Post by Lee on Aug 11, 2014 1:21:38 GMT
Ki 5:18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
Solomon's Temple was built using both Jews and Gentiles, and so the future temple will also be erected with Jew and Gentile
The meaning of Hiram's name does not seem to be known. God did not call him by name. It was a Gentile name.
Hiram was not an Israelite. He was the son of an Israelite woman who had married out of Israel. He had a Gentile name and did not live in Israel.
Here again is manifested both weakness and promise. Weakness in the choosing of a half-alien as the chief artificer of God's Temple—promise in the union of both Jew and Gentile in this Temple-builder. In the beauty of God's infinite wisdom and mercy we see future promise and strength brought from the womb of present failure and weakness.
-1965 Berean
"And from thence he arose and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon" (v. 24).
This is the only recorded time that Jesus during his ministry left the land of Israel, for he was not sent—as he said—except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
It is striking that it should be Tyre and Sidon, the dominion of king Hiram—"ever a lover of David"—who had helped Solomon build the Temple 1000 years before. On this visit to the borders of Tyre and Sidon there is an occasion of the manifestation of great faith and spiritual discernment on the part of a Gentile—the incident of the Syro-Phenician woman.
-1960 Berean
Solomon's Temple was built using both Jews and Gentiles, and so the future temple will also be erected with Jew and Gentile
The meaning of Hiram's name does not seem to be known. God did not call him by name. It was a Gentile name.
Hiram was not an Israelite. He was the son of an Israelite woman who had married out of Israel. He had a Gentile name and did not live in Israel.
Here again is manifested both weakness and promise. Weakness in the choosing of a half-alien as the chief artificer of God's Temple—promise in the union of both Jew and Gentile in this Temple-builder. In the beauty of God's infinite wisdom and mercy we see future promise and strength brought from the womb of present failure and weakness.
-1965 Berean
"And from thence he arose and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon" (v. 24).
This is the only recorded time that Jesus during his ministry left the land of Israel, for he was not sent—as he said—except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
It is striking that it should be Tyre and Sidon, the dominion of king Hiram—"ever a lover of David"—who had helped Solomon build the Temple 1000 years before. On this visit to the borders of Tyre and Sidon there is an occasion of the manifestation of great faith and spiritual discernment on the part of a Gentile—the incident of the Syro-Phenician woman.
-1960 Berean