17Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
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Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold. …
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-30)We have here Solomon in his throne, and Solomon in his grave; for the throne would not secure him from the grave. Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat — Death wrenches from the hand the sceptre as well as the spade . I. Here is Solomon reigning in wealth and power, in ease and fulness, such as, for aught I know, could never since be paralleled by any king whatsoever. In cannot pretend to be critical in c…
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