2 Chronicles 6:6
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.]
2 Chronicles 33:4
built <01129> [he built.]
Jerusalem <03389> [In Jerusalem.]
2 Chronicles 7:16
chosen <0977> [have I chosen.]
<08034> [my name.]
<05869> [eyes.]
2 Chronicles 6:5
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.
2 Chronicles 7:14
people <05971> [my people.]
me <07121 08034> [which are called by my name. Heb. upon whom my name is called. humble.]
pray <06419> [and pray.]
seek .... me <06440 01245> [seek my face.]
repudiate ... sinful practices <07725 07451> [turn from.]
respond <08085> [will I hear.]
heal ... land <0776 07495> [heal their land.]
2 Chronicles 33:7
put .... image <06459 07760> [he set a carved image.]
The Targumist says, "He set up an image, the likeness of himself, in the house of the sanctuary." In the parallel passage it is, "a graven image of the grove," or rather, Asherah or Astarte. Manasseh, as Bp. Patrick observes, seems to have studied to find out what God had forbidden in his law, that he might practice it: a most prodigious change from the height of piety in his father's time, into the sink of impiety in this!
temple ............... temple <01004> [in the house.]
God's ..... God ... said <0559 0430> [God had said.]
<0977> [which I have.]
