Annotations upon the remaining historicall part of the Old Testament. The second part. to wit, the books of Joshua, Judges, the two books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, and the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther : wherein first, all such passages in the text are explained as were thought likely to be questioned by any reader of ordinary capacity : secondly, in many clauses those things are discovered which are needfull and usefull to be known ... and thirdly, many places that might at first seem to contradict one another are reconciled ... / by Arthur Jackson.

CHAP. II.

Vers. 2. ANd Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear bur∣dens.] See 1. Kings 5.15, 16.

Vers. 3. And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, &c.] In the 1. Kings 5.3. it is said also that he al∣ledged to Huram, that he knew that David could not build an house for the wor∣ship of God by reason of his continuall warres, whereof himself being eased, he was now resolved to undertake the work; where also such other passages in this message of Solomon to Huram, as need any exposition, are already explained.

Vers. 8. For I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon.] That is, excellently; better than any of my servants, see 1. Kings 5.6.

Vers. 10. I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thou∣sand measures of beaten wheat, &c.] Or if this did not like him, whatsoever hire himself did appoint, 1. Kings 5.6.

Vers. 12. Huram said moreover, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, &c.] See 1. Kings 5.7.

Vers. 13. And now I have sent a cunning man, &c.] His name was Huram, chap. 4.16. or Hiram 1. Kings 7.13. concerning which, and what is further here∣in to be noted, see the note there.

Vers. 15. The wheat, and the barley, the oyle, and the wine which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants.] Thus he accepts of the hire for his ser∣vants, which Solomon had profered, vers. 10. but withall he made a request to him for a certain yearely provision for his own houshold, which Solomon granted him also, 1 Kings 5.9, 11. Of which, and some other passages in the king of Tyres answer, see the note there.

Vers. 17. And Solomon numbred all the strangers that were in the land of Israel.] See 1. Kings 5.15, 16.