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Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
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Gentiles Building the Temple
Commentators like Spurgeon and Henry see a profound spiritual truth in this partnership. The collaboration between Solomon (Israel) and Hiram (a Gentile king) to build the physical temple prefigures the New Testament reality where both Jews and Gentiles are brought together by Christ to build His spiritual temple, the Church.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The amount of wheat was considerably less than Solomon’s own annual consumption, which exceeded 32,000 cors (1 Kings 4:22). However, th…
19th Century
Anglican
Twenty thousand measures of wheat. —This agrees well enough with the calculation in 1 Kings 4:22 of ninety me…
Baptist
And I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat [for] food to his household …
The temple was chiefly built by the riches and labor of Gentiles, which typified their calling into the church. Solomon commanded, and they brought…
