2 Chronicles 6:22

_IF A MAN SIN AGAINST HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND AN OATH BE LAID UPON HIM TO MAKE HIM SWEAR, AND THE OATH COME BEFORE THINE ALTAR IN THIS HOUSE;_ If ... and the oath come before thine altar in this house, ... In cases where the testimony Of witnesses could not be obtained, and there was no way of settling a difference or dispute between two people but by accepting the oath of the accused, the practice had gradually crept in-and had acquired the force of consuetudinary law-for the party to be brought before the altar, where his oath was taken with all due solemnity, together with the imprecation of a curse to fall upon himself if his disavowal should be found untrue. There is an allusion to such a practice this passage....

Verse 2 Chronicles 6:22. _IF A MAN SIN AGAINST HIS NEIGHBOUR_] For the SEVEN _cases_ put here by Solomon in his prayer, see the notes on 1 Kings 8:31-11....

Compare Kings (marginal references). Compare Kings (marginal references)....

EXPOSITION The first thirty-nine verses of this chapter (less the thirteenth) correspond very closely with the thirty-eight verses of the parallel that run 1 Kings 8:12-11. For once also the two places are in closer accord in the original than might be augured from our English Version. Our thirteenth verse is not found in the parallel, and this fact, with the phenomenon of its presence here, will be considered under the verse when we reach it. The chapter consists of: _first, _Solomon's remarks addressed to his people (1 Kings 8:1); and _secondly_, the prayer and intercession he offers to God (1 Kings 8:14-11)....

2 Chronicles 5:1....

CHAPTER 6 SOLOMON'S ADDRESS AND DEDICATORY PRAYER _ 1. Solomon's address to the congregation (2 Chronicles 6:1)_ 2. Solomon's dedicatory prayer (2 Chronicles 6:12) The report of Solomon's address is the same as recorded in 1 Kings 8:12. The opening statement of this chapter has been well characterized as a pregnant expression of the king's realization of the mystery of the Being of Jehovah, the all-creative God, as well as the condescension displayed in His self-limitation to dwell amongst men. (See Exodus 19:9; Exod

2 Chronicles 5:2 to 2 Chronicles 7:10. THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE (see notes on 1 Kings 8). The chief points of difference between the Chronicler's account and 1 Kings 8 are: (_a_) that in 2 Chronicles 5:4 the Levites are the bearers of the Ark (_cf._ 1 Chronicles 15:2; 1 Chronicles 15:26 f.) instead of the priests as in 1 Kings 8:3; (_b_) that in...

SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. AND AN OATH BE LAID UPON. and he [his neighbour] lay an oath upon (Exodus 22:7.Leviticus 5:1.Proverbs 29:4.Hebrews 6:16; Hebrews 6:16)....

_and an oath be laid upon him_ Cp. Exodus 22:11. The oath means a _curse_which a man imprecates upon himself under certain conditions. _and the oath come_ R.V. AND HE COME AND SWEAR....

4. DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE (2 Chronicles 5:2 to 2 Chronicles 7:22) TEXT 2 Chronicles 5:2. Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the house of Jehovah was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God. 2. Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers-' houses of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion. 3. And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king at the feast, which was in the sevent