Lord,"4 and the Eighty-eighth Psalm remains in all its depth and beauty to attest his powers of inspired thought and expres- sion. Chalcol and Dardas seem also to have taken large share in the organization of the Temple services with its psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Perhaps the words "sons of Mahol" refer to all four of the persons mentioned, and it is not impossible that they are thus meant to be described as "sons of the choir," or sacred singers.6 But none of the four could be 1 Gen. xli. 8; Exod. vii. 11; Acts vii. 22. 2 Comp. Job i. 3; Matt. ii. 1. These Benî Kedem seem to be the nomad tribes of Arabia and Mesopotamia. (See Gen. xxix. 1; Judg. vi. 3, 33, vii. 12). It is interesting to find this frank recognition of Ethnic wisdom and inspiration from which that of Solomon differed not in kind, but in degree. 3 I Chron. ii. 6, xv. 19; Ps. lxxxviii. title, xxxix. title. Ezrahite seems to be a mere transposition of Zerahite. They were descendants of Zerah, the son of Judah. If so, however, they cannot be identified with the Singers and Levites of 1 Chron. vi. 44. There seems then to have been two Hemans, and two Ethans, except on the not impossible supposition that Heman the (Kohathite) married a heiress of the house of Zerah, and was reckoned in Zerah's genealogy. 4 I Chron. xxv. 5. 5 For Chalcol and Dara (Darad, or Darda), see I Chron. ii. 6, where they are great-grandsons of Jacob, by the line of Zerah, son of Judah, and brothers of Ethan and Heman. 6 It is true that Machôl means "a dance" rather than "a choir," but in Ps. cl. 4, it may perhaps be used for an instrumen of music; and Rashi 62 SOLOMON. compared to Solomon. Of the extensive literature which tradi-
Lord,"4 and the Eighty-eighth Psalm remains in all its depth and beauty to attest his powers of inspired thought and expres- sion. Chalcol and Dardas seem also to have taken large share in the organization of the Temple services with its psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Perhaps the words "sons of Mahol" refer to all four of the persons mentioned, and it is not impossible that they are thus meant to be described as "sons of the choir," or sacred singers.6 But none of the four could be 1 Gen. xli. 8; Exod. vii. 11; Acts vii. 22. 2 Comp. Job i. 3; Matt. ii. 1. These Benî Kedem seem to be the nomad tribes of Arabia and Mesopotamia. (See Gen. xxix. 1; Judg. vi. 3, 33, vii. 12). It is interesting to find this frank recognition of Ethnic wisdom and inspiration from which that of Solomon differed not in kind, but in degree. 3 I Chron. ii. 6, xv. 19; Ps. lxxxviii. title, xxxix. title. Ezrahite seems to be a mere transposition of Zerahite. They were descendants of Zerah, the son of Judah. If so, however, they cannot be identified with the Singers and Levites of 1 Chron. vi. 44. There seems then to have been two Hemans, and two Ethans, except on the not impossible supposition that Heman the (Kohathite) married a heiress of the house of Zerah, and was reckoned in Zerah's genealogy. 4 I Chron. xxv. 5. 5 For Chalcol and Dara (Darad, or Darda), see I Chron. ii. 6, where they are great-grandsons of Jacob, by the line of Zerah, son of Judah, and brothers of Ethan and Heman. 6 It is true that Machôl means "a dance" rather than "a choir," but in Ps. cl. 4, it may perhaps be used for an instrumen of music; and Rashi 62 SOLOMON. compared to Solomon. Of the extensive literature which tradi-