2 Chronicles 5:2--6:42
Solomon <08010> [Then Solomon.]
leaders <05387> [the chief.]
ark <0727> [the ark.]
City <05892> [out.]
City <05892> [the city.]
Zion <06726> [which is Zion.]
men <0376> [Wherefore.]
festival <02282> [in the feast.]
That is, as the Targumist observes, in the feast of tabernacles, which was held in the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year, which was called Ethanim.
Levites <03881> [the Levites.]
Probably the Levites, of the family of Kohath, carried the ark into the courts of the temple; and then the priests conveyed it into its proper place.
tent ............... tent <0168> [the tabernacle.]
priests <03548> [the priests.]
inner sanctuary <01687> [to the oracle.]
poles <0905> [the staves.]
long <0748> [they drew.]
As the ark was no longer to be carried about, the staves were unnecessary.
ends <07218> [the ends.]
[there it is, or, they are there: as 1 Ki 8:8.]
day <03117> [unto this day.]
That is, the day when these events were recorded; not the day when these extracts were made, after the captivity, and consequently, long after the destruction of the temple.
ark <0727> [There was nothing.]
In the parallel passage in the Epistle to the Hebrews, it is expressly stated that in the ark were "the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;" but it is evident that the apostle speaks there of the tabernacle erected by Moses, and of the state and contents of that tabernacle in the time of Moses; and in the temple there were several things added, and several left out.
two <08147> [save.]
Lord ............ out <03068 03318> [when. or, where. the Lord.]
participated had <04672> [present. Heb. found. sanctified.]
who ......... division ... represented <04256 08104> [wait by course.]
Levites <03881> [the Levites.]
Asaph <0623> [Asaph.]
wore <03847> [arrayed.]
cymbals <04700> [cymbals.]
[and hundred.]
trumpeters <0259> [as one.]
trumpets <02689> [with the trumpets.]
good <02896> [he is good.]
temple <01004> [then the house.]
priests <03548> [the priests.]
splendor <03519> [the glory.]
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.
[See]
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."
