2 Chronicles 6 - Introduction
_A.M. 3000. B.C. 1004._ Solomon declares his intent in building the house, 2 Chronicles 6:1. His prayer of dedication, 2 Chronicles 6:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
_A.M. 3000. B.C. 1004._ Solomon declares his intent in building the house, 2 Chronicles 6:1. His prayer of dedication, 2 Chronicles 6:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Lord hath said he would dwell in the thick darkness_ He has _made darkness_ his pavilion; but let this house be the residence of that darkness. For it is in the upper world that he dwells in light, such as no eye can approach.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have built a house of habitation for thee_ It is of great consequence in all our religious actions that we design well, and that our eye be single. If Solomon had built this temple in the pride of his heart, as Ahasuerus made his feast, only to show _the riches of his kingdom, and the honour of h... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thy son, he shall build the house_, &c. Thus one sows and another reaps: and one age begins that which the next brings to perfection. And let not the wisest of men think it any disparagement to them to pursue the good designs which those that went before them had formed, and to build on their found... [ Continue Reading ]
_O Lord God of Israel_, &c. Solomon, in the foregoing verses, had signed and sealed, so to speak, the deed of dedication, by which the temple was appropriated to the honour and service of God. Now here in the prayer by which it was, as it were, consecrated, it is made a figure of Christ, the great M... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hearken to the supplication of thy people_, &c. He asks not that God would help them without their praying for themselves, but that God would help them in answer to their prayers. Even Christ's intercession does not supersede, but encourages our supplications.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the oath come before thine altar_ By this it appears that the man who was to clear himself of any trespass, whereof he was accused, against his neighbour, by an oath, was to do it at the temple, before the altar of that God from whom he looked for the remission of his sins.... [ Continue Reading ]
_When thou hast taught them the good way_ Or, seeing thou hast taught them the good way, or instructed them in the knowledge of thyself, and of the worship and service in which thou delightest.... [ Continue Reading ]
_May know that this house is called by thy name_ That it is truly the house of the Almighty Jehovah. Solomon knew that the goodness of God was so immense, that the extending it, how much soever, toward other people, neither would nor could lessen the exercise of it toward Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Now, my God_, &c. Solomon sums up all in beseeching God, that the prayers which should be presented there, for any blessing, of what sort soever it was, might be graciously accepted and answered by him.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Arise, O Lord, into thy resting-place_, &c. Thus he concludes his prayer with some expressions borrowed from one of his father's Psalms, namely, Psalms 132. The whole word of God in general, and the Psalms in particular, are of use to direct us in prayer: and how can we express ourselves in better... [ Continue Reading ]
_O Lord, turn not away the face of thine anointed_ Of me, who by thy command was anointed the king and ruler of thy people: do not deny my request, nor send me from the throne of thy grace with a dejected countenance. _Remember the mercies of David_ Those which thou hast promised to David, and to hi... [ Continue Reading ]