{"id":11392,"date":"2022-09-24T04:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-916\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:01:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:01:15","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-916\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 9:16"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And three hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold: three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 16<\/strong>. <em> shields<\/em> ] See note on <span class='bible'>2Ch 9:15<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em> the house of the forest of Lebanon<\/em> ] So called probably because it was built of cedar of Lebanon (<span class='bible'>1Ki 7:2<\/span>). It was in Jerusalem and seems to have existed as late as the time of Isaiah (<span class='bible'>Isa 22:8<\/span>) as an armoury.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span class='bible'>[See comments on 1Ki 10:17]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(16) <strong>Shields.<\/strong><em>Maginnm.<\/em> The <em>mgn<\/em> was a rouud or oval shield, about half the size of the target (<em>innah<\/em>)<em>,<\/em> with which it is often contrasted; <em>e.g.,<\/em> <span class='bible'>Psa. 35:2<\/span>; LXX., .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three hundred shekels of gold.<\/strong>Kings, <em>three manehs of gold.<\/em> The maneh or mina (Assyrian, <em>mana<\/em>)<em>,<\/em> was 1-60th part of a talent, and was equivalent to fifty or sixty shekels. Either the reading of our text is an error of transcription (<em>shlosh mth<\/em> for <em>shlosheth manm<\/em>)<em>,<\/em> or the word <em>shekels<\/em> is wrongly supplied in our version, and we ought rather to read <em>drachms<\/em> (100 drachms = 1 mina). The Syriac reads, And three minas of gold wrought on the handle of one shield; so also the Arabic.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>shields = covering or protecting shields. Hebrew. maginnim. <\/p>\n<p>house of the forest of Lebanon. This is the palace of cedar in Jerusalem (1Ki 7:2). <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>in the house: 1Ki 7:2 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: 2Sa 8:7 &#8211; shields 1Ki 10:16 &#8211; two hundred 1Ki 14:26 &#8211; the shields of gold 1Ch 18:7 &#8211; shields 2Ch 12:9 &#8211; the shields Son 4:4 &#8211; a thousand<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And three hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold: three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. 16. shields ] See note on 2Ch 9:15. the house of the forest of Lebanon ] So called probably because it was built of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 9:16&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}