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. IX.

Vers. 1. ANd when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, &c.] See 1. Kings 10.1. where also many other passages of this chapter are explained in the Annotations upon the severall passages there.

Vers. 8. Which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne.] That is, the throne of Israel, 1. Kings 10.9. All thrones are Gods, because all power is of God, and he disposeth all the kingdomes in the world to whom he pleaseth, Daniel 4.32. The most high ruleth in the kingdome of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. But the throne of Israel was the Lords in a more speciall respect, because there was a speciall covenant betwixt God and Israel, in regard whereof he was more peculiar∣ly their God and king, and their kings his deputies, and types of Christ, Psal. 2.6. I have set my king upon my holy hill of Sion.

Vers. 10. And the servants of Huram, &c.] See 1. Kings 10, 11, 12.

Vers. 12. And king Solomon gave to the Queen of Sheba, all her desire, whatso∣ever she asked, besides that which she had brought unto the king.] That is, besides what he gave her of his own royall bounty, 1. Kings 10.13. in lieu of those guifts which she had brought to him; or rather, besides what he gave her in gifts of the same kind with those which she had given him, to wit, gold, and spices, and preci∣ous

stones, he gave her also other things that were greater rarities to her, because she had them not in her own countrey.

Vers. 13. Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon, &c.] See 1. Kings 10.14. &c.

Vers. 25, And Solomon had foure thousand stalls for horses, and chariots, &c.] See 1. Kings 4.26.

Vers. 28. And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, &c.] See 1. Kings 10.28.

Vers. 29. Now the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan, &c.] See 1. Kings 11.41.