1 Kings 10:5
the meat.4:22,23attendance. Heb. standing. cup-bearers. or, butlers.ascent. The original {weölatho asher yaäleh baith yehowah,} is rendered by the LXX. and Vulgate, [kai ten olokowtosin autou en anepheren en oiko Kuriou;] {et holocausta, quæ offerebat in domo Domini,} "And the burnt offerings (or holocausts) which he offered in the house of the Lord;" with which the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic agree; and so also Luther, {llnd feine Brandopfer, bie er in bem Daufe bes Derrn opferte;} and this seems to be the true sense of the passage. 2Ki 16:18; 1Ch 9:18; 26:16; 2Ch 23:13; Eze 44:3; 46:2there was no.Jos 5:1; 2Ch 9:4 2 Kings 16:18
the covert.There are a great number of conjectures concerning this covert; but it is probable that it was either, as Locke supposes, a sort of shelter or canopy erected for the people on the sabbath when the crowd was too great for the porch to contain them; or, as Dr. Geddes supposes, a seat, covered with a canopy, placed on an elevation, for the king and his court, when they attended public worship. 11:5; 1Ki 10:5; Eze 46:2
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