2 Chronicles 6:1
SAID. The first thirty-nine verses repeat 1 Kings 8:12, with one or two complementary items, 1 Kings 8:51 being omitted, and three verses added. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAID. The first thirty-nine verses repeat 1 Kings 8:12, with one or two complementary items, 1 Kings 8:51 being omitted, and three verses added. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONGREGATION. assembly, muster, or convocation.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. HANDS. Some codices _write_ "hand", but _read_ "hands" (plural)... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER CHOSE I. This true of Saul. God did not choose him as He chose David; though He overruled the choice of the People. Compare 1 Samuel 8:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT WAS IN THE HEART. Compare 2 Samuel 7:2 2 Samuel 7:3. 1 Chronicles 28:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
STOOD. And then knelt down. See 2 Chronicles 6:13. No discrepancy, as alleged.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAD MADE. This also is complementary to 1 Kings 8. SCAFFOLD: or platform (round, and bowl-like, like. Pulpit). Hebrew same word as rendered laver. CUBITS. See App-51.... [ Continue Reading ]
MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO SIT. sitting. YET SO. if only. Same condition as 2 Samuel 7:14. Conditional to Solomon, but unconditional to David, as the Land was to Abraham (Genesis 15). Therefore the throne must, and will yet be, filled by David's son and David's Lord. AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERIFIED. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "I beseech Thee".... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew. _'adam_ (with Art.. mankind). App-14. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. HEAVEN... HEAVEN... HEAVENS. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6), for emphasis. HOW MUCH LESS. Compare Acts 7:48.... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON. toward.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. AND AN OATH BE LAID UPON. and he [his neighbour] lay an oath upon (Exodus 22:7.Leviticus 5:1.Proverbs 29:4.Hebrews 6:16; Hebrews 6:16).... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. JUSTIFYING. acquitting.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOOD: i.e. hast directed them into the good way (compare Genesis 46:28).... [ Continue Reading ]
ENEMIES. Septuagint reads "enemy", as in 1 Kings 8:37.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE LAND. Hebrew "upon the face of the land". Figures of speech _Pleonasm_ and _Prosopopoeia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN. toward, as in 2 Chronicles 6:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLED. Peoples. CALLED BY: or invoked upon.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAINTAIN: or vindicate.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THERE IS, &C. Figure of speech _Paroemia_ (by way of _P_ arenthesi _s)_.... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKEDLY. lawlessly. Hebrew. _rasha'._... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARISE. The following words are found in Psalms 68:1; Psalms 132:8; Psalms 132:9, by which Solomon connects his own work with David's. SAINTS. gracious ones. Hebrew "men of grace": i.e. those who are the subjects of Jehovah's saving grace. GOODNESS. prosperity, well-being, blessedness.... [ Continue Reading ]
THINE ANOINTED. Hebrew Messiah. THE MERCIES OF DAVID. Genitive of Relation (App-17). the mercies, or lovingkindnesses, shown and assured to David (Psalms 89:49).... [ Continue Reading ]