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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

2 Tawarikh 2:1

Salomo memerintahkan untuk mendirikan suatu rumah bagi nama TUHAN dan suatu istana kerajaan bagi dirinya sendiri.

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

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Salomo memerintahkan untuk mendirikan suatu rumah bagi nama TUHAN dan suatu istana kerajaan bagi dirinya sendiri.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sebermula, maka maksud Sulaiman hendak membuat sebuah rumah bagi nama Tuhan dan sebuah istana akan dirinya.

Contextual Overview

1 And Solomon determined to buylde an house for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdome. 2 And Solomon tolde out threescore and ten thousande men to beare burthens, and fourescore thousand men to hewe stones in the mountayne, and three thousand and sixe hundred to ouersee them. 3 And Solomon sent to Hiram the king of Tyre, saying: As thou diddest deale with Dauid my father, and diddest send him Cedar wood to buyld him an house to dwell in [euen so deale with me:] 4 Behold I buylde an house for the name of the Lorde my God, to offer vnto him holy thinges, & to burne sweete incense, and to set shewe bread before him continually, to offer burnt sacrifices of the morning and euening on the Sabbath dayes, in the firste day of euery newe moone, and in the solempne feastes of the Lorde our God: for it is an ordinaunce to be continually kept of Israel. 5 And the house which I buylde shalbe great: for great is our God aboue all gods. 6 But who is able to buylde him an house? when that heauen and heauen aboue all heauens is not able to receaue him, what am I then that should buyld him an house? nay, but euen to burne sacrifice before him [shall this buylding be.] 7 Sende me nowe therefore a cunning man, that can worke in golde and siluer, in brasse and iron, in purple, crymosin, yelowe silke, & that can skyll to graue with the cunning men that are with me in Iuda and Hierusalem, whom Dauid my father dyd prepare. 8 Sende me also Cedar trees, pine trees, and algume trees, out of Libanon: For I wot that thy seruauntes can skill to hewe timber in Libanon: and behold my men shalbe with thyne, 9 That they may prepare me timber enough: For the house whiche I am determined to buylde, shalbe wonderfull great. 10 And behold, for the vse of thy seruauntes the cutters and hewers of timber, I haue geuen twentie thousande quarters of beaten wheat, and twentie thousand quarters of barlye, and twentie thousande battes of wine, and twentie thousande battes of oyle.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth.
Genesis 1:10
And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good.
Genesis 2:3
And God blessed the seuenth daye, & sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke whiche God ordeyned to make.
Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.
Genesis 2:5
And euery plant of the fielde before it was in the earth, and euery hearbe of the fielde before it grewe. For the Lord God had not [yet] caused it to rayne vppon the earth, neither [was there] a man to tyll the grounde.
Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.
Genesis 2:11
The name of ye first is Pison, the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah, where there is golde:
Genesis 2:13
The name of the seconde riuer is Gyhon: the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Ethiopia.
Exodus 20:11
For in sixe dayes the Lorde made heauen and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seuenth day: wherfore the Lorde blessed the seuenth day, and halowed it.
Exodus 31:17
For it is a signe betweene me and the children of Israel for euer: for in six dayes the Lorde made heauen and earth, and in the seuenth day he rested and was refreshed.

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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