2 Chronicles 6:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. ”

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Kings (marginal references). Compare Kings (marginal references).
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 5:2 to 2 Chronicles 7:10 . The Dedication of the Temple (see notes on 1 Kings 8). The chief points of difference between the Chronicler's account and 1 Kings 8 are: ( a ) that in 2...
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

in the land. Hebrew "upon the face of the land". Figures of speech Pleonasm and Prosopopoeia. App-6.
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his rig...
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Solomon's Prayer The first 39 vv. of this chapter repeat 1 Kings 8:12-50 , the conclusion of the prayer, as given in 1 Kings 8:51-61 , being omitted and three additional vv. being substituted....
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

To walk in thy ways. — An explanatory remark added by the chronicler.
2 Chronicles 6:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the presence of the manifestation of glory the king pronounced a blessing on the people which merged into, or took the form of, a blessing offered to God, as he recounted the way of the divine gui...
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I refer the Reader to the observations made on this prayer already in the Commentary on the 1 Kings 8:1 . And only by way of enforcing what was there said, I would beseech the Reader, as he goeth ov...
2 Chronicles 6:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Chronicles 5:1 .
2 Chronicles 6:31 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

SOLOMON SPEAKS TO GOD AND TO THE PEOPLE (vv.1-11) Solomon began his inauguration address by first speaking to the Lord, reminding Him that He had said He would dwell in the dark cloud and that h...
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

12 And he stood before the altar of the L ORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands: 13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long,...
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Close parallelism of this chapter and 1 Kings 8:12-50 ; 2 Chronicles 6:13 only important variation. 2 Chronicles 6:1 (cf. Leviticus 16:1 ), darkness , not cloud, but of hol...
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Scofield Reference Notes

fear ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 6:41 . Thy saints. וחסידיךְ vakesidéka, thy merciful ones. Our Saviour describes the saints as showing mercy. Matthew 5:7 . The Lord will show mercy to them again, and cause them t...
2 Chronicles 6:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain. Perils to agriculture I. A rebuke to rationalism in natural evils. All meteorological phenomena are under God’s control. In all afflictive even...
2 Chronicles 6:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The first thirty-nine verses of this chapter (less the thirteenth) correspond very closely with the thirty-eight verses of the parallel that run 1 Kings 8:12-11 . For once also the t...
2 Chronicles 6:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Solomon's Dedicatory Prayer
2 Chronicles 6:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 12:24 ; Acts 9:31 ; Exodus 20:20 ; Job 28:28 ; Psalms 128:1 ; Psalms 130:4

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 6:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Chronicles 6:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Chronicles 6:31 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Scofield Reference Notes

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 6:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Chronicles 6:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Chronicles 6:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Chronicles 6:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge