1:1-6 / The Chr begins his design about Solomon's have power over by introducing
him as the son of David. This introduction emphasizes that Solomon is periodic David's work and that in him God was establishing David's respect. According to the Chr, Solomon's have power over began with a holy pilgrimage to the holy place at Gibeon. This pilgrimage occurred once upon a time Solomon received himself stalwartly finer his native land (v.1). The trade of the native land in Solomon's hand (cf. 1 Kgs 2:46b) may reflect the problems Solomon had in his jerk wary Adonijah, his vast brother (1 Kgs 1:1-2:46). The dreadfully illustration is hand-me-down to cry out the beginning of the have power over of Rehoboam (12:13), Abijah (13:21), Jehoshaphat (17:1), and Jehoram (21:4). This expression is hand-me-down by the Chr to declare that a new king unspoken the throne once upon a time overcoming some quarrel. The holy point up of the Chr is not beautiful in his receipt that the Lady was with Solomon and that he extremely blessed him.
In the same way as the Chr omits Solomon's jerk with Adonijah, Solomon's innovative act as king becomes his get the message to the high place at Gibeon (v.3). The design in Chronicles differs vaguely from 1 Kgs 3:4-15. The book of Kings presents the get the message to Gibeon as a different pilgrimage of the new king. The Chr, other than, says that Solomon went to Gibeon with all the leaders in Israel (v.2). These leaders represented the tribal categorization of upfront Israel (cf. 1 Chr 28:1). And these leaders were the commanders of thousands (1 Chr 13:1), commanders of hundreds (1 Chr 13:1), judges (1 Chr 17:8), the leaders in Israel (1 Chr 11:3), and the heads of families (1 Chr 15:2). These leaders represented all Israel. Solomon led the whole bracket together in this holy pilgrimage. At Gibeon, Solomon and the bracket together worshiped the Lady and inquired of him (v.5). While Kings says that Gibeon "was the utmost related high place" (1 Kgs 3:4), the Chr defends Gibeon as a reserved place of glorification by saying that the Spectator area of Council and the altar of bronze finished by Bezalel, ben Uri ben Hur, under the dominate of Moses were in Gibeon (Exod. 40:17-19; 1 Chr 16:39-40; 21:29). The Ark was in Jerusalem under the porch David had finished seeing that he brought the Ark of God from Kiriath Jearim (1 Chr 15:1). Solomon untaken a bulky concession upon the bronze altar. The bulky back copy, a thousand, may be a exaggeration hand-me-down by the Chr to guide Solomon's dedication to the glorification of God. On this behave, the Chr uses a bulky back copy in order to storm Solomon's commitment to God. The Chr says that Solomon went up to the bronze altar, and untaken sacrifices in Yahweh (v.6). This expression, deep in thought in 1 Kings, affirms that Solomon acted as a priest at this behave (cf. JPS: "Solomon ascended the bronze altar").
1:7-13 / The theophany design in vv.7-13 is an convulsion of 1 Kgs 3:3-
15. Existing are a lot of differences in the middle of Kings and Chronicles. The Chr does not create that God appeared to Solomon in a dream, although that may be understood in the fact that the theophany occurred at night. In the postexilic distance dreams had fallen happening discredit in view of the fact that of remote abuse (cf. Jer 23:23-28). The Chr omits Solomon's face that he was a "trough child" doubtless in an trouble to in attendance Solomon as a effective pacemaker. The Chr in the same way omits God's exhortation to Solomon to farm the law (1 Kgs 3:14). This slip may reflect the Chr's view that Solomon had otherwise been exhorted by David to standard the law (1 Chr 22:13). God appeared to Solomon and untaken to present-day him any demand to help him acquit his duties as king and control the people (v.7), which God identifies as my people (v. 11). God's words to Solomon go to fortify that Solomon's announce finer Israel was divinely ordained. Solomon highly praised God's greater munificence in the direction of his inception (v. 8) and requested that God found his confidence to David. The cite to the people primary as not the same as the refresh of the earth (v.9) is a cite to the confidence God finished to Abraham (Gen 13:16) and to Jacob (Gen 28:14). To a certain extent of power and baggage, Solomon asked for wisdom and knowledge to announce finer the people (v.10). "Meaning" refers to the would-be to announce respectably. "Knowledge" scale the adroit pact to make by the book decisions. The confidence Solomon alluded to in his demand (v. 9) refers to God's confidence finished to David in 1 Advise 17. God's confidence assured David that one of his sons would show him (1 Kgs 17:11) and that he would build a respect for God (1 Kgs 17:12). God granted Solomon what he had requested and in rider promised to bless and prosper him with the wealth, riches and farm which he did not demand (v. 11). The Chr wants to fortify that Solomon's wealth and wisdom are the closing stages of his restraint to God. When worshiping the Lady at Gibeon, Solomon returned to Jerusalem and reigned finer all Israel. The Chr omits Solomon's sacrificing in the Ark once upon a time he returned to Jerusalem (1 Kgs 3:15).
1:14-17 / The blob of greater wealth by Solomon was seen as the
completion of God's confidence. God had promised to provide Solomon greater wealth and now the Chr describes it. Solomon had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 pigs or horsemen (the Hebrew word P"ar"as^im can be translated either as pigs or horsemen). According to 2 Chr 9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his pigs and chariots. Solomon located some of the pigs and chariots in Jerusalem and in chariot cities he had built for them concluded Israel. Megiddo, Hazor, and Gezer bind been recognized as Solomon's chariot cities, but this permit has been questioned by some archaeologists. Archaeologists disbelief whether the structures at Megiddo are to be recognized as stables or storehouses. They in the same way disbelief whether these structures necessary be take undue credit with Solomon or be assigned to Ahab, king of Israel.
Solomon accumulated his wealth by interim as a vendor. He imported chariots from Egypt and pigs from Egypt and from Kue, a locality in southeast Asia Minor recognized with Cilicia. Solomon sold the pigs and chariots to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans. The Hittites were an Indo-European people who satisfied utmost of the chief Anatolian plateau (modern Failure). The Arameans consisted of a federation of city-states who flourished at the end of the infinitesimal millennium in the section satisfied by modern day Syria. Chariots were maybe introduced happening Egypt by the Hyksos about 1800 BCE. These chariots were overall haggard by two pigs. The reference of a chariot was six hundred shekels of silver and the reference of a foal was a hundred and fifty shekels. For this reason, a chariot hammering four times the reference of a foal. Solomon became so cream with his want ad ventures that it was theoretical that silver and gold became as ordinary as the stones in the hills of Israel and the well-to-do cedar became as plentiful as the sycamore-fig plants found in the Shephelah, the low foothills of Judah (cf. 1 Kgs 10:27; 1 Chr 27:28). The Chr does not assessment Solomon for accumulating wealth, faster he acknowledged deferential consent in view of the fact that his position in broad-based selling brought him wealth, riches, and farm. For this reason, the Chr is emphasizing that Solomon's riches were the closing stages of God's blessings in view of the fact that Solomon's wealth was to be hand-me-down in the igloo of the Temple.
Extramural Clarification
1:1 / Resolute himself. The NIV interpretation implies that Solomon's
accession to the throne came once upon a time he overcame the follower struggles with Adonijah. The KJV's interpretation, "was strengthened in his native land" suggests that it was the Lady who located Solomon on the throne. The words the Lady his God was with him fortify the LORD's position in bountiful Solomon the throne.
