1st Chronicles Chapter 22 verse 4 Holy Bible
and cedar-trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar-trees in abundance to David.
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And cedar-trees without number, for the Zidonians and the men of Tyre came with a great amount of cedar-trees for David.
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and cedar-trees innumerable; for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar-wood in abundance to David.
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Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.
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Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.
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and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.
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And cedar-trees even without number, for the Zidonians and the Tyrians brought in cedar-trees in abundance to David.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - The Zidonians and they of Tyre (see 1 Kings 5:6, 9, 13-18; 2 Chronicles 2:16-18). The interesting passages in Homer, Herodotus, and Strabo, which speak of Zidon, etc., are in entire accord with what is here said, and are well worth perusal; e.g. 'Iliad,' 6:289-295, "And she descended to the vaulted chamber, where were the garments all embroidered, the works of women of Sidon, whom the godlike Alexander himself brought from Sidon when he crossed the wide sea, by the way that he brought Helen of noble lineage;" 'Iliad,' 23. 743, 744, "And this vessel was of unsurpassed fame for beauty over all the land, for the men of Sidon, cunning artificers, had skilfully wrought it, and Phoenicians had brought it over the dark sea;" 'Odyssey,' 4:615-618, "And it was all silver, but the borders were mingled with gold. It was the work of Hephaestus. The illustrious Phademus, King of the Sidonians, gave it me when his palace sheltered me on my return thither;" 'Odyssey,' 15:424, "I boast to come from Sidon, famed for its skill in the working of brass." Similar references may be found in Herodotus (7:44, 96) and Strabo (16:2, ยง 23. See also 'Speaker's Commentary,' under 1 Kings 5:6).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Also cedar trees in abundance.--Literally, and beams or logs of cedars without number. A rhetorical exaggeration, like that which we have just noted. (See also 1Chronicles 14:1.)The Zidonians and they of Tyra (i.e., the Phoenicians) brought much cedar wood--i.e., in the way of ordinary commerce, to barter them for supplies of grain, wine, oil, and other products of the soil, which their own rocky coast-land did not yield in sufficiency. (Comp. 1Chronicles 14:1.) At a later time Hiram entered into an express contract with Solomon to supply the cedar and other materials required for building the Temple (1Kings 5:8-11).
