2 Chronicles 6
1 Solomon, having blessed the people, blesses God.
12 Solomon's prayer in the consecration of the temple, upon the brasen scaffold, etc.
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
built <01129> [I have built.]
turned around <05437 06440> [turned his face.]
blessing <01288> [blessed.]
assembly <06951> [all the congregation.]
worthy <01288> [Blessed.]
<03027> [who hath with.]
day <03117> [Since the day.]
live <08034> [my name.]
chosen ..................... choose <0977> [neither chose.]
The judges and Saul were chosen by God, for a season, to be rulers of Israel; but not to establish a permanent and hereditary authority over that people, as was the case with David. This clause is wanting in the parallel passage of Kings; but it helps to clear the sense.
chosen Jerusalem .......... chosen <0977 03389> [But I have chosen Jerusalem.]
This clause is also not found in Kings. Jerusalem was expressly marked out, by the building of the temple, to be the centre of the worship of Israel; as Jehovah had before spoken by Moses: see the parallel passages.
chosen ........... chosen David <01732 0977> [chosen David.]
is right <02895> [thou didst well.]
son <01121> [thy son.]
kept ... promise <01697 06965> [performed his word.]
kept <06965> [I am risen.]
Lord ........................ Lord ............. Lord <03068> [as the Lord.]
set ......... ark <0727 07760> [I put the ark.]
covenant <01285> [the covenant.]
As "there was nothing in the ark but the two tables of stone," consequently they are called the covenant, i.e., a sign of the covenant.
stood <05975> [he stood.]
spread <06566> [spread forth.]
platform <03595> [scaffold.]
long <0753> [long. Heb. the length thereof, etc. the court.]
got down <01288> [kneeled down.]
Lord God ....... god <03068 0430> [O Lord God.]
God ....... god <0430> [no God.]
maintain covenantal ...... who obey <01285 08104> [keepest covenant.]
loyalty <02617> [mercy.]
have ..... promised <01696> [and spakest.]
fulfilled <04390> [hast fulfilled.]
keep ................................... watch <08104> [keep.]
said <0559> [saying.]
fail ..... successor <03772 0376> [There shall not fail thee a man. Heb. There shall not a man be cut off. to walk.]
Lord <03068> [O Lord.]
promise <01697> [let thy.]
God <0430> [But will.]
sky .... highest heaven <08064> [heaven.]
{Hashshamayim ooshemey hashshamayim} "the heavens and the heavens of heavens;" which words seem to imply that there are systems and systems of systems, each possessing its sun, its primary and secondary planets; all extending beyond each other in unlimited space, in the same regular and graduated order which we find to prevail in our solar system; which, probably, in its thousands of millions of miles in diameter, is, to some others, no more than the area of the lunar orbit to that of Georgium Sidus.
temple <01004> [how much.]
to <06437> [Have respect.]
<08085> [to hearken.]
watch <05869> [thine eyes.]
live <08034 07760> [put thy name.]
place ................ place <04725> [toward this place. or, in this place.]
<06419> [make. Heb. pray. thy dwelling place.]
forgive <05545> [forgive.]
sinning <02398> [sin.]
alleged offender <0423> [and an oath, etc. Heb. and he require an oath of him.]
alleged offender <0423> [the oath.]
heaven <08064> [from heaven.]
claims <07725> [requiting.]
<06663> [justifying.]
defeated <05062> [put to the worse. or, be smitten.]
sinned <02398> [because.]
back <07725> [shall return.]
pray <06419> [pray.]
temple <01004> [in. or, toward.]
forgive ... sin <02403 05545> [forgive the sin.]
gave <05414> [which thou.]
skies <08064> [the heaven.]
rain <04306> [there is no rain.]
prayers <06419> [if they pray.]
turn <07725> [turn.]
punish <06031> [thou dost.]
teach <03384> [when thou hast.]
right way <01870 02896> [good way.]
rain ........ given <04306 05414> [send rain.]
famine <07458> [if there be dearth.]
"Persia," says Chardin, "is subject to have its harvest spoiled by hail, by drought, or by insects; either locusts, or small insects, which they call {sim,} which are small white lice;" probably the caterpillars of the text.
locust <0697> [locusts.]
enemy <0341> [their enemies.]
land ....................... cities .... land <0776 08179> [cities of their land. Heb. land of their gates. whatsoever.]
pray <08605> [what prayer.]
acknowledge <03045> [know.]
spread out <06566> [spread forth.]
temple <01004> [in. or, toward.]
act <05414> [render.]
evaluation .............. evaluate <03045> [thou only.]
obeying <03372 03212> [fear thee.]
lifetimes <03117> [so long, etc. Heb. all the days which they live upon the face of the land.]
Foreigners <05237> [the stranger.]
come .................... come <0935> [is come.]
ability to accomplish mighty deeds <02389> [thy mighty.]
come .................... come <0935> [if they come.]
nations ............. people <05971> [that all people.]
nations ......... obey ..... people <03372 05971> [fear thee.]
temple <01004> [this house, etc. Heb. they name is called upon this house.]
people <05971> [thy people.]
toward <01870> [by the way.]
direct <06419> [they pray.]
toward <01870> [toward.]
listen ... heaven <08085 08064> [hear thou.]
vindicate <06213> [maintain.]
vindicate <04941> [cause. or, right.]
sin ........... sinless <02398> [they sin.]
one <0120> [for there is no man.]
angry <0599> [thou be angry.]
[they carry them away captives. Heb. they that take them captives carry them away.]
come ............... repent <07725> [Yet if.]
come ....... land ......... repent ......... land <07725 0776> [bethink themselves. Heb. bring back to their heart. We have sinned.]
return <07725> [return.]
direct ... prayers toward <01870 06419> [pray toward.]
city <05892> [the city.]
vindicate <04941> [cause. or, right.]
forgive <05545> [forgive.]
God <0430> [my God.]
<05869> [thine eyes.]
<0241> [thine ears.]
place <04725> [that is made in this place. Heb. of this place.]
ascend <06965> [arise.]
resting place <05118> [thy resting.]
ark <0727> [the ark.]
priests <03548> [thy priests.]
loyal followers <02623> [thy saints.]
reject <07725> [turn not.]
That is, "reject not thine anointed;" or, "repulse him not," agreeably to the interpretation of this phrase in the Syriac and Arabic versions.
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chosen ones <04899> [thine anointed.]
Remember <02142> [remember.]
faithful <02617> [the mercies.]
Or, as Dr. Geddes renders, "the pious deeds of thy servant David." The Syriac has, "the good actions of thy servant."
