“ And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods. ”
See 1 Kings 6:2 note. In Jewish eyes, at the time that the temple was built, it may have been “great,” that is to say, it may have exceeded the dimensions of any single separate building existing...
Preparations for the Building of the Temple (see notes on 1 Kings 5:5-18 ). Though the general narrative in the parallel passages is the same, the Chronicler's account varies in detail sufficientl...
great. In magnificence, not in size. Not for People; but, for Jehovah's presence with them.
And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.
Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and even...
Solomon's Negotiations with Hiram This chapter substantially reproduces 1 Kings 5 , with some differences in numbers, names, and expressions.
And the house which I build is great. — 1 Chronicles 29:1 . Great is our God above all gods. — Exodus 18 11; Deuteronomy 10:17 ; Psalms 77:13 ; Psalms 95:3 . According to modern notions o...
SOLOMON THE chronicler's history of Solomon is constructed on the same principles as that of David, and for similar reasons. The builder of the first Temple commanded the grateful reverence of a c...
The king's devotion to the highest work of his life was, however, unhindered, and the second chapter gives us the story of how he commenced his preparations for doing that work by new commercial trea...
The message here recorded, which Solomon sent to Hiram, is much more particularly related than the parallel one in the book of the Kings. I beg the Reader to mark this. There is very great beauty, as...
And the house which I build is great ,.... Not so very large, though that, with all apartments and courts belonging to it, he intended to build, was so; but because magnificent in its structure and...
And the house which I build [is] great: for great [is] our God above all gods. Ver. 5. And the house which I build is great. ] Excellently great, as he afterwards saith. 2Ch 2:9 For great is ou...
The house which I build is great Though the temple, strictly so called, was small, yet the buildings belonging to it were large and numerous. For great is our God above all gods Above all idols,...
SOLOMON'S REQUEST FROM HIRAM (vv.1-10). As the Lord had foretold to David, He worked upon Solomon's heart to make him determine to build both a temple for the Lord and a royal house for himself...
Preparations to Build the Temple. B. C. 1015. 1 And Solomon determined to build a house...
The house which I build is great; for though the temple strictly so called, was but small, yet the buildings belonging to it, both above and under ground, were large and numerous.
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter corresponds with 1 Kings 5 . It comprises preparations for building the temple ( 2 Chronicles 2:1-2 ); Solomon’s message to Huram ( 2 Chronicles 2:3-10 ); Huram’s reply...
2 Chronicles 2:1 . A house. The word temple among the Jews, gradually obtained from the Gentiles. The Egyptians were the first that built temples; the Greeks and the Tyrians followed, as they rose...
And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord. Solomon’s predestined work Solomon was born to do this work. There is no need for the rose to say, “Now I am going to be beaut...
EXPOSITION 2 Chronicles 2:1 In the Hebrew text this verse stands as the last of 2 Chronicles 1:1-14 . Determined . The Hebrew word is the ordinary word for "said;" as, e.g; in the expre...
Solomon's Message to Huram
1 Chronicles 16:25 ; 1 Chronicles 29:1 ; 1 Kings 9:8 ; 1 Timothy 6:15 ; 2 Chronicles 2:9 ; Exodus 15:11 ; Ezekiel 7:20 ; Jeremiah 10:6 ; Psalms 135:5 ; Psalms 145:3 ; Psalms 86:8 ; Psalms...
Great — For though the temple strictly so called, was but small, yet the buildings belonging to it, were large and numerous.