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Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy and not sacrifice;
and the knowledge of God more than your burnt offerings.
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1A0I CHRONICLES CHAPTER 22
My commentary at the end of I Chronicles 21 closed with my saying in reference to the last verse of that Chapter, which reads: I Chronicles 21:30 But David could not go before it (the Mosaic Tabernacle) to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the Angel of the LORD. —> that the first verse of this Chapter supported my claim that “David, seeing Father’s Angel standing between he and Gibeon indicated to David that Father was saying that he—David and His—Father’s—People, Israel—was—were—no longer to go to Gibeon and offer sacrifices and Worship Father there; that Jerusalem was now the only authorized place to offer sacrifices and Worship Father.” In reality, I believe the first verse of this Chapter should have been included and belonged at the end of I Chronicles 21.
Anyway, as we progressed through the Chapter, we read of David’s sin of listening to satan have him number the People of Israel. This numbering of the men of Israel was given in a military sense; however, as I stated, it was Father Who gave the permission, but it was satan’s suggestion that moved David to take this numbering or census of all the men of Israel. Remember, it has always been Father Who gave our forefathers the victory; so why then, is this census being taken? Before, David had taken only the number of people that he needed, and Father prepared the way for the victory. Sometimes it only took a few men to destroy an entire army. We saw in The Book of Joshua; The Book of Judges and in several places in The Books of Samuel that one man would kill hundreds of men in one place, for Father touched that person and gave him the strength and wisdom to defeat his enemies. It was satan who David listened to and caused him to want to know how many men in his army he had in his army, and brethren, you always want to be very careful as to who you are listening to, and to the instructions which that person is giving you. Our adversary satan likes nothing better than to whisper sweet things which sound “oh so good,” into our ears and mind in order to deceive us into going against Father’s instructions. He will play mind games with us if we allow him to, just as he was doing here with David.
It was satan’s pride which caused his fall, and he will use your pride to try to give you the big head and cause you to also fall. The deceiver, satan, was trying to tell David that he didn’t need Father, for he has a vast number of men in order to do the job himself. Sadly, David listened to satan, and his pride built to the point of doing exactly as satan instructed him to do. David was not relying on Father for his protection, but he mustered up an army of hundreds of thousands, and turned to that army for his strength. David should have learned by this time that it was Father Who gave him the victory, but, sadly, he messed up again. Don’t be too hard on him brethren, as we too fall, over and over again.
Because David left Father out of the equation so to speak, and instead allowed satan to tempt him, Father imposed a correction, whereby David had to choose one of three choices: either a famine of three years, three months fleeing his enemies, or three days pestilence in all the land of Israel. All three of these punishments would mean that there would be many, many deaths in Israel. Don’t forget brethren that, Father also issued this correction on His People because, the People themselves had basically rejected Him when they rejected His anointed in order to follow his son Absalom when he rebelled against his father. David turned the choice over to Father and allowed Him to choose which punishment upon the Nation. Father sent a pestilence throughout the land which though it was supposed to last three days, Father stopped it after only half a day. Even in that shortened time, 70,000 People lost their lives and returned Home to Him.
With the correction having been imposed and now behind them, it is now time to move forward. For David and the Nation, that means that it is time to start preparing for Father’s Temple to be built. It will not be David who builds it, no, it’ll be Israel’s third man-king, David’s son, Solomon. David will only get to prepare the Nation and the site for the event. He’ll also start to gather the many needed different supplies.
With that introduction being said, let’s go to Father and ask Him for His Blessings on our Study of His Word: “Father, we come to you right now to thank you for inviting us to Your table in order that we might be able to partake of and receive Your Spiritual Meat, and Father, as we prepare to dine on the sustenance which sustains our inner man, we ask that You Oh LORD open our ears and eyes, that we might be able to hear and see your Truths, open our hearts and minds and prepare us in order that we may receive Your Truth. We Pray for Your Understanding of Your Word, we seek Your Knowledge in Your Word, and most importantly Father, we Pray for and desire Your Wisdom from Your Word, in Jesus’ Precious name we Pray, thank You Father, Amen.”
I Chronicles 10:1-
II Chronicles 36:21
HISTORY (UP TO THE
CAPTIVITY.) (Division.)
11:1-II Chronicles 36:21
THE HOUSE OF David
ESTABLISHED. (Division.)
11:1-29:25 EVENTS IN
DETAIL. (Introversion.)
11:1-29:30 DAVID. (Division.)
17:1-22:19 The Temple.
David’s preparation for
it.
17:1-22:19 THE TEMPLE.
DAVID’S PREPARATION
FOR IT. (Introversion.)
21:1-22:1 SITE OF TEMPLE
PREDICATED. (Alternation.)
22:1 Site of Temple.
I Chronicles 22:1 Then David (loving; or, well-beloved) (Daw-veedי) said, “This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.” —> This is the house of the LORD God=The place where Grace had been manifested—i.e., where the pestilence that Father had brought about the Nation in I Chronicles 21:14-15 had been stopped—was the place alone where True Worship could be offered. From the second year after Father brought our forefathers out of Egypt, the tent, or Tabernacle—mish-kawnי in Hebrew—had been the only place of worship for Father’s People. It was where His altar was, and it was also were His Ark of the Covenant was placed — inside the Holy of Holies. The Mercy Seat was mounted on top of the Ark of the Covenant, and once a year, the High Priest would enter into the Holy of Holies in order to stand before the Mercy Seat of Father giving the necessary offering which Father commanded and demanded under the Law.
LORD=The Tetragrammaton יהוה, YHVH—from Dr. Bullinger’s Companion Bible Appendices: YHVH—or YAHVEH, the sacred and personal name of Father.
God=ELOHIM—from Dr. Bullinger’s Companion Bible Appendices: ELOHIM—the genus God.
Altar of the Burnt Offering=The description of the Altar of the Burn Offering is found in Exodus 27:1-8. It was the Altar where the יOlah in Hebrew, was offered. The Burnt Offering, “so called from the Hiphil of the verb יalah, to cause to ascend [as the flame and smoke ascend by burning]. In Greek holocausta, which conveys its meaning as being wholly burnt. Father YHVH begins with the Burnt Offering and ends with the Sin Offering: we, in our approach, begin with the Sin Offering and end with the Burnt Offering.”. The Burnt Offering—H5930, - עֹלָה or עוֹלָה, - ‛ôlâh or ‛ôlâh, pronounced – o-lawי or o-lawי, and means: Feminine active particle of H5927; a step or (collectively stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke): - ascent, Burnt Offering (sacrifice), go up to. See also H5766. Total KJV occurrences: 288.—is one of the oldest and most common offerings. The first recorded instance is in Genesis 8:20 when Noah offers Burnt Offerings after the flood. Father ordered Abraham to offer his son, Isaac, in a Burnt Offering in Genesis 22, and then provided a ram as a replacement. Leviticus 1 and 6:8-13 describe the traditional Burnt Offering. For the Burnt Offering, our forefathers brought a bull, sheep, or goat, a male with no defect, and it was killed at the entrance to the Tabernacle. The animal’s blood was drained, and the Priest sprinkled blood around the altar. The animal was skinned and cut it into pieces, the intestines and legs washed, and the Priest burned the pieces over the altar all night. The Priest received the skin as a fee for his help. A turtledove or pigeon could also be sacrificed, although they weren’t skinned. A person could give a Burnt Offering at any time. It was a sacrifice of general atonement—an acknowledgement of the sin nature and a request for renewed relationship with Father.
David=I could spend days discussing David and his life; literally, an entire Book—II Samuel—covered most of what David accomplished as king of Israel. David was a man after Father’s own heart, and though he made a few mistakes, David always tried to please Father in all that he did; therefore, Father loved David; so much so that, He chose David as the Line to bring forth the Branch, The Bright Morning Star, Immanuel\Emmanuel, God in the Flesh: Jesus. Even though Father chose David, it doesn’t mean that David never sinned as, David indeed did sin. He committed adultery with the wife of one of his soldiers; and, then had that soldier murdered by ordering his being put on the front lines of the hottest part of the battle. David was not perfect; however, he was obedient in the end; and, in the end, he left judgment in Father’s hand. All the other kings of Judah and some of the kings of Israel will be judged; or, compared to David; and, the one thing which can always be said of David, is that, not one time had David ever fallen away into idolatry. But, what else can we take away from David? If you sin: repent to Father and then leave the correction and judgment in Father’s hands. † While researching the etymology of the name David we find that most Bible translators and commentator will render the name David as Beloved; but, as always with important names, the etymology of the name David is disputed. However, we can’t help noticing the distinct similarity of this name with the Hebrew root דוד (dwd) that yields דוד (dod), generally meaning beloved. This word is also the Hebrew word for uncle — I Chronicles 27:32, for instance, speaks of דוד־דויד, or “David’s uncle”: The distinct difference between the name דוד (David) and the word דוד (dod) is that in the name David the letter waw counts for a consonant, while in the word dod it counts for a vowel. A consonant and a vowel are completely different entities and they’ll never mean the same, no matter how many times you write them with the same symbol (in this case the waw). If the name was meant to mean Beloved, then it was perhaps given to David after he became king and beloved. In his father’s household he wasn’t much of a hit, after all. But then, if this name was meant to mean Beloved, why hasn’t history given us the tales of King Dod? Harris Archer Waltke (HAW) Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament lists David under dod but admits that “the name is conjectured to come from dod, beloved, but the etymology is uncertain. It has been compared with the Mari term dawidum, Lsquo;leader,’ but this too is unsure.” Brown Driver Briggs (BDB) Theological Dictionary too lists the name David under the derivations of the root dod, but also makes mention of A.H. Sayce’s note of a sun-god named Dodo — דודה — which was worshipped in East-Jordan Israel. Zion, now known as the city of David, was then apparently known as the city of the god Dod. But where Dod went the way of the dodo, king David is eternally remembered as the beloved king. And this is curious for more than one reason. But whatever the reason, Israel’s identity of a Kingdom is associated with a king whose name is not a regular Hebrew word, but which is spelled identical to the word for Beloved, and pronounced completely different. Perhaps, and this is a wild guess, the name Dod was altered to David to charge it with the tone of the word דוה (dawa), meaning infirmity.. † Now from the Strong’s Concordance, where we find that it is Hebrew word number: H1732, - דּוד, or דּויד, - dâvid, or dâvı̂yd, pronounced - daw-veed’, or daw-veed’ and means: From the same as H1730; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse: - David. Total KJV occurrences: 1076.. † Now from the Smith’s Bible Dictionary, where we find that the description of David in the Smith’s Bible Dictionary is extensive and too long to post here; so, I’ll instead just post the link to it: David.
22:2-29:25 THE
RESIGNATION OF DAVID.
(Introversion and Alternation.)
22:2-9 Intention to build
the Temple.
22:2-9 INTENTION TO
BUILD THE TEMPLE.
(Introversions.)
22:2 David’s command
about strangers.
22:2 Workmen.
I Chronicles 22:2 And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel (he will rule as YAH; or, the prince that prevails with YAH) (Yis-raw-aleי) (secondary map); and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. —> These “strangers” that were in the land of Israel are mainly those from other nations our forefathers had defeated and more recently, those from II Samuel 12:31 and its parallel I Chronicles 20:3, i.e., the Ammonites from Rabbah who it was said of David that he “put them under saws,” and “under harrows of iron” and “under axes,” in other words, forcing them into the slave labor of building the kingdom which we’re reading of here. We read in II Chronicles 2:17-18 that the total number of these foreigners was: II Chronicles 2:17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred (153,600). [2:18] And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens (70,000), and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain (80,000), and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work (3,600). —> Quite the workforce to have access to. Brethren, don’t confuse these “strangers” with the nethinims who were already working under\within the priesthood being the drawers of water and hewers of wood for Father’s altar that we read of in Joshua 9 and then having taken over the scribeship of Father’s Word in I Chronicles 2:55. These foreigners are totally separate from the nethinims.
Set masons to hew wrought stones=For the stones which were used in the building of Father’s Temple, we read in I Kings 6:7 that no hammer was used at the Temple site: I Kings 6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. —> We read in I Kings 5:17, that all the stones were cut, fashioned, and dressed off-site at the quarry, prior to being brought to the construction site. Once brought to the site, all these great stones were fitted into place without the use of an hammer, axe or any other tool, that way, there were no sounds of any tool being used at the building site.
Israel=The kingdom of Israel consists and comprises of both a People, and a territory. The People were and are our Father, our Creator ELOHIM’s Chosen People. Chosen only in the sense that they were the lineage through which He Himself will\would be born in the flesh as His Only Begotten Son: Jesus Christ. That lineage began with Adam, then his son Seth, down to Noah, then his son Shem, down to Abram, then his son Isaac, and the his son Jacob whom Father renamed Israel, on to his two sons Levi—actually, Levi’s son Amram amd his son Aaron and his descendants—and Judah—and his son Pharez, then his son Hezron, then his son Aram, then his Amminadab, then his son Nashon, then his son Salmon, then his son Boaz, then his son Obed, then his son Jesse, then his son David. Both lineages culminated and terminated at Mary—cousin to Elisabeth, wife of Zacharias, whom the Holy Spirit overshadowed while she was yet a virgin, and after Michael the arch angel had told would come to pass. When Father had changed Jacob’s name to Israel and then he had his twelve sons—Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Napthali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin—who went into captivity to Egypt for those 200 plus years, when Father led them out by the hand of Moses, they became known collectively as, the House of Israel. As for the territory, see the links of the 2 maps in the verse to understand the land mass which comprised the territory of Israel. † As to the etymology of the name Israel, according to Abarim Publications, the meaning of the name Israel is not clear; but, yet, it’s huge. The meaning of Israel is not singular and distinct; but, consists of many nuances and facets and bulges with theological significance. Judging from Genesis 32:28, the form ישראל (Israel) appears to be a compilation of two elements. The first one is the noun אל (EL), the common abbreviation of ELOHIM—from Dr. Bullinger’s Companion Bible Appendices: ELOHIM—the genus God. EL is essentially the Almighty, though the word is never so rendered. EL is ELOHIM in all His strength and power. It is rendered “God” as ELOHIM is, but EL is God the Omnipotent. ELOHIM is God the Creator putting His omnipotence into operation: The second part of our name appears to be related to the verb שרה (sara): However, even though Genesis 32:28 uses the enigmatic verb שרה — which is assumed to mean to struggle but which might something else entirely — it’s by no means certain that this verb is etymologically linked to our name Israel. When we say, “we named him Bob because that seemed like a good idea,” we certainly don’t mean to say that the name Bob means “good idea.” The first part of the name Israel looks a lot like the verb שרה that explains this name; but, this apparent link is possibly a mere case of word-play. In fact, the name Israel may have more to do with the verb ישר (yashar), meaning to be upright. Note that the difference between the letter שׂ (sin) as found in the name ישׂראל (Israel) and the letter שׁ (shin) as found in the verb ישׁר (yashar) didn’t exist in Biblical times and as it was invented more than a thousand years after the Bible was written: For a meaning of the name Israel, New Open Bible Study Edition (NOBSE) Study Bible Name List, Brown Driver Briggs (BDB) Theological Dictionary and Alfred Jones (Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names) unanimously go with the verb שרה of which the meaning is unsure. Undeterred, NOBSE reads God Strives, and BDB proposes El Persisteth or El Persevereth. Alfred Jones figures that the mysterious verb שרה might very well mean “to be princely,” and assumes that the name Israel consists of a future form of this verb, which hence would mean to become princely. And so Jones interprets the name Israel with He Will Be Prince With God.. † Now from the Strong’s Concordance, where we find that it is Hebrew word number: H3478, - ישׂראל, - Yiśrâ'êl, pronounced - Yis-raw-ale’, and means: From H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: - Israel. Total KJV occurrences: 2,576.. † Now from the Smith’s Bible Dictionary: The description of Israel in the Smith’s Bible Dictionary is extensive and too long to post here; so, I’ll instead just post the link to it: Israel.
22:3 Preparation.
I Chronicles 22:3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight; —> Not only were there no tools to be used at the site of the construction of Father’s Temple, but no iron or other metals either were in the construction of the Tabernacle either. The iron nails which were used were in the gates and doors of the inner and outter courts.
Brass in abundance without weight=In other words, they had so much brass that, they didn’t bother weighing it.
22:4 Preparation.
I Chronicles 22:4 Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians (catching fish; fishery) (tsee-doneי) and they of Tyre (a rock; or, a rock) (tso-reeי) brought much cedar wood to David.
—> Both David and Solomon had made an ally of, and a contract with, Hiram, the king of Tyre to provide cedar trees\wood, dressed stone and other materials and man-power for the Temple and other buildings in Jerusalem.
At the mention name Hiram and the city of Tyre, the hairs on the back of your neck should start to raise. Hiram’s father was a Phoenician; however, as can be read in I Kings 7:13-14 and II Chronicles 2:14—though there he is called Huram—his mother was of the Tribe of Naphtali, thus making him part Israelite—but, his being the king of Tyre, we know Tyre means “rock” and is a type for satan. It is this relationship which assists us in understanding how and why there was a bond and friendship between he and David, and also how the Phoenicians and the Israelites always enjoyed a peaceful and friendly relationship, whereas Israel and the Canaanitish peoples did not, even though they were of Adamic descent, i.e., descended from Noah’s son Ham.
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Zidonians=Also known as Sidon, Sidonians, and Zidon — they all share the same Strong’s Concordance Hebrew word number: H6722, which is derived from: H6721. The reason for the different spelling, i.e., Zidon or Sidon is because with the “Z” is the Hebrew spelling whereas, with the “S” is the Greek Old Testament—otherwise known as the Septuagint—spelling. † It was Noah’s grandson—or step-son depending how you want to look at it. Canaan was Noah’s wife’s son with her own son—with Noah: Ham. We read in Genesis 10:15 that “And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn...”. Sidon or Zidon’s descendants, are the Sidonians or Zidonians. Sidon when he separated from his family, founded the land known after his name: Zidon or Sidon. † Zidon was a fishery, a town on the Mediterranean coast, about 25 miles north of Tyre. It was the first home of the Phoenicians—it is not certain what the Phoenicians called themselves in their own language; it appears to have been Kenaʿani (Akkadian: Kinahna), or Canaanites. In Hebrew the word kenaʿani Strong’s Hebrew word number: H3669 has the secondary meaning of “merchant,” a term that well characterizes the Phoenicians—on the coast of Palestine, and from its extensive commercial relations became a “great” city Joshua 11:8; 19:28. It was the mother city of Tyre. It lay within the lot of the tribe of Asher, but was never subdued Judges 1:31. The Zidonians long oppressed Israel Judges 10:12. From the time of David its glory began to wane, and Tyre, its virgin daughter Isaiah 23:12, rose to its place of pre-eminence. Solomon entered into a matrimonial alliance with the Zidonians, and thus their form of idolatrous worship found a place in the land of Israel I Kings 11:1,33. This city was famous for its manufactures and arts, as well as for its commerce I Kings 5:6; I Chronicles 22:4; Ezekiel 27:8. It is frequently referred to by the prophets Isaiah 23:24,12; Jeremiah 25:22; 27:3; 47:4; Ezekiel 27:8; Ezekiel 28:21,22; 32:30; Joel 3:4. Our Lord Jesus visited the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, Matthew 15:21; Mark 7:24; Luke 4:26; and from this region many came forth to hear him preaching Mark 3:8; Luke 6:17. From Sidon, at which the ship put in after leaving Caesarea, Paul finally sailed for Rome Acts 27:34. † The etymology and original meaning of the name Zidon is unknown, formally spoken, but a Hebrew audience would probably tie the name Sidon to the root group צוד (sud): The letter nun, upon which this name ends, may be a remnant of the waw-nun couple that creates a localized or personified manifestation of the verb (Place Of Such And Such; Guy That Does Such And Such). Because Sidon is a coastal city, most of the hunting done there would be fishing, and so new Open Bible Study Edition (NOBSE) Study Bible Name List and Zodhiates’ Complete Word Study Dictionary read Fishery. Jones’ Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names reads Fishing, and enthusiastically adds Plenty Of Fish.. † Now from the Strong’s Concordance, where we find that it is Hebrew word number: H6722, - צִידֹנִי or צִדֹנִי, - tsı̂ydônı̂y or tsidônı̂y, pronounced – tsee-do-neeי or tsee-do-neeי, and means: Partial from H6721; catching fish; fishery; a Tsidonian or inhabitant of Tsidon: - Sidonian, of Sidon, Zidonian. Total KJV occurrences: 15.. † Now from the Smith’s Bible Dictionary, where we read: “An ancient and wealthy city of Phoenicia, on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, less than twenty English miles to the north of Tyre. Its Hebrew name, Tsidon, signifies fishing or fishery. Its modern name is Saida. It is situated in the narrow plain between the Lebanon and the sea. From a biblical point of view this city is inferior in interest to its neighbor Tyre; though in early times Sidon was the more influential of the two cities. This view is confirmed by Zidonians being used as the generic name of Phoenicians or Canaanites Joshua 13:6, Judges 18:7. From the time of Solomon to the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar Zidon is not often directly mentioned in the Bible, and it appears to have been subordinate to Tyre. When the people called “Zidonians” are mentioned, it sometimes seems that the Phoenicians of the plain of Zidon are meant I Kings 5:6; 11:1,5,33; 16:31; II Kings 23:13. All that is known are respecting the city is very scanty, amounting to scarcely more than that one of its sources of gain was trade in slaves, in which the inhabitants did not shrink from selling inhabitants of Palestine and that it was governed by kings Jeremiah 25:22; 27:3. During the Persian domination Zidon seems to have attained its highest point of prosperity; and it is recorded that, toward the close of that period, it far excelled all other Phoenician cities in wealth and importance. Its prosperity was suddenly cut short by an unsuccessful revolt against Persia, which ended in the destruction of the town, B.C. 351. Its king, Tennes had proved a traitor and betrayed the city to Ochus, king of the Persians; the Persian troops were admitted within the gates, and occupied the city walls. The Zidonians, before the arrival of Ochus, had burnt their vessels to prevent any one’s leaving the town; and when they saw themselves surrounded by the Persian troops, they adopted the desperate resolution of shutting themselves up with their families, and setting fire each man to his own house. Forty thousand persons are said to have perished in the flames. Zidon however, gradually recovered from the blow, and became again a flourishing town. It is about fifty miles distant from Nazareth, and is the most northern city which is mentioned in connection with Christ’s journeys. (The town Saida still shows signs of its former wealth, and its houses are better constructed and more solid than those of Tyre, many of them being built of stone; but it is a poor, miserable place, without trade or manufactures worthy of the name. The city that once divided with Tyre the empire of the seas is now almost without a vessel. Silk and fruit are its staple products. Its population is estimated at 10,000,700 of whom are Moslems, and the rest Catholics, Maronites and Protestants. --McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia. There is a flourishing Protestant mission here. --ED.).”.
Tyre=There were three periods in which the city of Tyre figured prominently in the history our forefathers in Father’s Word and once when it figures importantly prophetically. The first two historical periods pretty much coincide and run during the second and third man kings of the House of Israel: kings David and his son Solomon. During that time, the king of Tyre—king Hiram, who was also called Huram—was instrumental in building the kingdom of the Nation of the House of Israel, how and why? Because, because of his friendship with David and Solomon, he provided the building materials, i.e. great, cut stones, algum, cedar and fir trees, and large quantities of precious metals, plus he also provided many skilled laborers for the effort. One hundred years after Solomon, his great, great, great, great, great grand-son Ahab reigned and ruled over the Nation. Between the time of Solomon—and because during his later years wherein he married many foreign women and allowed them to bring in their false gods to worship in the Nation—and the time of Ahab, the Nation had only known immoral, unrighteous and unjust living—pretty much like was ushered into our Nation of the United States of America during the presidency of barrack obama. So much so that, Ahab married Jezebel, the daughter of ethbaal the king of Tyre. As her father was king of Tyre and a worshiper of baal, Jezebel brought the worship of baal upon the Nation, she also brought in 400 baal priests and 450 baal prophets to ensure all the People of the Nation served baal. Father used Jehu to put an end to Jezebel and the worship of baal in the Nation. † More importantly, Father in Ezekiel 28 details for us that in the first earth age, Father called satan “the king of Tyre,” of course, Tyre in the Hebrew tongue means “rock,” and our adversary satan is the false rock. It is also in that Chapter that Father chronicles for us that satan’s status as the protecting cherub who protected His Mercy Seat in the First Earth Age, who became prideful and decided he no longer wanted to protect Father’s Seat of Judgment but, he himself wanted to sit in that seat as god, thinking he could oust his Creator—how foolish. We read in Revelation 12 that, when satan rebelled, he through influence, drew 1/3 of Father’s Children with him in his rebellion which brought about Father destroying the First Earth Age. Again, in Ezekiel 28, Father details what satan’s end will be—the Lake of Fire. † The etymology of name Tyre. We find that the Semitic, and thus original, name for Tyre is pronounced Zor or Zur. In Biblical Hebrew this name looks exactly like words coming off the צור and צרר root-groups. More specifically, scholars assume that the Hebrew name for Tyre, צור, equals the regular word צור (sur) meaning rock (Jeremiah 21:13, Job 14:18). In Deuteronomy 32:31 the author compares the gods of the nations to the living God and says, “Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock”: For a meaning of the Hebrew name for Tyre, Jones’ Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names reads Rock. New Open Bible Study Edition (NOBSE) Study Bible Name List does not translate.. † Now from the Strong’s Concordance, where we find that it is Hebrew word number: H6865, - צר or צור, - tsôr or tsôr, pronounced - tsore or tsore, and means: The same as H6864; a rock; Tsor, a place in Palestine: - Tyre, Tyrus. Total KJV occurrences: 42.. † Now from the Smith’s Bible Dictionary: The description in the Smith’s Bible Dictionary is extensive and too long to post here so, I’ll just post a link to it: Tyre, Now from the American Tract Society Bible Dictionary of which I’ll again just post the link: Tyre or Tyrus.
22:5 Solomon. Youth.
22:5 The glory of the
house.
I Chronicles 22:5 And David said, “Solomon (peaceful; or, peaceful) (shel-o-moי) my son is young and tender,
and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it.” So David prepared abundantly before his death. —> Solomon my son is young and tender=The year is either 921 or 920B.C.; Solomon is 19 years old and is about to take over the reigns of the kingdom from his father who is about to pass-away and return Home to Father. So, yes, as far as the ways of the world was concerned and life in general, Solomon is quite young and tender, read that, inexperienced and unknowledgeable — as most of us are at that age.
Exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory=David wanted to honor Father with a beautiful Temple, one which captured anybody who saw It, to be immediately captivated by It’s magnificence of size and splendor of beauty, David also wanted his son Solomon to get the credit for it, not him. Therefore, he set about to acquire all the necessary materials, set in place all the skilled laborers, and assemble the well-versed handlers and transporters ensuring nothing was damaged or marred during shipment.
22:6-13 Solomon. Charge.
I Chronicles 22:6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel. —> Father told David in II Samuel 7 and I Chronicles 17, that he would not build the Temple for Father, that his son Solomon would build the Temple, and now David is charging his son to do so.
The reason Father told David that he would not build His House, was because he had blood on his hands as we’ll read to verses from now. This blood was due to the many wars David engaged in and won. We’ll also read that it was Father Who told David what name to name Solomon, whose name means: peaceful, which comes from the same root word that most non-Hebrew speaking people can easily identify, Hebrew word number: H7965, - שָׁלוֹם, - shâlôm, pronounced - shaw-lomeי.
Solomon=Solomon was one of, if not the greatest king to rule Israel. Though his father David was and is the king by which all other kings were compared against, it was Solomon who Father came to in that dream where He asked Solomon “Ask what I shall give thee?” Solomon replied in I Kings 3: I Kings 3:6 And Solomon said “Thou hast shewed unto Thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before Thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee; and Thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that Thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. [3:7] And now, O LORD my God, Thou hast made Thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. [3:8] And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy People which Thou hast chosen, a great People, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. [3:9] Give therefore Thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this Thy so great a People?”. He took over the throne from his father when he was at the tender age of 19,—he wasn’t Israel’s youngest king, there were several others who had that distinction—and he reigned for forty years, from 920–880 B.C., he was 59 years old when he returned Home to Father in heaven. † Solomon accomplished a lot of things during his reign, and a lot of good things. For the first 20+ years he did very well: He built the Temple; the palatial complex; the House of the Cedar of Lebanon; the house for pharaoh's daughter: the queen; and he brought in much gold and other sundries. It wasn’t until he got the “big head” after he completed all his building and Father appeared to him, Blessing him with all the wisdom he had, and then wanting to show off that Father Given Wisdom. It was then he started succumbing to the lust of the flesh, and he started accumulating his wives and concubines, and then started worshipping and building altars for his foreign wives’ false gods, and causing Israel to worship them too. Remember, all of the things that Solomon and Israel did, bringing in the wealth of the world by ships, and it happened in a short span of only forty years. † The etymology name Solomon comes from the fertile and familiar root שלם (shalem), meaning to be unbroken or whole: The noun שלמה (shilluma) is identical to our name Sholomoh, and is used in Psalm 91:8 in the meaning of reward or recompense (of the wicked). This illustrates the perhaps anti-intuitive notion that a bad result of something that was bad to begin with, is still very good (or rather: just). Although Psalm 91 is anonymous and tradition demands that Solomon is the great peace-king, his name may have stemmed from David’s deep remorse and grief over losing Solomon’s older sibling. When Solomon is born, the prophet Nathan receives word from Father that this child is loved by Him. Hence He names him Jedidiah—The name Jedidiah is a combination of two elements: The second element of the name Jedidiah is יה, which is the commonly accepted abbreviated form of the Tetragrammaton יהוה, which is YHVH, or Yahveh, the sacred Name of Father. The first element of the name Jedidiah comes from the verb ידד (yadad) , meaning to love—as can be read in II Samuel 12:25, although this name is, sadly, never again used.. † Now from the Strong’s Concordance, we find that it is Hebrew word number: H8010, - שׁלמה, - shelômôh, pronounced - shel-o-moי, and means: From H7965; peaceful; Shelomoh, David’s successor: - Solomon. Total KJV occurrences: 293.. † Now from the Smith’s Bible Dictionary, where we read: The description of Solomon in the Smith’s Bible Dictionary is extensive and too long to post here; so, I’ll instead just post the link to it: Solomon.
I Chronicles 22:7 And David said to Solomon, “My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God: —> Again, this was detailed and chronicled in both II Samuel 7 and II Chronicles 17, and I explained then that, as David is sitting in his opulent palace made of stone and cedar looking around the kingdom, he saw that all was going well — the Nation is being Blessed by Father YHVH, but Father’s Ark was sitting in that fabric tent which he had had erected for It. He decided he wanted to do something to be pleasing to Father, so he decided he should build Him a permanent structure, a Temple. So, he said to his favorite prophet, Nathan, that he should build a better, more permanent and suitable home for Father and His Ark. Who didn’t David seek in his asking? The obvious answer is: Father, the One he wanted to build a house for. This was out of character for David because, he usually always thought of seeking Father prior to taking on any new thing. He quickly found out that, like Saul before him, when he left Father out of the equation, he got himself into trouble.
What happened next? Lets’s continue reading and find out.
I Chronicles 22:8 But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto My name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in My sight. —> After Nathan gave David his personal opinion of proceeding with his thought and plans, Father appeared to Nathan that night in a dream and told him to tell David, not so fast there young buckeroo—my words, not Father’s. Father then proceeded to tell Nathan to tell David that He would not build a house for Father as, he had shed much blood during his lifetime. The shedding of blood was not offensive to Father as, most needed shedding as, Father’s enemies—those who rejected Him and wanted His People destroyed—almost continuously attacked Israel, and as such, Israel had to engage in many wars against Father’s and their enemies. The blood that David shed which was not pleasing to Father, was the shed blood of Uriah the Hittite, Bath-sheba’s husband. In either case, Father told Nathan to tell David that He would not build a house for Father, but that, Father would build him a house, meaning:
I Chronicles 22:9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days. —> David is telling his son Solomon, that many years previous, when he himself was still young and at the beginning of his reign and rule over the Nation of the House of Israel, he had wanted to build a house of Father, Father had then told him then, that he would have a son, and he should name him Solomon. Can you imagine being Solomon and hearing that Father had prophesied your birth, not only that but, had even told your father what to name you?
The next verse, v22:10, is a combined and condensed version of I Chronicles 17:12-13.
I Chronicles 22:10 He shall build an house for My name; and he shall be My son, and I will be his Father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.’
—> There is a dual meaning in this statement from Father as, He is not only referring to Solomon but, also to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We know this because, obviously Solomon died and returned Home to Father—yes, so did Jesus die in the flesh, however, He rose from the grave and Lives, nd yes, you in a sense can say the same for Solomon and all the others who died and returned Home to Father as, we serve a God of the Living not of the dead, the difference is that Jesus—Immanuel, God with us, God in the flesh—has Eternal Everlasting Life, whereas, most of those who returned Home to Father are still in liable to die the second death spiritual body.
Solomon would be the next man king of Israel and would be the builder of Father’s Temple, but, it would be his brother Nathan who would continue the Lineage to Jesus Christ. Solomon’s temple would be destroyed, burned to the ground and later rebuilt and destroyed again. Jesus’s body would be broken, but, That Temple Rose Again and Lives. Solomon reigned and ruled Israel for 40 years, the same number of years as both his father David and the first man king: Saul.
I Chronicles 22:11 Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as He hath said of thee. —>
When you obey Father and take on His Tasks, even though they may seem large, with Father on your side and assisting you, they are easily tackled for, as we read in Philippians 4:13: Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. —> Solomon has a large tasking from Father in building His House, but again, Father is with 19 year old Solomon, and so long as he seeks and trusts in Father, he’ll easily overcome any and all obstacles.
I Chronicles 22:12 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God. —>
Give thee wisdom=This was Solomon’s Prayer to Father when He appeared to him in that dream in I Kings 3: I Kings 3:5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, “Ask what I shall give thee.” —> Gibeon=Gibeon was also the place where Zadok was the High Priest during the same time that Abiathar was the High Priest in Jerusalem, whom Solomon had later threw-out and sent back to his place of residence in Anathoth. The LORD appeared... in a dream=There are 20 recorded instances in Father’s Word where He—Father YHVH; God of the Covenant, or Promise, Father ELOHIM; Creator of all things—appeared to someone in a dream. Here in this verse is the first of two such visits to Solomon. Think about this, here we have Father, the Creator, Maker and Owner of all things, coming to Solomon and asking him to name what it is that he desires Father give to him. What about you brethren, what would you ask Father ELOHIM for? Solomon could have asked for any and all things, sadly, some greedy men just might have indeed asked for such. But, what does Solomon ask for? We’ll read of it in these next few verses. Brethren we do all ask Father for things when we Pray to Him; whether it be for Blessings on somebody—including ourselves—a healing for somebody, for safety whether while we’re driving somewhere, through the night or through a storm. The important thing to remember is that we should always ask that Father’s Will be done and close our Prayer “in Jesus’ name.” Remember, Father knows our hearts and He knows what we need and what’s best for us, and He’ll ensure we have those things. Have you ever wondered—when you thought—why Father hasn’t answered one of your Prayers because, you didn’t see what you asked for come to pass? Maybe He had answered your Prayer, and it wasn’t the answer you were looking for; but, was an answer just the same and His answer was either “no,” or that He wasn’t going to give you what you asked for because He knew you might get hurt or hurt yourself if He gave it to you. LORD=This is Father in His role as YHVH The Covenant maker, just as God=as used here is Father in His role of ELOHIM Creator of all things. [3:6] And Solomon said, “Thou hast shewed unto Thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before Thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee; and Thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that Thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. —> Solomon said=Remember, Solomon is dreaming right now while Father is appearing to him, therefore he said, or is saying this “in his sleep.” Hast given him a son to sit on his throne=Father did give David a son to sit on his throne, why? Because, as Solomon is pointing out here, David always loved Father, serving Him and worshiping Him only. Yes, David erred in his adultery with Bath-sheba, and in his murder of Bath-sheba’s husband Uriah the Hittite, but though he committed fleshly adultery, he still never committed adultery on Father, in other words, he never served other false gods or idols. When the child was born to Bath-sheba which was conceived in that adulterous affair, Father called it Home to Him. He caused Bath-sheba to conceive again when David went in to comfort her, and this son, when he was born David named Solomon, however if you’ll recall from II Samuel 12:25, Father named him Jedidiah — “Beloved of YAH.” Also in this, we see that Father gave David something: i.e., a son to sit on his throne, but He also gave Solomon the answer to his Prayer here, verses v3:5-15; to Adam in Genesis 2:21-22; to Abraham in Genesis 15:12-13; to Jacob in Genesis 28:10-15, and to Samuel in I Samuel 3:3-4. [3:7] And now, O LORD my God, Thou hast made Thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. —> I am but a little child=I’m sure that with Solomon being a young man of only 19 or 20 years at this time, he did indeed feel almost overwhelmed in trying to lead such a great and numerous People, however, his father David didn’t feel that way, as a matter of fact, David already thought his son a wise man as evidenced by his saying so in I Kings 2:6-10. How to go out or come in=Obviously Solomon is old enough, and knows how to go out and come in, therefore we can see that this is a Hebraism, or figure of speech, which means that, he is unsure of himself and whether he is adequately prepared for this undertaking. So, what does he do? When Father appears to him in his dream, he asks Father to assist him in leading His People, and in this we see that Solomon is wise enough to know that Israel is Father YHVH’S Chosen People, and as we’re about to read, he thusly seeks His wisdom to help him do so. What about you brethren? Do you ask for Father’s assistance in your life? What about when you read and Study His Word? Do you ask His help to come to His understanding of it? Though I am not a fan of, and very much dislike using “one verse’ passages to make a point, there are a few instances where we can do so. Father provides us 2 key passages in the New Testament: (1) Matthew 7:7 which reads: Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: [7:8] For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. —> Do you want to understand His Word? Here is how to come to His understanding of it: notice I say His understanding of His Word, not our own understanding of it. There is only one True interpretation of His Word: His, and we MUST come to His Interpretation; not our own, not man’s; but, Father’s, now let’s turn to the second: Luke 24:45: Luke 24:45 Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, —>
Jesus had already been crucified before He opened His apostle’s understanding. He had been with them for 3 years teaching them day after day; but it was still not until after He had been crucified that He gave them the understanding. We too can only come to His understanding when He opens our ears and eyes. [3:8] And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy People which Thou hast chosen, a great People, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. —> Do you hear Solomon humble himself before Father? Thy servant...Thy People= Solomon is correct in that Father is fulfilling His Promise to Abram just before He changed his name to Abraham. We read in Genesis 15:5, that Father Promised Abram that his children would be as numerous as the stars of the sky, Solomon was born in the year 940B.C., so, even though at this time they were exceedingly numerous, their number then cannot compare to the number Israel is today. [3:9] Give therefore Thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy People, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this Thy so great a People?” —> Understanding heart=As I stated earlier, young Solomon begins his reign by asking of Father for wisdom in order that he be able to properly serve Father and reign over His People. Let’s look at these two words—understanding and heart—in the Strong’s Concordance, we find taht they are Hebrew word numbers; H8085, - שׁמע, - shâma‛, pronounced - shaw-mahי, and means: A primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively to tell, etc.): - X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, Xdiscert, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear (-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim (-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever [heareth], witness. Total KJV occurrences: 1,158., and now: “heart.” We find that in the Strong’s Concordance, it is Hebrew word number: H3820, - לב, - lêb, pronounced - labe,, and means: A form of H3824; the heart; used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect, likewise for the centre of anything: - + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag [-eous], friend [-ly], ([broken-], [hard-], [merry-], [stiff-], [stout-], double) heart ([-ed]), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind (-ed), X regard ([-ed)], X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom. Total KJV occurrences: 598., so, we see Solomon is asking for a mind which can both hear and understand the needs of his People, and therefore make the correct judgments. Solomon wanted to be a good judge over Father’s People. This is the purpose of the any king or president—something we in the USA lack in previous usurper-in-charge president—judge the people and defend the faith. Remember back in I Samuel where the priests—the sons of both Eli—Hophni and Phinehas—and Samuel—Joel and Abiah—had violated their trust with the people by laying with the women and ripping them off with their big three pronged hooks? They became greedy in their judgments, to the point that Father separated the duties of the priests, from those of the judges. The priests were no longer the ones to judge the Nation, that duty now fell on the monarchy, and there became a “separation of church and state.” Here, now, Solomon knows that his duty is that of the judge for all the land, and he wants to be fair in all his judgments. He wants to be able to see through the lies and deceptions that people might try and pull on him. He wants to be able to discern the good from the bad. He isn’t asking for something for himself, but for Father’s People. When Solomon judges fairly, then the People will have gained from his wisdom. Solomon is asking to be a good leader. He put his father David, his people, and Father’s will before himself. Contrast Solomon’s beginning with that of his son, Rehoboam, who’ll reign after him. Rehoboam will begin his reign by seeking and asking counsel of man, not of Father. He’ll receive good counsel from the elders, however, from his peers, they’ll wrongly counsel him that he should be a hard ruler over the People. [3:10] And the speech pleased the LORD★, that Solomon had asked this thing. —> Solomon didn’t ask for anything for himself, he didn’t ask for riches, for wealth, or health, nor did he ask for a long life; no, he asked for the tools necessary to righteously administer Father’s People. This brethren, is how you please Father, being unselfish and having compassion for the things of Father. LORD★=This is one of the 134 places wherein the “sopherim” inserted, or substituted, “adonai” for YHVH. Adonai is the Lord in His relation to the earth; and as carrying out His purposes of blessing in the earth. With this limitation it is almost equivalent to YHVH. Indeed, it was from an early date so used, by associating the vowel points of the word YHVH with Adon, thus converting Adon into Adonai. A list of 134 passages where this was deliberately done is preserved and given in the Massorah (107-115) see Dr. Bullinger’s Companion Bible Appendix 32. I have indicated these by printing the word like YHVH—LORD—but, adding a star, thus: LORD★.
I Chronicles 22:13 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed. —> Be strong and of good courage=This is exactly what Father had told Moses back in Deuteronomy 31:6 which reads: Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. —> This is good for us to consider in our daily lives even today brethren as, everyone of us can and should be able to “be strong and of good courage, dread not, nor be dismayed;” for we can stand on the promises that Father gave to us as His sons and daughters, He even told us to remind Him of His Promises in Isaiah 43:26 which reads: Isaiah 43:26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. —> Father will provide for us in our times of need when we call out to Him. He will take our load and make those hard times easy and able to bare. All we have to do is meet that “IF” condition, remind Him of His Promises in order to show Him that you know of His Promises, and then allow Him to have His way in our lives. He’ll give us the bricks, but it is up to us to do the building, in other words, He’ll give us the tools, but it is we who must complete the task which He sets before us.
22:14 Preparation.
I Chronicles 22:14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto. —> David is telling his son that while he ruled over the Nation, he had subdued all Israel’s enemies and put them to tribute in order to prepare for the building of Father’s Temple. He has collected an abundant amount of almost every necessary item: from the gold and silver to pay other countries for materials of wood and stone, to the brass and iron, it’s all there, but you too son, you can continue to add to the supplies.
In my trouble=David is referring to the unsettled years of his warlike reign; and of the trouble brought on by his sin when he committed adultery Bath-sheba and then had her husband killed, and then also his own son Absalom’s rebellion. This phrase in the Septuagint reads “according to my poverty.”.
22:15 Workmen.
I Chronicles 22:15 Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work. —> Again, these workmen are the foreigners or strangers from verse v22:2 above, many of the ones he had gotten from Rabbah and the other nations around them and is now using them for forced labor. We can also read in I Kings 5 where some of the men came from and their numbers, so let’s turn there and read: I Kings 5:15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains; —> Threescore and ten thousand ...fourscore thousand=One hundred fifty thousand men, this number is not combined in with the 30,000 from I Kings 5:13, it’s in addition to that number. So, we’re talking 180,000 men of free labor. IF there is any consolation at all in these numbers, it’s that most of these men were of the canaanitish people who our forefathers were to have “utterly destroyed” when they moved into the Promised Land; but, they had disobeyed Father and kept a lot of those people alive, and now they are putting them to use. [5:16] Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work. —> Solomon had 3,300 supervisors that he set over the laborers. These were lower level supervisors and managers, and their tasking was ensuring that the laborers were working and not slacking off. We’ll read later on in this Book of Kings that, he also had an additional 500+ mid and upper level managers he utilized as well. [5:17] And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. —> Not only the house—house put for Father’s Temple—but, the foundation of the Temple area as well. So, in other words, all these stones were extremely large, and laid in the foundation to support the structure, and then they continued up forming the walls of the Temple. The stone masons fashioned and dressed the stones at the quarry because there were no stone cutters or axes at the Temple site, and the masons also dressed them in order that they had an pleasing look. With all the cutting being done in the quarry area, can you imagine the accuracy which was needed in the measurments given to the stone cutters? Great stones=These stones illustrate the work of Father in the conversion of the sinner. Like these great stones, we too were hewed out of the dark quarry as Father states in Isaiah 51 which reads: Isaiah 51:1 Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. [51:2] Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. —> Yes, Father continually cuts us and carves us in order that we too have a smooth, perfect fit in His Temple. [5:18] And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. —> Stonesquarers= Check out this word in your Strong’s Concordance brethren, you’ll find that in the Hebrew, it is not as you would think, i.e., a specialized laborer, in other words, someone who is skilled in squaring the stones for laying them; no, in the Strong’s Concordance, this is Hebrew word number: H1382, - גּבלי, - giblı̂y, pronounced - ghib-leeי, and means: Patrial from H1380; a Gebalite, or inhabitant of Gebal: - Giblites, stone-squarer. Total KJV occcurrences: 2.. Let’s follow this back to it’s prime of H1380, - גּבל, - gebal, pronounced - gheb-alי, and means: From H1379 (in the sense of a chain of hills); a mountain; Gebal, a place in Phoenicia: - Gebal. Total KJV occurrences: 1.. So in other words, a stonesquarer is someone from Gebal, which today is known as Jubiel, which is 40 miles north of Sidon. The people from Gebal were known for their skills in working in timber and stones, they were also known as can be read in Ezekiel 27 which reads: Ezekiel 27:9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. —> They were shipbuilders, mariners and merchandisers; think of the ships from Tarshish and who it was that built them. We can also read in Psalms 83 where the inhabitants of Gebal have joined in the conspiracy and confederacy with Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, the Amalekites and Philistines—all descendants from Noah’s sons Ham and Shem—to cut Israel off from being a Nation that they may no more be a remembrance. Sounds sort of like today and all the nations—including some people our own, the USA, just like we also are descended from the House of Israel—wanting to completely make Israel disappear.
Cunning=This word sure has taken on several different meanings throughout Father’s Word, and not all of them for good. For the good usages we can consider that There were some very skilled laborers among them who know how to delicately cut stone, especially marble which would be used in Father’s Temple, some who knew how to fashion metals to make hinges and whatnot. For the negative usages, we can consider that it is one of the words which have been degraded in meaning, through the fall of man i.e., knowing; but those who know, generally know too much.
22:16 Workmen.
I Chronicles 22:16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee. —> Here, David tells Solomon that every item of material that he’ll have need of in building Father’s Temple, is of no limit as, everything is within his ready grasp; especially Father Who will lead and guide him, again, IF he’ll seek Him.
22:17-19 David’s command
to princes.
I Chronicles 22:17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, —> Princes=David wasn’t only talking with his sons “the princes” but, also, each Tribe had their own “princes,” otherwise known as leaders of the Tribe. So, it is both of these “princes” that David is commanding to assist his young son.
I Chronicles 22:18 “Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath He not given you rest on every side? for He hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before His people. —> These questions being asked by David are rhetorical in nature as, the answer is an obvious “yes” Father has been with His People Israel, and yes, He has given them rest from all their enemies on every side. Not only that but, our forefathers had more land than even He had promised them as, they also gained land from some of their enemies outside the Promised Land.
Remember, they gained land when the Tribes of Gad, Manasseh, and Reuben stayed on the East side of the Jordan River, they also gained land from when they defeated their enemies: the Ammonites, the Edomites, the Moabites, the Philistines, the Syrians, and many others. So, as we see, the geographical area that our forefathers enjoyed was much larger that Father had Promised our forefathers.
So, what David is saying to these princes of every Tribe is, that, Father had indeed Blessed us with the prosperity that we now enjoy, therefore, I call on each of you to repay Father by assisting my son, Father’s anointed third man-king of Israel in building the Temple wherein we will Honor, Serve and Worship Him.
I Chronicles 22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.” —> Set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD=This words are very important brethren as, truly this is the most important thing we can do in our lives: seek Father. Not only seek Him but, also, seek Him with all our heart and soul. He created us, He is our Father, He is closer to us than even our fleshly father. Why? Because it was Father Who created our soul while our fleshly father only provided the sperm—again, which our Father created within our bodies—which produced our flesh bodies.
Soul=Dr. Bullinger notes in his Companion Bible at this verse, the following: “your soul = you (emph.). Heb. nephesh. Ap. 13.”.
God=This is Father in His role of ELOHIM, see my note on verse v22:1 above.
Ark of the covenant=Note the different titles used of Father’s Ark in His Word, especially in the Books of the Chronicles: It’s The Ark — fifteen times, The Ark of GOD — twelve times, The Ark of The LORD — four times, The Ark of The Covenant of The LORD — eleven times, The Ark of The Covenant of GOD — once, The Ark of Thy Strength — once, The Holy Ark — once, and The Ark of our GOD — once, for a total of forty-six uses. Now, let’s compare the title here, with those of Exodus 25:22 which Dr. Bullinger declares the other seven titles: Ark of the Testimony, Ark of The Covenant of YHVH, Ark of Adonai YHVH, Ark of YHVH, Ark of ELOHIM, The Holy Ark, and The Ark of Thy Strength.
Holy=from Dr. Bullinger’s Companion Bible, page 76, where we read: “This is ever the cry and noblest praise of all of Father’s saints and can be compared with Exodus 15:11: Exodus 15:11 Who is like unto Thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like Thee, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?. Holy means separated or set apart for Father. It is always rendered of the Hebrew word “Kodesh” from the Strong’s Concordance where we find that it is Hebrew word number: H6944, - קֹדֶשׁ, - qôdesh, pronounced - koי-desh, and means: From H6942; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstractly sanctity: - consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (X most) holy (X day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary. Total KJV occurrences: 470., except in Psalms 42:4 where is it rendered “Hagag” H2287, - חָגַג, - châgag, pronounced - khaw-gagי, and means: A primitive root; compare H2283; H2328; properly to move in a circle, that is, (specifically) to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival; by implication to be giddy: - celebrate, dance, (keep, hold) a (solemn) feast (holiday), reel to and fro. Total KJV occurrences: 16. = holy day, and Deuteronomy 33:8, Psalms 16:2, 86:2, 89:19, 145:17 where it is rendered “Hasid” H2623, - חָסִיד, - châsı̂yd, pronounced - khaw-seedי, and means: From H2616; properly kind; that is, (religiously) pious (a saint): - godly (man), good, holy (one), merciful, saint, [un-] godly. total KJV occurrences: 32. = favor or grace. “Kodesh” must have one identical meaning (as above) in all passages; and does not imply moral quality except when used of God Himself. It can also be rendered “consecrated,” “dedicated,” “hallowed,” “holiness,” “saint,” and “sanctuary.”.”
Dec 2018
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