admired by the queen of Sheba, it is particularly observed what wood it was made of, and from whence it came:
harps also, and psalteries for singers; these musical instruments were made of the same wood; Josephus i says of amber, and that their number was 400,000:
there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day; not in the land of Israel, neither before nor since, see 2 Chronicles 9:11.
i Antiqu. l. 8. c. 3. sect. 8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Pillars - The Hebrew word signifies ordinarily a “prop” (margin). It is generally supposed to mean in this place a “railing,” or “balustrade,” a sense which connects and harmonises the present passage with the parallel passage in Chronicles (marginal reference), where Solomon is said to have made of the almug-wood “stairs” for the temple and for his own house.
Harps - The Jewish harp כנור kı̂nnôr was of a triangular shape, and had ordinarily ten strings. It probably resembled the more ancient harp of the Assyrians, which was played with a plectrum, as was (ordinarily) the “kinnor.”
Psalteries - The psaltery, or viol. Hebrew: נבל nebel; Greek: νάβλα nabla, was a stringed instrument played with the hand; perhaps a lyre, like those on Hebrew coins, the sounding-board of which is shaped like a jug; or, perhaps, a sort of guitar, with a hollow jug-shaped body at the lower end.