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Verse [2 Chronicles 8:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/1). ***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 [1 Kings 7:1](../../../kjv/1-kings/7/1).

Verse [2 Chronicles 8:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/2). ***The cities which Huram had restored*** — [1 Kings 9:11](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/11).

Verse [2 Chronicles 8:3](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/3). ***Hamath-zobah*** — "Emessa, on the river Orontes." - *Calmet*.

Verse [2 Chronicles 8:4](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/4). ***Tadmor*** — *Palmyra*. [1 Kings 9:18](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/18), for an account of this superb city.

Verse [2 Chronicles 8:6](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/6). ***All the store cities*** — [1 Kings 9:19](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/19).

Verse [2 Chronicles 8:9](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/9). ***But of the children of Israel*** — [1 Kings 9:21](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/21).

Verse [2 Chronicles 8:11](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/11). ***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 [2 Chronicles 8:13](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/13). ***Three times in the year*** — These were the *three* great annual feasts.

Verse [2 Chronicles 8:15](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/15). ***The commandment of the king*** — The institutions of David.

Verse [2 Chronicles 8:17](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/17). ***Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber*** — See the notes on [1 Kings 9:26-28](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/26-28), for conjectures concerning *Ezion-geber* and *Ophir*.

Verse [2 Chronicles 8:18](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/18). ***Knowledge of the sea*** — Skilful sailors. Solomon probably bore the expenses and his friend, the Tyrian king, furnished him with expert sailors; for the Jews, at no period of their history, had any skill in maritime affairs, their navigation being confined to the lakes of their own country, from which they could never acquire any nautical skill. The Tyrians, on the contrary, lived on and in the sea.

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