EXPOSITION
THE ANSWER TO SOLOMON'S PRAYER.—This chapter opens with an account
of God's second appearance to Solomon. It must not be supposed,
however, from the apparent close connexion of this relation with the
preceding narrative, that it stands to it in equally close
chronological order. It proba... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPOSITION
SOLOMON'S BUILDINGS AND UNDERTAKINGS.—So far the historian has
spoken exclusively of the two greatest works of Solomon's reign, the
Temple and the Palace, and principally of the former. Even the message
just related was, as we have seen, the response to the prayer offered
when the temple... [ Continue Reading ]