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                        Compare Kings (marginal references).
Compare Kings (marginal references).... 
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                        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... 
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                        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 Chronic... 
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                        ENEMIES. Septuagint reads "enemy", as in 1 Kings 8:37.... 
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                        _dearth_ R.V. FAMINE (as in 1 Kings).
_caterpillars_ Rather some kind of locust; see Driver on Joel 1:4.
_in the cities of their land_ R.V. IN THE LAND OF THEIR CITIES (Heb.
_gates_). The text is pr... 
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                        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 thi 
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                        _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
RIGHTEO... 
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                        SOLOMON'S PRAYER
The first 39 vv. of this chapter repeat 1 Kings 8:12, the conclusion
of the prayer, as given in 1 Kings 8:51, being omitted and three
additional vv. being substituted.
5. NEITHER CHO... 
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                        2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE
SOLOMON RULES *ISRAEL
 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 1 TO 9
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 6
SOLOMON BLESSES THE PEOPLE – 2 CHRONICLES 6:1-11
 V1 Then Sol 
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                        SITUATION 4: *DISASTERS AND DISEASES
*Disasters and diseases may come to the *Israelites. And enemies may
attack their towns. Solomon knows that these things may happen because
of the *sin of the peo... 
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                        IF THEIR ENEMIES BESIEGE THEM. — _If his enemies_ (Kings,
“enemy”) _besiege him._ (So in 2 Chronicles 6:34.)
IN THE CITIES OF THEIR LAND. — See margin, which correctly renders
the Hebrew text. But the... 
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                        רָעָ֞ב כִּֽי ־יִהְיֶ֣ה בָ † אָ֗רֶץ
דֶּ֣בֶר... 
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                        In the presence of the manifestation of glory the king pronounced a
blessing on the people which merged into, or took the form of, a
blessing offered to God, as he recounted the way of the divine
guid... 
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                        _Blasting, or mildew, (ærugo & aurugo.) The first has the colour of
brass, the other of gold. both have nearly the same import.
(Menochius) --- One of the terms is rendered, corrupt air; (3 Kings
viii... 
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                        I refer the Reader to the observations made on this prayer already in
the Commentary on the 1 Kings 8:1. And only by way of enforcing what
was there said, I would beseech the Reader, as he goeth over... 
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                        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... 
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                        2 Chronicles 5:1.... 
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                        1 Solomon hauing blessed the people, blesseth God.
12 Solomons prayer in the consecration of the Temple, vpon the brasen
scaffold.
1 THEN [NOTE: 1 Kings 8:12, etc.] said Solomon, The LORD hath said... 
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                        If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be
blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies
besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or
whatsoe... 
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                        Solomon's Dedicatory Prayer... 
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                        SOLOMON SPEAKS TO GOD AND TO THE PEOPLE 
(vv.1-11)
Solomon began his inauguration address by first speaking to the Lord,
reminding Him that He had said He would dwell in the dark cloud and
that he ... 
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                        IN THE CITIES OF THEIR LAND:
_ Heb._ in the land of their gates... 
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                        No text from Poole on this verse.... 
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                        CONTENTS: Solomon's sermon and prayer.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: Those who set God before them and walk before Him with all
their hearts, will find Him as good as His word and better. He... 
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                        2 Chronicles 6:41. _Thy saints._ וחסידיךְ _vakesidéka,_ thy
merciful ones. Our Saviour describes the saints as showing mercy.
Matthew 5:7. The Lord will show mercy to them again, and cause them to
rej... 
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                        _When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain._
PERILS TO AGRICULTURE
I. A rebuke to rationalism in natural evils. All meteorological
phenomena are under God’s control. In all afflictive events... 
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                        2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 6:1 The account of Solomon’s
prayer of dedication is very similar to the parallel account in 1
Kings 8:12, except that the Chronicler focuses on the Davidic co 
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                        CRITICAL NOTES.] Close parallelism of this chapter and 1 Kings 8:12; 2
Chronicles 6:13 only important variation.
_2 Chronicles 6:1 (cf._... 
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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 place... 
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                        Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick
darkness (2 Chronicles 6:1).
Now Solomon, at this point, preached the sermon to the people. All of
Israel, you remember, all the... 
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                        1 Kings 8:37; 1 Kings 8:37; 1 Kings 8:38; 2 Chronicles 12:2;...