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 ]