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2 Chronicles 7
22 verses with commentary
The Dedication of the Temple
Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
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The dramatic theophany 'when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house' validates both the temple and Solomon's reign through visible divine approval. Fire from heaven consuming sacrifice signifies God's acceptance (cf. Leviticus 9:24, 1 Kings 18:38). The consuming fire symboliz...
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(1) **When Solomon had made an end of praying**.—(1Kings 8:54, “And it came to pass, *when* *S. had made an end of praying* unto Jehovah all this prayer and supplication.”) From this point the divergence between the two accounts begins. There is no objective ground for supposing that the chronicler *invented* the facts here recorded. He must have found them in one of his sources, although we have ...
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God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.
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<strong>And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in temple building and worship as paradigmatic for post-exilic Israel. ...
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(2) **And the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord.**—Hardly a different assertion from that of 2Chronicles 5:14 (“ the priests could not *stand to minister*”); the cause in both instances being the same, and expressed in the same words (1Kings 8:11). But it is quite plain that the writer intends to record in 2 Chronicles 5, 7 two distinct appearances of the Divine glory, one before ...
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**18. the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say--**The order about the erection of an altar, as well as the indication of its site, is described (2Sa 24:18) as brought directly by Gad. Here we are informed of the quarter whence the prophet got his commission. It is only in the later stages of Israel's history that we find angels employed in communicating the divine will to the prophets.
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
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The people's response to divine glory: 'And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.' Seeing God's glory produced immediate worship - bowing (kara), worshiping (hishtachavu...
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(3) **Upon the pavement.**—*Riçpāh;* rendered by the LXX. τὸ λιθόστρωτον*,* which is the word used in John 19:13; Vulg., “pavimentum stratum lapide.” (Comp. Ezekiel 40:17-18; Esther 1:6, a tesselated pavement.)
**And praised.**—Gave *thanks to Jehovah.* The infinitive is here used for the finite form of the verb, as elsewhere.
**For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.**—See 1Chronicles 16...
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
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<strong>Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in temple building and worship as paradigmatic for post-exilic Israel. Unlike the Kings account which includes Solomon's ...
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(4-10) THE SACRIFICES AND THE FESTIVAL. (Comp. 1Kings 8:62-66*.*) The two narratives are again mainly coincident.
(4) **Then*.****—And.*
**Offered sacrifices.**—*Were sacrificing a sacrifice.* LXX., θύοντες θύματα*.* Vulg., “immolabant.”
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**20-21. Ornan was threshing wheat--**If the census was entered upon in autumn, the beginning of the civil year, the nine and a half months it occupied would end at wheat harvest. The common way of threshing corn is by spreading it out on a high level area, and driving backwards and forwards upon it two oxen harnessed to a clumsy sledge with three rollers and some sharp spikes. The driver sits on ...
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
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<strong>And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in temple building ...
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(5) **And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen.**—Literally, *the sacrifice of the oxen twenty and two thousand.* Kings, “the sacrifice of *the peace offerings which he sacrificed to Jehovah,* oxen twenty and two thousand.” The italicised words seem to have fallen out of our text. The numbers are the same in both accounts.
**The people.**—Kings has the old name, *sons o...
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**20-21. Ornan was threshing wheat--**If the census was entered upon in autumn, the beginning of the civil year, the nine and a half months it occupied would end at wheat harvest. The common way of threshing corn is by spreading it out on a high level area, and driving backwards and forwards upon it two oxen harnessed to a clumsy sledge with three rollers and some sharp spikes. The driver sits on ...
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood. by their: Heb. by their hand
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<strong>And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on ...
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(6) **And the priests.**—This verse is added by the chronicler, after his usual fashion of laying stress on the ritual, especially its choral and musical side. (Comp 2Chronicles 5:11-13.)
**Waited on their offices.**—Literally, *And the priests upon their wards* (*watches*)* were standing, i.e.,* stood at their posts. Vulg., “sacerdotes autem stabant in officiis suis.”
**Instruments of musick of t...
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
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<strong>Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing o...
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(7) **Moreover.**—*And.* This verse is slightly modified from 1Kings 8:64 (see the Notes there).
**Which Solomon had made.**—2Chronicles 4:1. Kings, *which was before the Lord.*
**Was not able to receive.**—An explanation of the phrase of Kings, “was too little to receive.”
**The burnt offerings . . . meat offerings.**—Both are singular in the Heb.
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**23. I give thee ... the threshing instruments for wood--**that is, to burn the sacrifice of the oxen. Very little real import--the haste and the value of the present offered--can be understood in this country. The offering was made for instant use. Ornan, hereby hoping to terminate the pestilence without a moment's delay, "gave all," oxen, the large threshing machine, and the wheat.
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
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<strong>Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in temple building and wo...
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(8) **Also at the same time.**—Literally, *And Solomon made the feast at that time seven days.* “The feast” was the Feast of Tabernacles. (See Leviticus 23:34-36.)
**Seven days.**—The legal time. (See Lev. *50100*) The days were counted from the 15th of the seventh month. (Comp. 1Kings 8:65.)
**The river.**—*Torrent* or *wady.* LXX., χειμάρρους*.* Kings adds, “before the Lord our God.” So Syriac.
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. a solemn: Heb. a restraint
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<strong>And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in temple building and worship as paradigmatic for post-exi...
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(9) **And in the** **eighth day**—That is, on the twenty-second of the seventh month (Ethanim, or Tisri; 2Chronicles 5:3).
**They made a solemn assembly.**—Comp. Leviticus 23:36. Not mentioned in Kings (1Kings 8:66 says: “and on the eighth day he dismissed the people,” *i.e.,* after this final gathering).
**For they kept the dedication of the altar seven days.**—The seven days preceding the first ...
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**25. David gave ... for the place six hundred shekels of gold--**At first he bought only the cattle and the threshing instruments, for which he paid fifty shekels of silver (2Sa 24:24); afterwards he purchased the whole property, Mount Moriah, on which the future temple stood. High in the center of the mountain platform rises a remarkable rock, now covered by the dome of "the Sakrah." It is irreg...
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
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<strong>And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler pres...
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(10) **And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month.**—Beginning with the evening of the twenty-second.
**For the goodness.**—Some MSS., Syriac, and Arabic, “for *all* the goodness,” as in 1Kings 8:66.
**David, and to Solomon.**—Kings, “David his servant.” The mention of Solomon was added by the chronicler. (Comp. 2Chronicles 6:4; 2Chronicles 6:8; 2Chronicles 6:15-17; 2Chronicles 6:42, ...
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**26. David built there an altar--**He went in procession with his leading men from the royal palace, down Mount Zion, and through the intervening city. Although he had plenty of space on his own property, he was commanded, under peremptory direction, to go a considerable distance from his home, up Mount Moriah, to erect an altar on premises which he had to buy. It was on or close to the spot wher...
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God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
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Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
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<strong>Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in...
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**THE LORD’S RESPONSE TO THE PRAYER OF SOLOMON**
(2Chronicles 7:11-22. Comp. 1Kings 9:1-9).
The substance and, for the most part, the language of both passages are the same, but the chronicler paraphrases occasionally, and has added a considerable section not extant in Kings (2Chronicles 7:13-16).
(11) **All that came into Solomon’s heart to make.**—A paraphrase of *all the desire* (Isaiah 21:4; 2...
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God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
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God's nighttime appearance to Solomon: 'And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.' God's response 'I have heard' assures that lengthy prayers (chapter 6) reached divine ears. The phrase 'chosen this place to myself' (bachar... li) emphasizes divine election and ownership - God chose the pla...
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(12) **By night.**—This is *implied* in Kings, which has, “as He had appeared unto him in Gibeon.”
**I have heard thy prayer.**—From this point begins the chronicler’s addition to the prayer as extant in the older text. Judging by the style, the added section must have formed an integral part of the original text, from which both the editor of Kings and the chronicler drew their narratives.
**An h...
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**28. when David saw that the Lord had answered him ..., he sacrificed there--**or, "he continued to sacrifice there." Perceiving his sacrifice was acceptable, he proceeded to make additional offerings there, and seek favor by prayer and expiatory rites; for the dread of the menacing angel destroying Jerusalem while he was absent in the center of worship at Gibeon, especially reverence for the Div...
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God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
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<strong>If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in temple building and worship as paradigmatic for post-ex...
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(13) **If I shut up heaven that there be no rain.**—Deuteronomy 11:17; 2Chronicles 6:26.
**If.**—*Hēn,* as in Jeremiah 3:1; Isaiah 54:15.
**The locusts.**—*Hāgāb,* a winged and edible species (Leviticus 11:22). In 2Chronicles 6:28, two other kinds, the *’arbeh* and *hāsîl,* were mentioned.
**If I send pestilence.**—2Chronicles 6:28; 1 Chronicles 21
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. which: Heb. upon whom my name is called
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This verse contains one of Scripture's most beloved promises: 'If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.' The four conditions (humble, pray, seek, turn) outline repentance's components. Humbling acknowledges sin's gravity; prayer...
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(14) **My people, which are called by my name.**—See margin; 2Chronicles 6:33; Amos 9:12; Jeremiah 14:9. The sense is: which are dedicated to me.
**Humble themselves.**—Leviticus 26:41, in a similar context.
**Seek my face.**—Psalm 24:6; Psalm 27:8.
**Turn from their wicked ways.**—Hosea 6:1; Isaiah 6:10; Jeremiah 25:5.
**Heal their land.**—Ps. Ix. 4.
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. unto: Heb. to the prayer of this place
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<strong>Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in temple building and worship as paradigmatic for post-exilic Israel. Unlike the Kings account ...
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(15) **Now mine eyes shall be open.**—Comp. 2Chronicles 6:40, and Notes.
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God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
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<strong>For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in temple building and worship as paradigmatic f...
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(16) **Have I chosen.**—2Chronicles 6:6, and 2Chronicles 7:12, *supr.*
**Sanctified this house.**—1Kings 9:3. The two accounts are again parallel.
**Perpetually.**—*All the days.*
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CHAPTER 22
1Ch 22:1-5. David Prepares for Building the Temple.
**1. David said, This is the home of the Lord God--**By the miraculous sign of fire from heaven, and perhaps other intimations, David understood it to be the will of God that the national place of worship should be fixed there, and he forthwith proceeded to make preparations for the erection of the temple on that spot.
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;
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<strong>And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in temple buildi...
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(17) **Walked.**—Kings adds, “in perfectness of heart, and in uprightness.” So Syriac and Arabic.
**And** **do.**—So LXX., Vulg., and Arabic. The Heb. is *wĕ-la‘asôth, “*and to do,” a construction which the chronicler sometimes uses in continuation of a future (imperfect tense). But Kings has “to do,” an infinitive defining the former verb; and so the Syriac here.
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**2. David commanded to gather together the strangers--**partly the descendants of the old Canaanites (2Ch 8:7-10), from whom was exacted a tribute of bond service, and partly war captives (2Ch 2:7), reserved for the great work he contemplated.
1Ch 22:6-19. He Instructs Solomon.
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God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel. There: Heb. There shall not be cut off to thee
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<strong>Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in temple building and wo...
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(18) **As I have covenanted with.**—Heb. *kārattî lĕ,* “Icut (a covenant) for.” The word *bĕrîth,* “covenant,” is omitted, as in 2Chronicles 5:10. So LXX., ὡς διεθέμην Δαυιδ τῷ πατρί σου*.* Syriac, “As I sware to David.” Kings: “As I spake concerning David” (*kārattî* may be an ancient misreading of *dibbartî,* “I spake;” the two being much alike in Heb. writing).
**Ruler in Israel** (*môshēl*)*.*...
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God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
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<strong>But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in temple building and worship as paradigm...
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(19) **But.**—*And.* Kings omits, but emphasises the verb, “If ye *will* turn,” or, “if turn ye will.”
The order of words in the Heb. implies that *ū-bnêkem, “*and your children,” has fallen out of the text: “And if ye turn, ye and your children.” So Kings, and Syriac and Arabic here. Kings adds, “From after me.”
**And forsake.**—Kings, “and keep not.” So Syriac and Arabic.
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God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
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<strong>Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronic...
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(20) **Then will I pluck them up by the roots**—i.e., *your children* (see last verse). (Comp. Deuteronomy 29:27.) Vulg. rightly, “evellam vos de terra mea.” The opposite idea is that of *planting* a nation in a land (Jeremiah 24:6). Kings, “Then will I cut off Israel from upon the face of the land.” The chronicler has softened the severity of the expression, *cut off Israel.*
**Will I cast out of...
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
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<strong>And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant warnings. The Chronicler presents Solomon's faithfulness in temple buil...
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(21) **And this house, which is high.**—A correction of Kings: “and this house *shall be high,”* which appears meaningless in the context. But the Syriac (and Arabic) here and in Kings has, “And this house shall be laid waste” (*nehwê hreb*); and the Targum of Kings combines both readings thus: “And this house *which is high shall be laid waste” *(*y’hê harîb*)*.* It appears, therefore, that the o...
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**6. Then he called for Solomon ... and charged him--**The earnestness and solemnity of this address creates an impression that it was given a little before the old king's decease. He unfolded his great and long cherished plan, enjoined the building of God's house as a sacred duty on him as his son and successor, and described the resources that were at command for carrying on the work. The vast a...
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God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
Read full commentary →And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
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<strong>And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.</strong><br><br>This verse contributes to the narrative of Solomon's reign, specifically focusing on Divine acceptance with conditional covenant ...
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(22) **And it shall be answered.**—*And men shall* *say.*
**Hath he brought.**—Kings, “hath Jehovah brought.” (So the Syriac and Arabic here.)
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Chapter 7
God's answer to Solomon's prayer.
--God gave a gracious answer to Solomon's prayer. The mercies of God to sinners are made known in a manner well suited to impress all who receive them, with his majesty and holiness. The people worshipped and praised God. When he manifests himself as a consuming Fire to sinners, his people can rejoice in him as their Light. Nay, they had reason to ...
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