2 Chronicles 8 · Adam Clarke
Introduction Solomon's buildings, conquests, and officers, 2Chr 8:1-10 . He brings Pharaoh's daughter to his new-built palace, 2Chr 8:11 . His various sacrifices, and arrangement of the priests, Levites, and porters, 2Chr 8:12-16 . He sends a fleet to Ophir, 2Chr 8:17 , 2Chr 8:18 . Verse 1 At the end of twenty years - He employed seven years and a half in building the temple, and twelve and a half, or thirteen, in building his own house. - Compare this with 1Kgs 7:1 .
Verse 2 The cities which Huram had restored - See the note on 1Kgs 9:11 .
Verse 3 Hamath-zobah - "Emessa, on the river Orontes." - Calmet.
Verse 4 Tadmor - Palmyra. See the note on 1Kgs 9:18 , for an account of this superb city.
Verse 6 All the store cities - See the note on 1Kgs 9:19 .
Verse 9 But of the children of Israel - See the note on 1Kgs 9:21 .
Verse 11 The daughter of Pharaoh - "And Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, Solomon brought up from the city of David to the palace which he had built for her." - T. Because the places are holy - Is not this a proof that he considered his wife to be a heathen, and not proper to dwell in a place which had been sanctified? Solomon had not yet departed from the true God.
Verse 13 Three times in the year - These were the three great annual feasts.
Verse 15 The commandment of the king - The institutions of David.
Verse 17 Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber - See the notes on 1Kgs 9:26-28 (note), for conjectures concerning Ezion-geber and Ophir.