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Preparations to Build the Temple. . 1 And Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the LORD , and a house for his kingdom. 2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. 3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, even so deal with me. 4 Behold, I build a house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel. 5 And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods. 6 But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn sacrifice before him? 7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide. 8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great. 10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil. Solomon's wisdom was given him, not merely for speculation, to entertain himself (though it is indeed a princely entertainment), nor merely for conversation, to entertain his friends, but for action; and therefore to action he immediately applies himself. Observe, I. His resolution within himself concerning his business ( 2 Chronicles 2:1 ; 2 Chronicles 2:1 ): He determined to build, in the first place, a house for the name of the Lord. It is fit that he who is the first should be served--first a temple and then a palace, a house not so much for himself, or his own convenience and magnitude, as for the kingdom, for the honour of it among its neighbours and for the decent reception of the people whenever they had occasion to apply to their prince; so that in both he aimed at the public good. Those are the wisest men that lay out themselves most for the honour of the name of the Lord and the welfare of communities. We are not born for ourselves, but for God and our country. II. His embassy to Huram, king of Tyre, to engage his assistance in the prosecution of his designs. The purport of his errand to him is much the same here as we had it 1 Kings 5:2-6 , c., only here it is more largely set forth. 1. The reasons why he makes this application to Huram are here more fully represented, for information to Huram as well as for inducement. (1.) He pleads his father's interest in Huram, and the kindness he had received from him ( 2 Chronicles 2:3 ; 2 Chronicles 2:3 ): As thou didst deal with David, so deal with me. As we must show kindness to, so we may expect kindness from, our fathers' friends, and with them should cultivate a correspondence. (2.) He represents his design in building the temple: he intended it for a place of religious worship ( 2 Chronicles 2:4 ; 2 Chronicles 2:4 ), that all the offerings which God had appointed for the honour of his name might be offered up there. The house was built that it might be dedicated to God and used in his service. This we should aim at in all our business, that our havings and doings may be all to the glory of God. He mentions various particular services that were there to be performed, for the instruction of Huram. The mysteries of the true religion, unlike those of the Gentile superstition, coveted not concealment. (3.) He endeavors to inspire Huram with very great and high thoughts of the God of Israel, by expressing the mighty veneration he had for his holy name: Great is our God above all gods, above all idols, above all princes. Idols are nothing, princes are little, and both under the control of the God of Israel; and therefore, [1.] "The house must be great; not in proportion to the greatness of that God to whom it is to be dedicated (for between finite and infinite there can be no proportion), but in some proportion to the great value and esteem we have for this God." [2.] "Yet, be it ever so great, it cannot be a habitation for the great God. Let not Huram think that the God of Israel, like the gods of the nations, dwells in temples made with hands, Acts 17:24 . No, the heaven of heavens cannot contain him. It is intended only for the convenience of his priests and worshippers, that they may have a fit place wherein to burn sacrifice before him." [3.] He looked upon himself, though a mighty prince, as unworthy the honour of being employed in this great work: Who am I that I should build him a house? It becomes us to go about every work for God with a due sense of our utter insufficiency for it and our incapacity to do any thing adequate to the divine perfections. It is part of the wisdom wherein we ought to walk towards those that are without carefully to guard against all misapprehension which any thing we say or do may occasion concerning God; so Solomon does here in his treaty with Huram. 2. The requests he makes to him are more particularly set down here. (1.) He desired Huram would furnish him with a good hand to work ( 2 Chronicles 2:7 ; 2 Chronicles 2:7 ): Send me a man. He had cunning men with him in Jerusalem and Judah, whom David provided, 1 Chronicles 22:15 . Let them not think but that Jews had some among them that were artists. But " send me a man to direct them. There are ingenious men in Jerusalem, but not such engravers as are in Tyre; and therefore, since temple-work must be the best in its kind, let me have the best workmen that can be got." (2.) With good materials to work on ( 2 Chronicles 2:8 ; 2 Chronicles 2:8 ), cedar and other timber in abundance ( 2 Chronicles 2:8 ; 2 Chronicles 2:9 ); for the house must be wonderfully great, that is, very stately and magnificent, no cost must be spared, nor any contrivance wanting in it. 3. Here is Solomon's engagement to maintain the workmen ( 2 Chronicles 2:10 ; 2 Chronicles 2:10 ), to give them so much wheat and barley, so much wine and oil. He did not feed his workmen with bread and water, but with plenty, and every thing of the best. Those that employ labourers ought to take care they be not only well paid, but well provided for with sufficient of that which is wholesome and fit for them. Let the rich masters do for their poor workmen as they would be done by if the tables were turned. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-11-18" class="com-number"

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솔로몬의 지혜는 단순한 사색이나 자기 즐거움을 위한 것이 아니었고, 또한 단지 벗들과의 교제를 위한 것도 아니었다. 그것은 행동을 위한 것이었다. 그러므로 그는 곧바로 행동에 착수한다.

**I. 사업에 관한 그의 결심(역대하 2:1).** 솔로몬은 무엇보다 먼저 여호와의 이름을 위한 전(殿)을 건축하기로 결심하였다. 먼저 섬겨야 할 분을 먼저 섬기는 것이 마땅하다. 성전이 먼저요, 궁궐은 그다음이다. 궁궐은 단지 그 자신이나 그의 편의와 위엄을 위한 것이 아니라, 나라를 위한 것, 곧 이웃 나라들 사이에서 나라의 명예를 높이고 백성이 왕에게 나아올 때 그들을 품위 있게 맞이하기 위한 것이었다. 이처럼 두 건물 모두에서 그는 공공의 선을 목표로 삼았다. 여호와의 이름의 영광과 공동체의 복지를 위해 자신을 가장 크게 헌신하는 사람이 가장 지혜로운 사람이다. 우리는 자신을 위해 태어난 것이 아니라 하나님과 나라를 위해 태어났다.

**II. 두로 왕 후람에게 보낸 사절단.** 솔로몬은 자신의 계획을 추진하는 데 도움을 얻기 위해 후람에게 사람을 보냈다. 이 사절단의 취지는 열왕기상 5:2–6 등에도 기록되어 있으나, 여기서는 더욱 상세하게 설명되어 있다.

**1. 이 요청을 후람에게 보내는 이유들(역대하 2:3–9).** 이는 후람에 대한 정보 제공이자 설득의 근거이기도 하다.

(1) 솔로몬은 아버지 다윗과 후람 사이의 관계와 후람이 다윗에게 베푼 친절을 내세운다(역대하 2:3). "당신이 내 아버지 다윗을 대하던 것처럼, 나를 그렇게 대하여 주십시오." 우리가 아버지의 벗들에게 친절을 베풀어야 하듯이, 그들로부터 친절을 기대하고 그들과 우의를 다질 수 있다.

(2) 솔로몬은 성전 건축의 목적을 밝힌다. 성전은 하나님께서 정하신 모든 예물이 그의 이름의 영광을 위해 드려지는 종교적 예배의 장소로 세우려는 것이었다(역대하 2:4). 성전은 하나님께 봉헌되고 그분의 섬김에 사용될 집으로 건축된다. 우리는 모든 일에서 이것을 목표로 삼아야 한다. 곧 우리의 소유와 행함이 모두 하나님의 영광을 위한 것이 되어야 한다. 솔로몬은 후람을 가르치기 위해 성전에서 행해질 여러 구체적인 예배들을 열거한다. 이방 종교의 신비들과 달리, 참 종교의 신비들은 은폐를 원하지 않는다.

(3) 솔로몬은 후람에게 이스라엘의 하나님에 관한 위대하고 고귀한 생각을 심어 주려 한다. 그는 하나님의 거룩한 이름에 대한 자신의 경외심을 드러내며 이렇게 말한다. "우리 하나님은 모든 신들보다 크십니다. 모든 우상보다, 모든 군주들보다 크십니다." 우상은 아무것도 아니며, 군주들은 보잘것없으니, 둘 다 이스라엘의 하나님의 통치 아래 있다. 그러므로 첫째, "성전은 위대해야 합니다. 봉헌될 하나님의 위대함에 비례하는 것은 불가능하지만(유한과 무한 사이에는 비례가 있을 수 없으므로), 우리가 이 하나님을 얼마나 귀하게 여기고 존귀히 여기는지에 어느 정도 비례해야 합니다." 둘째, "그러나 아무리 위대한 성전도 위대하신 하나님의 거처가 될 수는 없습니다. 후람은 이스라엘의 하나님이 사람의 손으로 지은 신전에 거하는 이방의 신들처럼 거하신다고 생각해서는 안 됩니다(사도행전 17:24). 그렇지 않습니다. 하늘의 하늘도 하나님을 모실 수 없습니다. 성전은 오직 제사장들과 예배자들의 편의를 위한 것, 곧 그분 앞에 제사를 드릴 적합한 장소를 마련하기 위한 것입니다." 셋째, 솔로몬은 자신이 비록 강력한 왕이지만, 이 위대한 일에 쓰임받을 자격이 없다고 여긴다. "내가 누구이기에 그분을 위해 집을 지을 수 있겠습니까?" 하나님을 위한 모든 일에 착수할 때, 우리는 그 일이 얼마나 우리의 능력을 넘어서는 것인지, 그리고 하나님의 완전하심에 족한 어떤 것을 할 능력이 우리에게 전혀 없음을 절감하는 것이 마땅하다. 우리가 외인들을 향하여 지혜롭게 행하는 것의 한 부분은, 우리가 말하거나 행하는 것이 하나님에 관하여 어떤 오해도 낳지 않도록 신중히 경계하는 것이다. 솔로몬은 후람과의 협상에서 그렇게 하였다.

**2. 후람에게 요청하는 것들(역대하 2:7–9).**

(1) 솔로몬은 후람에게 훌륭한 장인(匠人)을 보내 줄 것을 요청한다(역대하 2:7). "한 사람을 보내 주십시오." 다윗이 준비한, 예루살렘과 유다에 기술자들이 있었다(역대상 22:15). 유대인들 가운데도 예술가들이 있었다. "그러나 그들을 지도할 사람을 보내 주십시오. 예루살렘에도 재능 있는 사람들이 있지만, 두로에 있는 것 같은 조각가들은 없습니다. 성전 작업은 최고 수준의 것이어야 하므로, 가장 훌륭한 장인들을 구해야 합니다."

(2) 솔로몬은 작업에 쓸 좋은 재료들을 요청한다(역대하 2:8, 9). 레바논에서 백향목과 그 밖의 목재를 풍부하게 보내 달라는 것이었다. 성전은 크고 아름다워야 하며, 비용을 아끼지 않고 모든 기술을 다해야 하였다.

**3. 솔로몬이 일꾼들을 부양하겠다는 약속(역대하 2:10).** 그는 일꾼들에게 밀과 보리, 포도주와 기름을 공급하겠다고 약속하였다. 솔로몬은 일꾼들에게 빵과 물만 주지 않고, 풍족하게, 그리고 그들에게 건강하고 합당한 것으로 넉넉히 공급하였다. 일꾼을 고용하는 사람들은 그들이 보수를 잘 받을 뿐 아니라 충분하고 적합한 것으로 잘 공급받도록 돌봐야 한다. 부유한 주인은, 만약 처지가 뒤바뀐다면 어떻게 대접받기를 원하는지를 생각하여 가난한 일꾼들에게 그렇게 베풀어야 한다.

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S E C O N D C H R O N I C L E S CHAP. II. Solomon's trading, which we read of in the close of the foregoing chapter, and the encouragement he gave both to merchandise and manufacturers, were very commendable. But building was the work he was designed for, and to that business he is here applying himself. Here is, I. Solomon's determination to build the temple and a royal palace, and his appointing labourers to be employed herein, 2 Chronicles 2:1 ; 2 Chronicles 2:2 ; 2 Chronicles 2:17 ; 2 Chronicles 2:18 . II. His request to Huram king of Tyre to furnish him both with artists and materials, 2 Chronicles 2:3-10 . III. Huram's obliging answer to, and compliance with, his request, 2 Chronicles 2:11-16 . return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-1-10" class="com-number"

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역대하 2장. 이전 장 말미에 기록된 솔로몬의 무역 활동과, 그가 상업과 제조업 모두를 장려한 것은 매우 칭찬할 만한 일이었다. 그러나 그가 본래 맡은 사명은 건축이었으며, 이 장에서 그는 그 일에 본격적으로 착수한다. 이 장의 내용은 다음과 같다. I. 솔로몬이 성전과 왕궁을 건축하기로 결심하고, 이를 위해 일꾼들을 배치함(역대하 2:1, 2, 17, 18). II. 두로 왕 후람에게 기술자와 재료를 요청하는 서신을 보냄(역대하 2:3–10). III. 후람이 이 요청에 흔쾌히 응하고 이에 응함(역대하 2:11–16).

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Solomon's Treaty with Hiram. . 11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them. 12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build a house for the LORD , and a house for his kingdom. 13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, 14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. 15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants: 16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem. 17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. 18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work. Here we have, I. The return which Huram made to Solomon's embassy, in which he shows a great respect for Solomon and a readiness to serve him. Meaner people may learn of these great ones to be neighbourly and complaisant. 1. He congratulates Israel on having such a king as Solomon was ( 2 Chronicles 2:11 ; 2 Chronicles 2:11 ): Because the Lord loved his people, he has made thee king. Note, A wise and good government is a great blessing to a people, and may well be accounted a singular token of God's favour. He does not say, Because he loved thee (though that was true, 2 Samuel 12:24 ) he made thee king, but because he loved his people. Princes must look upon themselves as preferred for the public good, not for their own personal satisfaction, and should rule so as to prove that they were given in love and not in anger. 2. He blesses God for raising up such a successor to David, 2 Chronicles 2:12 ; 2 Chronicles 2:12 . It should seem that Huram was not only very well affected to the Jewish nation, and well pleased with their prosperity, but that he was proselyted to the Jewish religion, and worshipped Jehovah, the God of Israel (who was now known by that name to the neighbouring nations), as the God that made heaven and earth, and as the fountain of power as well as being; for he sets up kings. Now that the people of Israel kept close to the law and worship of God, and so preserved their honour, the neighbouring nations were as willing to be instructed by them in the true religion as Israel had been, in the days of their apostasy, to be infected with the idolatries and superstitions of their neighbours. This made them high, that they lent to many nations and did not borrow, lent truth to them, and did not borrow error from them; as when they did the contrary it was their shame. 3. He sent him a very ingenious curious workman, that would not fail to answer his expectations in every thing, one that had both Jewish and Gentile blood meeting in him; for his mother was an Israelite (Huram though she was of the tribe of Dan, and therefore says so here, 2 Chronicles 2:14 ; 2 Chronicles 2:14 , but it seems she was of the tribe of Naphtali, 1 Kings 7:14 ), but his father was a Tyrian--a good omen of uniting Jew and Gentile in the gospel temple, as it was afterwards when the building of the second temple was greatly furthered by Darius ( Ezra 6:1-12 ), who is supposed to have been the son of Esther--an Israelite by the mother's side. 4. He engaged for the timber, as much as he would have occasion for, and undertook to deliver it at Joppa, and withal signified his dependence upon Solomon for the maintenance of the workmen as he had promised, 2 Chronicles 2:15 ; 2 Chronicles 2:16 . This agreement we had, 1 Kings 5:8 ; 1 Kings 5:9 . II. The orders which Solomon gave about the workmen. He would not employ the free-born Israelites in the drudgery work of the temple itself, not so much as to be overseers of it. In this he employed the strangers who were proselyted to the Jewish religion, who had not lands of inheritance in Canaan as the Israelites had, and therefore applied to trades, and got their living by their ingenuity and industry. There were, at this time, vast numbers of them in the land ( 2 Chronicles 2:17 ; 2 Chronicles 2:17 ), who, if they were of any of the devoted nations, perhaps fell within the case, and therefore fell under the law, of the Gibeonites, to be hewers of wood for the congregation: if not, yet being in many respects well provided for by the law of Moses, and put upon an equal footing with the native Israelites, they were bound in gratitude to do what they could for the service of the temple. Yet, no doubt, they were well paid in money or money's worth: the law was, Thou shalt not oppress a stranger. The distribution of them we have here ( 2 Chronicles 2:2 ; 2 Chronicles 2:2 , and again 2 Chronicles 2:18 ; 2 Chronicles 2:18 ), in all 150,000. Canaan was a fruitful land, that found meat for so many mouths more than the numerous natives; and the temple was a vast building, that found work for so many bands. Mr. Fuller suggests that the expedient peculiar to this structure, of framing all beforehand, must needs increase the work. I think it rather left so much the more room for this vast multitude of hands to be employed in it; for in the forest of Lebanon they might all be at work together, without crowding one another, which they could not have been upon Mount Sion. And, if there had not been such vast numbers employed, so large and curious a fabric, which was begun and ended in seven years, might, for aught I know, have been as long in building as St. Paul's. return to ' Top of Page ' 2 Chronicles 2Ch 1 2 Chronicles 2Ch 2 Chronicles 2Ch 3 Footnotes: Copyright Statement These files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. Bibliographical Information Henry, Matthew. "Complete Commentary on 2 Chronicles 2". 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**I. 후람이 솔로몬의 사절에 보낸 답장.** 후람은 솔로몬에 대한 깊은 경의와 기꺼이 돕겠다는 뜻을 드러낸다. 작은 사람들도 이 위대한 사람들에게서 이웃다운 친절과 예의를 배울 수 있다.

**1. 후람은 이스라엘이 솔로몬 같은 왕을 가진 것을 축하한다(역대하 2:11).** "여호와께서 그분의 백성을 사랑하시기 때문에, 당신을 그들의 왕으로 세우셨습니다." 지혜롭고 선한 통치는 백성에게 큰 복이며, 하나님의 특별한 은총의 표로 여겨질 만하다. 후람은 "하나님이 당신을 사랑하시기 때문에 당신을 왕으로 세우셨다"(이것이 사실이긴 하지만 — 사무엘하 12:24)고 하지 않고, "하나님이 그분의 백성을 사랑하시기 때문에"라고 말한다. 왕들은 자신이 공공의 선을 위해 세워진 것이지, 자신의 개인적인 만족을 위한 것이 아님을 깨달아야 한다. 그리고 그들이 사랑으로 주어진 것이지 진노로 주어진 것이 아님을 증명하도록 다스려야 한다.

**2. 후람은 다윗의 뒤를 이어 이런 후계자를 일으켜 주신 하나님을 찬송한다(역대하 2:12).** 후람은 유대 민족을 매우 좋아하고 그들의 번영을 기뻐했을 뿐 아니라, 유대 종교에 개종하여 이스라엘의 하나님 여호와 — 이제 인근 민족들에게도 그 이름으로 알려진 — 를 하늘과 땅을 만드신 하나님이요 권능과 존재의 근원으로 경배한 것으로 보인다. 이스라엘 백성이 하나님의 율법과 예배에 충실하고 그 명예를 보전하였을 때, 이웃 민족들은 이스라엘로부터 참 종교를 기꺼이 배우려 하였다. 이것이 이스라엘을 높였다. 이스라엘은 많은 민족들에게 빌려 주었고 빌리지 않았으니, 진리를 빌려 주었고 오류를 빌리지 않았다. 그들이 반대로 행하였을 때 그것은 그들의 수치였다.

**3. 후람은 솔로몬의 모든 기대에 부응할 매우 재능 있는 기술자를 보냈다.** 그 사람은 유대인의 피와 이방인의 피가 함께 흐르는 사람이었다. 그의 어머니는 이스라엘 사람이었다. 후람은 그녀가 단 지파 출신이라고 생각하여 그렇게 말하지만(역대하 2:14), 그녀는 납달리 지파 출신으로 보인다(열왕기상 7:14). 그러나 그의 아버지는 두로 사람이었다. 이는 후에 두 번째 성전 건축이 다리오에 의해 크게 촉진된 것과 마찬가지로(에스라 6:1–12) — 다리오는 에스더의 아들로 어머니 쪽으로는 이스라엘 사람이라고 여겨진다 — 유대인과 이방인이 복음의 성전 안에서 하나 되는 것을 예시하는 좋은 징조였다.

**4. 후람은 필요한 만큼 목재를 공급하겠다고 약속하고, 레바논에서 욥바까지 바다로 뗏목에 실어 운반하겠다고 하였으며(역대하 2:16), 솔로몬이 약속한 대로 일꾼들의 식량을 공급해 주기를 요청하였다(역대하 2:15). 이 협약은 열왕기상 5:8, 9에도 기록되어 있다.**

**II. 솔로몬이 일꾼들에 대해 내린 명령.** 솔로몬은 태어나면서부터 자유인인 이스라엘 사람들을 성전 공사의 힘든 일에 쓰지 않았다. 심지어 감독으로도 쓰지 않았다. 이 일에는 유대 종교에 개종한 이방인들을 사용하였다. 그들은 이스라엘 사람들처럼 가나안에 상속받은 땅이 없었으므로, 기술을 배워 그 재능과 근면함으로 생계를 이어갔다. 이 시기에 이스라엘 땅에는 그들이 매우 많았다(역대하 2:17). 그들 중 일부가 하나님께 바쳐진 민족 출신이라면, 아마도 기브온 사람들의 경우와 같이 회중을 위한 나무 패는 자들이 되어야 하는 규정 아래 놓였을 것이다. 그렇지 않더라도, 모세의 율법에 의해 여러 면에서 잘 대우받고 본토 이스라엘 사람들과 동등한 처우를 받았기 때문에, 감사한 마음으로 성전 봉사를 위해 할 수 있는 것을 하는 것이 마땅하였다. 그러나 물론 그들은 돈이나 그에 상응하는 것으로 보수를 잘 받았을 것이다. 율법은 "이방인을 압제하지 말라"고 명하였다. 이들의 분배는 역대하 2:2와 역대하 2:18에 기록되어 있으니, 도합 15만 명이었다. 가나안은 비옥한 땅이어서 본토 주민 외에도 이 많은 입들을 먹일 수 있었고, 성전은 거대한 건축물이어서 이 많은 손들에게 일감을 줄 수 있었다. 풀러 씨(Mr. Fuller)는 이 건물에 독특한 방식, 즉 모든 것을 미리 짜 맞추는 방식이 오히려 작업량을 늘렸다고 지적한다. 이 방식은 오히려 이 엄청난 수의 일꾼들이 동시에 일할 수 있는 여지를 더 많이 만들었다고 생각된다. 레바논의 숲에서는 서로 부딪히지 않고 모두가 동시에 일할 수 있었지만, 시온 산에서는 그렇게 할 수 없었을 것이다. 이처럼 방대한 수의 인력이 동원되지 않았다면, 7년 만에 완공된 이 크고 정교한 건축물은, 내가 알기로는, 성 바울 대성당만큼이나 오랜 시간이 걸렸을 것이다.

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