2 Chronicles 2:4

_BEHOLD, I BUILD AN 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 SHEWBREAD, 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._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

The symbolic meaning of “burning incense” is indicated in Revelation 8:3. Consult the marginal references to this verse. THE SOLEMN FEASTS - The three great annnual festivals, the Passover, the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), and the Feast of tabernacles Leviticus 23:4; Deuteronomy 16:1....

EXPOSITION 2 CHRONICLES 2:1 In the Hebrew text this verse stands as the last of 2 Chronicles 1:1. DETERMINED. The Hebrew word is the ordinary word for "said;" as, _e.g; _in the expression of such frequent occurrence, "The Lord said." Its natural equivalent here might be, he _gave the word, _or _issued the command, _for the building of a house. FOR THE NAME OF THE LORD; better, to _the Name of the Lord _(1 Kings 5:3; or in Hebrew text, 1 Kings 5:18;...

BEHOLD, I BUILD AN HOUSE TO THE NAME OF THE LORD MY GOD,.... Am about to do it, and determined upon it, see 2 Chronicles 2:1, TO DEDICATE IT TO HIM; to set it apart for sacred service to him: AND TO BURN BEFORE HIM SWEET INCENSE; on the altar of incense: AND FOR THE CONTINUAL SHEWBREAD; the loaves of shewbread, which were continually on the shewbread table; which, and the altar of incense, both were set in the holy place in the tabernacle, and so to be in the temple: AND FOR THE BURNT OFFERINGS MORNING AND EVENING; THE DAILY SACRIFICE: ON THE SABBATHS, AND ON THE NEW MOONS, AND ON THE SOLEMN FEASTS OF THE LORD OUR GOD: at which seasons, besides the daily sacrifice, additional burnt offerings were offered, and all on the brasen altar in the court: this is an ordinance FOR EVER UNTO ISRAEL

SHEWBREAD (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 25:30). _...

2. THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE The Beginning and Appeal to Huram CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Solomon's purpose (2 Chronicles 2:1)_ 2. The workmen (2 Chronicles 2:2) 3. The message to Huram, King of Tyre (2 Chronicles 2:3) 4. Huram's answer (2 Chronicles 2:11) 5. Solomon numbers the strangers (2 Chronicles 2:17) In 1 Kings 5, Solomon purposed to begin the great work to which he had been called,

PREPARATIONS FOR THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (see notes on 1 Kings 5:5). Though the general narrative in the parallel passages is the same, the Chronicler's account varies in detail sufficiently from that in 1 K. to suggest the probability that the Chronicler used a different source. 2 Chronicles 2:14. of the daughters of Dan: in 1 Kings 7:14 of the tribe of Naphthali; a number of other variations of this kind bears out what has just been said as to the Chronicler's source....

BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. SWEET INCENSE. incense of spices. THE CONTINUAL SHEWBREAD. See note on Exodus 25:30; Exodus 40:4....

_the continual shewbread_ See 1 Chronicles 9:32, notes; Leviticus 24:5-9. _on the solemn feasts_) R.V. ON THE SET FEASTS. Cp. 1 Chronicles 23:31, note....

2. PREPARATIONS FOR THE TEMPLE (Chapter 2) TEXT 2 Chronicles 2:1. Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom. 2. And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand 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 am about to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt-offerings mornirig and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Jehovah our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel. 5. And the ho