8 ¶ And his house where he dwelt had
another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon
made also an house for aPharaoh's daughter, whom he
had taken to wife,a like
unto this porch.
9 All these were of costly stones, according
to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
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8a Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken
to wife Now Solomon had many wives a number of which were
arranged out of political alliances, and many of such may likely have not
been Hebrew related: who is to say? In this Solomon may not have kept to the
instruction of marriage within one's Israelite family. But in relation to
this marriage to Pharaoh's daughter, there is a likelihood that she was of
Israelite descent, at least such in relationship to that the 'king's daughter'
who did retrive Moses from the river and raised him as her own son, may will
have been herself of the house of Joseph as may be read in the JST version of
Genesis 50:29. For there the Lord is speaking directly to Joseph and
pronouncing such promised blessings upon him as the rightful heir of the
birthright or covenant blessings of Israel. And this the Lord said unto
Joseph concerning Moses, " . . . for a seer will I raise
up to deliver my people out of the land of Egypt; and his shall be called
Moses. And by this name he shall know that he is of thy house; for [because]
he shall be nursed by the king's daughter, and shall be called her
son." Now if indeed one of the
descendent 'grandsons' of Joseph did mary with the house of Pharaoh, Joseph's
seed might have come to be Pharaoh and by the adoptive law, Moses being
raised as the son of Pharaoh's, the king's, daughter, Moses well may have
come to understand that in this particular he was of the house of Joseph.
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