Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 4:3
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1 Kings4:3
3 Elihoreph, and Ahiah the sons of Shisha, scribes : Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud the recorder .
i. e. Secretaries of State. He chose two, whereas David had but one: either, because he observed some inconveniencies in trusting all those matters in one hand: or, because he had now much more employment than David had, this being a time of great Peace and Prosperity, and his Empire enlarged, and his correspondencies with Foreign Princes more frequent.
Of which see on 2 Sam. 8. 16.
Marginal references: Or, secretaries.; Or, remembrancer.
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