VI.
2. KING SOLOMON BLESSES HIS PEOPLE AND HIS GOD
(2 Chronicles 6:1-11.) (Comp. 1 Kings 8:12-21.)
This section also is in verbal agreement with the parallel account, with a few slight exceptions.
(1) The thick darkness. — ‘Araphel, which is explained as caligo nubium, “gloom of clouds.” (See Exodus 20:21; Deuteronomy 4:11; Psalms 18:9. Comp. the Greek, ὅρφνη.) The Targum on 1 Kings 8:12 reads Jerusalem, but this is probably a gloss.