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**Hiram.** Born of a Jewish mother ([1 Kings 7:14](../../../kjv/1-kings/7/14) . [2 Chronicles 2:14](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/2/14) ).
**lover** = ally, Hebrews always at amity with the Phoenicians. Never with Canaanites.

**Thou knowest** . Compare [2 Samuel 5:11](../../../kjv/2-samuel/5/11) . 1Ch 14:1 ; [1 Chronicles 22:4](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/22/4) .
**could not.** There were three reasons altogether: (1) not the *time* ([2 Samuel 7](../../../kjv/2-samuel/7) ); (2) not the *opportunity* ([Luke 5:3](../../../kjv/luke/5/3) ); (3) not the *man* ( 1Ch 22:8 ; [1 Chronicles 28:3](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/28/3) , &c).
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .

**adversary.** Hebrew. *satan.*

**as the LORD spake** = according as Jehovah spake. Compare [2 Samuel 7:12](../../../kjv/2-samuel/7/12) , 2Sa 7:13 . [1 Chronicles 17:11](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/17/11) , [1 Chronicles 17:12](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/17/12) .

**any** = a man. Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 .

**sent:** i.e. wrote. Compare [2 Chronicles 2:11](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/2/11) . See note on [Exodus 17:14](../../../kjv/exodus/17/14) , and App-47 .
**fir.** Or, cypress.

**bring them down.** Note the illustration in the conversion of sinners. Cut down from nature's standing; down through the waters of death ([Romans 6:11](../../../kjv/romans/6/11) ), before finding their place in the temple of God ([Ephesians 2:20-22](../../../kjv/ephesians/2/20-22) ). Same with the stones. See note on [1 Kings 5:17](../../../kjv/1-kings/5/17) .

**gave** = continued to give. Compare [Psalms 45:12](../../../kjv/psalms/45/12) .

**gave.** Not the same as [2 Chronicles 2:10](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/2/10) . That was for Hiram's *workmen* in Lebanon. This was for his royal household at Tyre.
**measures.** See App-51 .
**pure** = bruised (as in a mortar), not crushed in a press.

**as** = according as. Compare [1 Kings 3:12](../../../kjv/1-kings/3/12) .
**league** =
**a** covenant. For breaking which Tyre was judged later. See [Amos 1:9](../../../kjv/amos/1/9) .

**levy** = tribute of men for free labour, not the bond service of [1 Kings 9:21](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/21) , [1 Kings 9:22](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/22) . Compare [1 Kings 4:6](../../../kjv/1-kings/4/6) . [2 Samuel 20:24](../../../kjv/2-samuel/20/24) . Foretold in [1 Samuel 8:16](../../../kjv/1-samuel/8/16) . David employed forced service of resident aliens ([1 Chronicles 22:2](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/22/2) ; and notes on [2 Samuel 12:31](../../../kjv/2-samuel/12/31) ).

**brought** = quarried.
**great stones.** These stones illustrate the work of conversion in the sinner. Hewed out of nature's dark quarry ([Isaiah 51:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/51/1) , [Isaiah 51:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/51/2) ), out and carved for a place in the temple of glory ([Ephesians 2:20-22](../../../kjv/ephesians/2/20-22) ).

**stonesquarers** = men of Gebal, or Giblites, as [Ezekiel 27:9](../../../kjv/ezekiel/27/9) , now Jubeil, forty miles north of Sidon. Compare [Psalms 83:7](../../../kjv/psalms/83/7) . Phoenician masons' marks still visible on them.
**so** = and.

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