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1 Chronicles 22:4

in 1 Chronicles 22

and more cedar logs than could be counted; for the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought a large quantity of cedar logs to David.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and cedar-trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar-trees in abundance to David.

KJV

Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 22

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Also cedar trees in abundance,.... To be sawed into boards and planks for the cieling, wainscotting, and flooring of the temple, and other things: for the Zidonians, and they of Tyre, brought much cedar wood to David; from Mount Lebanon, which was chiefly in their possession; and which they did either of themselves as a free gift and present to him, or at his request, for which he paid them; and this is another thing prefiguring the help of the Gentiles in building up the church of Christ in Gospel times.

This site's exposition

gather together the strangers

on 1 Chronicles 22:2-4

David gathers the foreigners in the land to hew stone and sets iron, brass and cedar in abundance before he ever hands Solomon a charge. Kings has no equivalent scene; there the temple's materials appear only after Solomon writes to Hiram in 1 Ki 5. The strangers here are the Canaanite remnant and captives Chronicles elsewhere calls bond servants, the same labor force 2 Chr 2:17-18 will number under Solomon.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house unto the name of the L ORD my God: 8 But the word of the L ORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build a house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

See the marginal references and notes; 1Ch 14:1.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

for the nails, for the doors of the gates in German, negel, nails.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 22:3:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַעֲצֵ֥יand wood<s> of

    vaatzeiH6086328 times

  • אֲרָזִ֖יםcedar<s>

    ʾarazimH73073 times

  • לְאֵ֣יןto there not

    leeinH369789 times

  • מִסְפָּ֑ר[was] number

    misparH4557134 times

  • כִּֽיfor

    kiH35884482 times

  • הֵ֠בִיאוּthey had brought

    heviuH9352568 times

  • הַצִּֽידֹנִ֨יםthe Sidonians

    hatzidonimH6722

  • וְהַצֹּרִ֜יםand the Tyrians

    vehatzorimH6876

  • עֲצֵ֧יwood<s> of

    ʾatzeiH6086328 times

  • אֲרָזִ֛יםcedar<s>

    ʾarazimH73073 times

  • לָרֹ֖בto abundance

    laroH7230149 times

  • לְדָוִֽיד׃ פto David

    ledavidH1732999 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 5:11

    Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 14:1

      Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons, and carpenters, to build a palace for him.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Kings 5:1–2

      Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David.

    • 1 Kings 5:18

      So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

    • 2 Samuel 7:2

      he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”

  • Through

    Ezra 3:7

    They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 5:6

      Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there…

    • Acts 9:36

      In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which is translated as Dorcas), who was always occupied with works of kindness and charity.

    • Acts 12:20

      Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their…

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 2:3

    Then Solomon sent word to Hiram king of Tyre: “Do for me as you did for my father David when you sent him cedars to build himself a house to live in.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 5:11

      Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.