Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 5:9

9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea : and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me , and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my houshold .

The Midland Sea.

Or, Ships, or Rafts. It is thought the Timbers were tied together in the Water, as now it is usual, and so by the help of Boats or Ships, conveyed to the appointed place, which was at no great distance.

Which was Ioppe, 2 Chron. 2. 16. a Town upon the Sea, Ios. 19. 46. Act. 9. 43.

Heb. dispersed▪ or dissolved: which implies that they were tied together.

Or, i. e. Either, First, My Kingdom or People: for the word house or family is sometimes used for a Nation or People, as Iudg. 13. 2. and 18. 11. Zech. 12. 13. and 14. 18. The reason of this desire is, because the Countrey belonging to Tyre and Sidon, was very barren, and the People there being very numerous, depended upon Solomon's Countrey for relief, as is manifest from Act. 12. 20. compare Ezra 3. 7. Ezek. 27. 17. And this Relief or Provisions, Hiram doth not desire to be freely given to him, but to be sold to him and his people at a reasonable rate, as Iosephus reports it. Or, Secondly, My servants employed in the work, as it is expressed, 2 Chr. 2. 16. Though divers, both Iewish and Christian Interpreters, conceive that this and that are differing accounts; and that here he speaks of the recompence which was given to Hiram himself, and to his House, for the materials which were taken out of his Territories; and in 2 Chron. 2. of what was given to his Servants for their Labour. Or, Thirdly, My Royal Family and Court, which most properly is called his house.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 word] ▪; Heb. [illegible: 1 word] ▪