2 Chronicles 8:12-1

(cp. 1 Kings 9:25). Solomon's arrangements for the Temple Worship

This paragraph is in the main an expansion of 1 Kings 9:25.

12. on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch This refers to the great brasen altar of burnt-offering (2 Chronicles 4:1). In 1 Kin. the statement is that Solomon burnt incense upon the altar thatwas before the Lord(referring to the altar of incense; cp. Exodus 30:1-10). Such an act, according to the Chronicler, was of the nature of trespass, being punished in the case of Uzziah with leprosy (2 Chronicles 26:16), and was therefore not to be attributed to such a king as Solomon.