1 Raja-raja 10:12

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

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.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
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.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
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.

Contextual Overview

¹ And the queene of Saba hearing the fame of Solomon (concerning the name of the Lord) came to proue him with harde questions. ² And she came to Hierusalem with a verie great trayne, with camels that bare sweete odours, and gold exceeding much, & precious stones: And she came to Solomon, and communed with him of al that was in her heart. ³ And Solomon declared vnto her all her questions, so that there was not one thing hyd from the king whiche he expounded not vnto her. ⁴ And the queene of Saba considered al Solomons wysdome, & the house that he had buylded, ⁵ And the meate of his table, and the sitting of his seruauntes, the order of his ministers & their apparell, & his drinke, and his burnt sacrifices that he offred in the house of the Lorde: and she was astonied. ⁶ And she sayde vnto the king: It was a true word that I hearde in myne owne land of thy sayinges, & of thy wisdome. ⁷ Howbeit I beleued it not, till I came & sawe it with myne eyes: And beholde, the one halfe was not tolde me: for thy wysdome and prosperitie exceedeth the fame which I hearde of thee. ⁸ Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy seruauntes whiche stand euer before thee, and heare thy wysdome. ⁹ Blessed be the Lorde thy God, whiche loued thee, to set thee on the seate of Israel, because the Lorde loued Israel for euer, & made thee king to do equite and righteousnes. ¹⁰ And she gaue the king sixe score talentes of golde, and of sweete odours exceeding much, and precious stones: There came no more suche aboundaunce of sweete odours, as the queene of Saba gaue to king Solomon.

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.