THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— In the Vatican Sept. this chapter commences: AND IT CAME TO PASS WHEN SOLOMON HAD MADE AN END OF BUILDING THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND HIS OWN HOUSE, AFTER TWENTY YEARS, THEN SOLOMON, &C.; but no other authority sustains the addition. Elev... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 8:12. DWELL IN THE THICK DARKNESS—A deeply solemn gloom which impressed beholders with a mysterious awe. As on Sinai (Exodus 20:21 בָּעַרָפֶל) so here בָּעֲרָפֶל corresponding to the Greek ὀρφνός. _HOMILETICS OF 1 Kings 8:10_ THE CLOUD OF THE LORD I. WAS T... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 8:14. KING TURNED HIS FACE ABOUT—with his back upon the people; he and they had been watching the movements of the glory cloud; now he faced the awed concourse 1 Kings 8:15 contain Solomon’s address to the people, who listen standing, in which the king gratef... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 8:28. PRAYER, SUPPLICATION, AND CRY—תְּפִלָּה, מְּחִנּה רנּה are respectively _prayer in general_ (whether praise, petition, or thanks), _entreaty_ or supplication (petition for grace and help), and _praise_ (prayer as the joyful expression of praise and tha... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 8:61. Let your heart be perfect with the LORD, שָׁלֵם עִם יְהֹוָה; _uprightly_ with Jehovah (Luther); _submissive_ (Dr. Wette); _in friendship with God_ (Gesenius); _undividedly given to the Lord_ (Keil and Lange). 1 Kings 8:62. THE SACRIFICIAL ACT OF CONSEC... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 8:65. HAMATH IS THE GRECIAN EPIPHANEIA, the principal city of Upper Syria, on the Orontes, the Northern frontier of Palestine (Numbers 13:2; Numbers 34:8). _The river of Egypt_ is here, not the Nile, but the el Arish—the Southern boundary of the land of Isra... [ Continue Reading ]