2 5. David’s Preparations for Building the Temple<\/p>\n
2<\/strong>. the strangers<\/em> ] Cp. 2Ch 2:17<\/span>; 2Ch 8:7<\/span> 9 (R.V.). Hewing of stone was regarded as task-work unit for free men.<\/p>\n wrought stones<\/em> ] All the stone used for the building of the Temple was previously cut to the right size; cp. 1Ki 6:7<\/span>.<\/p>\n The strangers – <\/B>i. e., the aliens the non-Israelite population of the land. Compare 2Ch 2:17<\/span>.<\/P><\/p>\n 1Ch 22:2<\/span><\/p>\n And David commanded to gather together the strangers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n What we cannot destroy may be usefully employed<\/strong><\/p>\n Whom we are not able to destroy we may be able to employ in holy service, is a doctrine which is not applicable to persons only, but has a distinct reference to emotions, passions, impulses, and sympathies. We are to hold ourselves in bondage, and often we are to drive ourselves to forced labour, and to become hewers of wood and stone, bearers of burdens, and indeed slaves to our higher manhood. (J. Parker,<\/em> D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Verse 2<\/span>. The strangers that<\/B><\/I> were <\/B>in the land<\/B><\/I>] Those who had become proselytes<\/I> to the Jewish religion, at least so far as to renounce idolatry, and keep what were called the seven Noahic precepts. These were to be employed in the more servile and difficult parts of the work: see on 1Kg 9:21<\/span>. For the account of building the temple, see 1 Kings 5-9<\/span>, and the notes there.<\/P> <\/p>\n The strangers that were in the land of Israel; <\/B>the same persons whom Solomon afterwards employed in the same work; of which see 1Ki 5:15<\/span>, compared with 1Ki 9:20<\/span>,21<\/span>. <\/P> He set masons to hew wrought stones; <\/B>wherein he could not do much, being prevented by death; but Solomon carried on and perfected what David had begun. <\/P> <\/p>\n 2. David commanded to gathertogether the strangers<\/B>partly the descendants of the oldCanaanites (2Ch 8:7-10<\/span>),from whom was exacted a tribute of bond service, and partly warcaptives (2Ch 2:7<\/span>), reserved forthe great work he contemplated. <\/P> 1Ch22:6-19<\/span>. HE INSTRUCTSSOLOMON.<\/P><\/p>\n And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel<\/strong>,…. The proselytes, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions; that is, proselytes of the gate, who submitted to the seven precepts of Noah, were admitted to dwell in the Cities of Israel, see Ge 9:4<\/span> and these were ordered to be got together to be employed in building the temple, and making preparations for it; and that partly because they were better artificers than the Israelites, who were chiefly employed in husbandry and cattle, and partly that the Israelites, who were freemen, might not be put to hard service; but chiefly this was for the sake of a mystery in it, denoting that the Gentiles would be concerned in building the spiritual house and church of God, the temple was a type and figure of, see Zec 6:15<\/span><\/p>\n and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God<\/strong>; to dig them out of the quarries, and fit them for the building.<\/p>\n Workmen and materials for the building of the temple<\/em>. – 1Ch 22:2<\/span>. In order to procure the necessary workmen, David commanded that the strangers in the land of Israel should be gathered together, and, as we learn from 2Ch 2:16<\/span>, also numbered. , the strangers, are the descendants of the Canaanites whom the Israelites had not destroyed when they took possession of the land, but had reduced to bondage ( 2Ch 8:7-9<\/span>; 1Ki 9:20-22<\/span>). This number was so considerable, that Solomon was able to employ 150,000 of them as labourers and stone-cutters (1Ki 5:15<\/span>.; 2Ch 2:16<\/span>.). These strangers David appointed to be stone-cutters, to hew squared stones, (see on 1Ki 5:18<\/span>). <\/p>\n 1Ch 22:3<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong> Iron and brass he prepared in abundance: the iron for the nails of the doors, i.e., for the folding-doors of the gates, i.e., partly for the pivots ( Zapfen<\/em>) on which the folding-doors turned, partly to strengthen the boards of which doors were made; as also for the , literally, things to connect, i.e., properly iron cramps. <\/p>\n 1Ch 22:4<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong> The Tyrians sent him cedar trees or beams in abundance, probably in exchange for grain, wine, and fruit of various sorts, which the Phoenicians obtained from the Israelites; cf. Movers, Phnizier,<\/em> iii. 1, S. 88ff. Sidonians and Tyrians are named to denote the Phoenicians generally, as in Ezr 3:7<\/span>. When Solomon began to build the temple, he made a regular treaty with Hiram king of Tyre about the delivery of the necessary cedar wood, 1Ki 5:15<\/span>.<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:5<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong> 1Ch 22:5<\/span> gives in substance the reason of what precedes, although it is connected with it only by consec. Because his son Solomon was still in tender youth, and the building to be executed was an exceedingly great work, David determined to make considerable preparation before his death. , puer et tener <\/em>, repeated in 1Ch 29:1<\/span>, indicates a very early age. Solomon could not then be quite twenty years old, as he was born only after the Syro-Ammonite war (see on 2Sa 12:24<\/span>), and calls himself at the commencement of his reign still (1Ki 3:7<\/span>). The word may of itself denote not merely a boy, but also a grown youth; but here it is limited to the boyish age by the addition of . Berth. wrongly compares Exo 33:11<\/span>, where denotes not a boy, but a lad, i.e., a servant. In the succeeding clause is to be taken relatively: and the house which is to be built to the Lord is to be made great exceedingly ( , see on 1Ch 14:2<\/span>), for a name and glory for all lands, i.e., that it might be to the Lord for whom it should be built for an honour and glory in all lands. , I will (= therefore will I) prepare for him (Solomon), scil.<\/em> whatever I can prepare to forward this great work.<\/p>\n (2) And David commanded to gather together the strangers.<\/strong>The word rendered to gather together (knas<\/em>) is different from the terms used in 1Ch. 15:3-4<\/span>; 1Ch. 19:7<\/span>, and is late in this sense.<\/p>\n The strangers<\/strong> (grm<\/em>).<\/em>Sojourners, or resident foreigners, such as Israel had been in Egypt (Gen. 15:13<\/span>). The Canaanite population are meant, who lived on sufferance under the Israelite dominion, and were liable to forced service if the government required it. (See 2Ch. 8:7-8<\/span>, and 1Ki. 9:20-21<\/span>.) Solomon found them by census to be 153,600 souls. The census was a preliminary to apportioning their several tasks. (See 2Ch. 2:17-18<\/span>.) David, probably on the present occasion, had held a similar census of the Canaanite serfs (2Ch. 2:17<\/span>).<\/p>\n And he set.<\/strong>Appointed<\/em> (1Ch. 15:16-17<\/span>); literally, caused to stand.<\/em><\/p>\n Masons.<\/strong>Hewers<\/em>; selected, apparently, from among the strangers.<\/p>\n Wrought stones.<\/strong>Saxum quadratum, square stones (1 Kings 5:31; Isa. 9:9<\/span>).<\/p>\n To build the house<\/strong>i.e., for building it hereafter. It is not said that the work was begun at once, but only that the organisation of the serf labour originated with David.<\/p>\n (2-5) David gathers craftsmen, and accumulates materials for building the house of God.<\/p>\n 2<\/strong>. <\/strong> David commanded to gather together the strangers <\/strong> These strangers <\/em> were the descendants of the old Canaanitish population of the land, whom the Israelites had not been able to expel. Comp. 1Ki 9:21<\/span>, and 2Ch 2:17<\/span>. Having settled on the site of Jehovah’s house, the king was stimulated to make, in his last days, all possible preparations for the building of the same. <\/p>\n Masons to hew wrought stones <\/strong> Or, stonecutters to cut hewn stones. <\/em> Compare 1Ki 5:15<\/span>; 1Ki 5:17<\/span>.<\/p>\n These verses represent David in a very engaging light. Though the honor of building this temple was not to be his, yet he will do his utmost towards it, that he may show his zeal and love to so good a cause. Do not the costly preparations made for it, serve to show a lively representation of the Lord Jesus, of whom this temple was to be a type, in those vast, and long, and costly preparations, made through so many ages, even from the fall: in all which there were so many shadowy representations for the introduction of the Lord Jesus? And do not these hewn stones David had prepared, represent to us the nature and state of God’s people, who must be long hewing and polishing to become stones in the everlasting temple of Jesus’s body, after they are dug out of the quarry of our fallen nature?<\/p>\n “Handfuls of Purpose,”<\/p>\n For All Gleaners<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n “And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.” 1Ch 22:2<\/span><\/em> .<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n The “strangers” are the aliens. We read of them in 1Ki 9:20-21<\/span> , “And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.” There is a very pathetic expression in this account of the strangers, “whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy.” Was not the destruction only partial in order to realise a divine providence? Would not such strangers or aliens be useful in the building of the temple? Whom we are not able to destroy we may be able to employ in holy service, is a doctrine which is not applicable to persons only, but has a distinct reference to emotions, passions, impulses, and sympathies. We are to hold ourselves in bondage, and often we are to drive ourselves to forced labour, and to become hewers of wood and stone, bearers of burdens, and indeed slaves to our higher manhood. David did not hesitate to reckon the Canaanite serfs in the census which he took of the people. In taking the census of a nation we do not only count the king, the statesmen, the military officers, and men of similar rank and position; we count down, even to young children; yea, we do not exclude the cradle itself when we number the people. There is a higher as well as a lower census. For civil and military purposes the infant is of no account, but the statesman looks not at the infant as he is to-day, but at the man as he will be in due process of time. The magistrate counts life, not years only. He says the nation is strong to such and such an extent, because he counts the little as well as the great. A man should take a census of himself in the same way; he is not all genius, intellect, might, faculty; he has his peculiarities, infirmities, his germs of power, his beginnings and possibilities of strength; all this he should reckon when he takes a census of himself, and in reckoning even the least of his elements and faculties he should regard them not as they immediately are, but as what they are in possibility under rightly-accepted divine training.<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:2 And David commanded to gather together the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.<\/p>\n Ver. 2. To gather together the strangers.<\/strong> ] A notable type of the calling of the Gentiles: and the like we may say of the temple’s being built on the ground of a Jebusite, and by the help of Tyrians and Zidonians, and adorned with the spoils of various nations. 1Ch 18:7-11 <\/p>\n 1Ch 22:2-5<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:2-5<\/p>\n DAVID GATHERS MATERIAL FOR THE TEMPLE’S CONSTRUCTION<\/p>\n “And David commanded to gather together the sojourners that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight; and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David. And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded by Jehovah must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries; I will therefore make preparations for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.”<\/p>\n “David commanded to gather together the sojourners” (1Ch 22:2). These were the aliens, the original Canaanites, whom Israel enslaved, contrary to God’s commandments. The complete record of this is found in the first chapter of Judges. (See our Commentary on the Historical books of Judges and Ruth.) “2Sa 20:24 indicates that David used forced labor.”<\/p>\n These verses indicate that David proceeded to gather vast quantities of materials with which the temple would be constructed.<\/p>\n GOD DID NOT COMMAND DAVID TO DO THIS<\/p>\n There can be no doubt whatever that David missed the significant point in the words of God to him through the prophet Nathan (2 Samuel 7), in which it was certainly clear enough that God did not desire the erection of any earthly temple whatever. David understood, of course, that he was commanded not to build it, which by any fair interpretation of the prohibition laid upon David would also have included the extensive preparations which David made to have it done, even commanding it most emphatically to be done by Solomon. And upon the principle that any man does, what he commands others to do, David must be charged with violation of God’s commandment in this particular.<\/p>\n The Chronicler, King David, Solomon, all the princes of Israel, and the entire nation nevertheless looked upon this temple as the most wonderful thing that ever happened to Israel. That God indeed allowed it, accommodated to it, used the temple in many ways to further the achievement of God’s purpose, even sending a special manifestation of his Eternal Presence to dwell within the Holy of Holies upon the occasion of its dedication –none of this can be denied; but God’s destruction of Solomon’s temple, and also his destroying the one constructed by Israel upon their return from captivity, cannot be harmonized with the proposition that the Jewish temple was, in any sense, the complete will of God.<\/p>\n Allowed, tolerated, used by God Himself, yes; but it still stands as a thing David conceived, promoted, commanded, planned, prepared for and projected in its entirety. From its conception in the mind of David, and throughout its entire history, the temple, in a sense, similar to pagan temples all over the world, was the conception and project of a mortal human being, not of God.<\/p>\n Furthermore, David was grossly mistaken about that temple’s being the “house” that God promised to build for David; and he was also totally in error in his conception that Solomon was the mighty one of his posterity whose throne God would establish forever.<\/p>\n In this light, the following paragraph must be read as the Chronicler’s true and accurate statement of the things David did and said, but not as proof that David was totally correct either in his words or deeds.<\/p>\n E.M. Zerr:<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:2. Strangers is from a word that means foreigners or aliens. The work of hewing stone was purely secular, so it was appropriate to employ such men in that work. The church should not call upon any but its members to participate in the congregational worship. But it would be altogether lawful to employ a man of the world to do any secular work needed. <\/p>\n 1Ch 22:3. The joinings were some kind of clamps to be used where nails alone would not be sufficient. Brass without weight means that he did not take the trouble to weigh it; he just got a great amount of it ready. <\/p>\n 1Ch 22:4. Tyre and Zidon (sometimes spelled Sidon) were prominent cities of Phoenicia, a country just north and west of Palestine. It included a part of the land where the famous “cedars of Lebanon” grew, and the inhabitants of these cities delivered much of this timber to David as a gift from a neighbor country. <\/p>\n 1Ch 22:5. Having been told that his son would be permitted to build the house of the Lord, David did what he could to help by having some things in readiness. Young and tender means he was inexperienced, being young, and David was desirous of having the building made properly. Magnifical means large and conspicuous. It was to be of such proportions as would impress the people of the surrounding countries. The closing sentence indicates the general scope of the verse and the others of the chapter preceding this one. That is, David did what he was permitted to do by way of preparation for the building that his son was to construct. All of this was going on before Solomon knew of the conversation the Lord had with his father relative to the temple. <\/p>\n the strangers: 1Ki 9:20, 1Ki 9:21, 2Ch 2:17, 2Ch 8:7, 2Ch 8:8, Isa 61:5, Isa 61:6, Eph 2:12, Eph 2:19-22 <\/p>\n masons: 1Ch 14:1, 2Sa 5:11, 1Ki 5:17, 1Ki 5:18, 1Ki 6:7, 1Ki 7:9-12, 2Ki 12:12, 2Ki 22:6, Ezr 3:7 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Ch 22:15 – hewers and workers of stone and timber 1Ch 28:2 – had made ready<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:2-3. To gather the strangers that were in the land of Israel The same persons whom Solomon afterward employed in the same work; of which see 1Ki 5:15; 1Ki 9:20-21. He set masons to hew wrought stones Wherein he could not do much, being prevented by death; but Solomon carried on and perfected what David had begun. For the joinings To be used, together with melted lead, for the joining of those great and square stones together.<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:2 to 1Ch 29:30. The whole of this section is the work of the Chronicler, though it is probable that he utilised some earlier sources in compiling it; a good deal of OT material is woven into it, but it has no parallel in earlier books, as in the case of the chapters so far considered.<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:2-19. Davids Preparation for the Building of the Temple.This is an imaginative elaboration of 2Sa 7:1-3; 2Sa 7:13.<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:3. couplings: the word is used only here (in reference to an iron object) and in 2Ch 34:11 (in reference to a wooden object). It refers probably to hinges. A word from the same root occurs in Exo 36:17 of the place of joining of curtains, and in Exo 28:17 of the place of joining of the shoulder-pieces of the ephod.<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:7. Taken from 1Ki 8:17.<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:8. because thou hast shed much blood: cf. 1Ch 28:3; the Chroniclers inference from 1Ki 5:3.<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:9. Solomon, and I will give peace: a word-play; in Hebrew Solomon = Shlmh, and peace = Shlm; but the two words are not radically connected.<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:10. Taken from 2Sa 7:13-14 a = 1Ch 17:12-13 a.<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:12 f. This stress laid on the observance of the Law is characteristic of the Chronicler.<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:14. in my affliction: better in my poverty; the Chronicler desires to teach that, however great the amount devoted to the building of the Temple, any contribution to such an object can at best be but a poor one; hence also the enormous exaggeration in stating the amount so bestowed.<\/p>\n 1Ch 22:16. there is no number: the reference is not to the gold and silver, etc., which were weighed (cf. without weight in 1Ch 22:14), but to the number of the workmen mentioned in 1Ch 22:15. The Chronicler, with characteristic exaggeration, speaks of the metal as being without weight and the workmen without number; the quantity in each case defied enumeration.<\/p>\n 22:2 And David commanded to gather together the {b} strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.<\/p>\n (b) Meaning, cunning men of other nations who dwelt among the Jews.<\/p>\n And David commanded to gather together the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. 2 5. David’s Preparations for Building the Temple 2. the strangers ] Cp. 2Ch 2:17; 2Ch 8:7 9 (R.V.). 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