2 Chronicles 6:33

_THEN HEAR THOU FROM HEAVEN, AND DO, AND JUDGE THY SERVANTS, BY REQUITING THE WICKED, BY RECOMPENSING HIS WAY UPON HIS OWN HEAD; AND BY JUSTIFYING THE RIGHTEOUS, BY GIVING HIM ACCORDING TO HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

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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...

PEOPLED. Peoples. CALLED BY: or invoked upon....

_all people_ R.V. ALL THE PEOPLES. For this change see R.V. _Preface_, p. vi...

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

6:33 name. (a-60) See 1 Kings 8:43 ....