the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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1 Kings 10:27
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the king: 2 Chronicles 1:15-17, 2 Chronicles 9:27, Job 22:24, Job 22:25
made: Heb. gave
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 17:5 - he had riches Job 3:15 - who filled their houses Job 27:16 - heap up Isaiah 9:10 - bricks Zechariah 9:3 - heaped Luke 19:4 - a sycamore
Cross-References
These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
All these people were the sons of Ham, and all these families had their own languages, their own lands, and their own nations.
These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.
These [are] the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, [and] in their nations.
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.
These are the descendants of Ham according to their constituent groups, according to their languages, by their lands, and by their nations.
These weren the sones of Cham, in her kynredis, and langagis, and generaciouns, and londis, and folkis.
These [are] sons of Ham, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, in their nations.
These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones,.... By the vast quantity he received from Tarshish; this is an hyperbolical expression:
and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are the vale for abundance; not by the growth of them, but by the importation of them from the dominion of Hiram; this is said in the same figurative way; of the sycamore trees, Rauwolff says g, they are what the Moors and Arabians calls "mumeitz"; which he describes to be as large and as high as white mulberry trees, and having almost the same leaves, but rounder, and their fruit not unlike our figs, only sweeter, and no little seeds within, and not so good; and are therefore not esteemed, and are commonly sold to the poorer sort, and that they grow in all fields and grounds; of which :-.
g Travels, par. 1. c. 4. p. 37.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Made silver as stones - This strong hyperbole marks in the most striking way the great wealth and prosperity of the capital during Solomon’s reign. The lavish expenditure which impoverished the provinces, and produced, or helped to produce, the general discontent that led to the outbreak under Jeroboam, enriched the metropolis, which must have profited greatly by the residence of the court, the constant influx of opulent strangers, and the periodical visits of all Israelites not hindered by some urgent reason at the great festivals.
The “sycomore-trees in the vale” (Shephelah) are mentioned also in 1 Chronicles 27:28. Like the olives and the vines, they were placed by David under a special overseer, on account of their value. The tree meant seems to be the sycomore proper, or “fig-mulberry,” which is still common in Palestine, and is highly esteemed both on account of its fruit and its timber.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 27. Made silver - as stones — He destroyed its value by making it so exceedingly plenty.
As the sycamore trees — He planted many cedars, and doubtless had much cedar wood imported; so that it became as common as the sycamore trees, which appear to have grown there in great abundance. This is considered to be a tree that partakes of the nature of the fig tree, and of the mulberry. Of the former it has the fruit, and of the latter the leaves; that is, the fruit had a considerable resemblance to the fig, and the leaf to that of the mulberry tree: hence its name sycamore, from the Greek συκον, a fig, and μορεα, a mulberry tree.
