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2 Chronicles 2:5
And. the house which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods; its magnificence should, in away, express the incomparable greatness of the true God.
And. the house which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods; its magnificence should, in away, express the incomparable greatness of the true God.
See 1 Kings 6:2 note. In Jewish eyes, at the time that the temple was built, it may have been “great,” that is to say, it may have exceeded the dimensions of any single separate building existing in P...
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 ...
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 t...
GREAT. In magnificence, not in size. Not for People; but, for Jehovah's presence with them....
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...
_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,...
SOLOMON'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH HIRAM This chapter substantially reproduces 1 Kings 5, with some differences in numbers, names, and expressions....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE SOLOMON RULES *ISRAEL 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 PREPARATIONS FOR THE *TEMPLE – 2 CHRONICLES 2:1-18 V1 Solomo
AND THE HOUSE WHICH I BUILD IS GREAT. — 1 Chronicles 29:1. GREAT IS OUR GOD ABOVE ALL GODS. — Exodus 18 11; Deuteronomy 10:17;...
_[2 Chronicles 2:4]_ וְ הַ בַּ֛יִת אֲשֶׁר ־אֲנִ֥י...
SOLOMON THE chronicler's history of Solomon is constructed on the same principles as that of David, and for similar reasons. The builder of the first Temple commanded the grateful reverence of a commu...
The king's devotion to the highest work of his life was, however, unhindered, and the second chapter gives us the story of how he commenced his preparations for doing that work by new commercial treat...
The message here recorded, which Solomon sent to Hiram, is much more particularly related than the parallel one in the book of the Kings. I beg the Reader to mark this. There is very great beauty, as...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 7. Thus Solomon having prayed, and entreated Jehovah that His eyes should be open, and His ears attent to the prayers that should be offered to Him...
AND THE HOUSE WHICH I BUILD IS GREAT,.... Not so very large, though that, with all apartments and courts belonging to it, he intended to build, was so; but because magnificent in its structure and dec...
And the house which I build [is] great: for great [is] our God above all gods. Ver. 5. _And the house which I build is great._] Excellently great, as he afterwards saith. 2Ch 2:9 _ For great is our...
_The house which I build is great_ Though the temple, strictly so called, was small, yet the buildings belonging to it were large and numerous. _For great is our God above all gods_ Above all idols, a...
1 and 17 Solomons labourers for the building of the Temple. 3 His embassage to Huram for workemen and prouision of stuffe. 11 Huram sendeth him a kinde answere. 1 AND Solomon determined to build a...
SOLOMON'S REQUEST FROM HIRAM (vv.1-10). As the Lord had foretold to David, He worked upon Solomon's heart to make him determine to build both a temple for the Lord and a royal house for himself (v.1...
THE HOUSE WHICH I BUILD IS GREAT; for though the temple strictly so called, was but small, yet the buildings belonging to it, both above and under ground, were large and numerous....
2 Chronicles 2:5 temple H1004 build H1129 (H8802) great H1419 God H430 greater H1419 gods H430 great -...
CONTENTS: Preparation to build the temple. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hiram, King of Tyre. CONCLUSION: (2 Chronicles 2:4-6) It becomes us to go about every work for God with a due sense of our utter...
2 Chronicles 2:1. _A house._ The word temple among the Jews, gradually obtained from the Gentiles. The Egyptians were the first that built temples; the Greeks and the Tyrians followed, as they rose to...
_And this house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods._ THE HOUSE OF GOD 1.The worship of God, the creator and governor of the world, commenced with the creation of man; but in...
_And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord._ SOLOMON’S PREDESTINED WORK Solomon was born to do this work. There is no need for the rose to say, “Now I am going to be beautiful...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 2:3 Solomon’s letter to HIRAM, KING OF TYRE (who had earlier assisted David; 1 Chro
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter corresponds with 1 Kings 5. It comprises preparations for building the temple (2 Chronicles 2:1); Solomon’s message to Huram (2 Chronicles 2:3); Huram’s reply ...
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 fre...
Now Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the LORD, and a house for his kingdom. And Solomon told out [or counted out] seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men to cu...
1 Chronicles 16:25; 1 Chronicles 29:1; 1 Kings 9:8; 1 Timothy 6:15;...
Great — For though the temple strictly so called, was but small, yet the buildings belonging to it, were large and numerous....