2 Chronicles 8:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

(c) REGULATION OF THE TEMPLE WORSHIP
(2 Chronicles 8:12-16).

This whole section corresponds to the single verse, 1 Kings 9:25, which the chronicler has paraphrased in 2 Chronicles 8:12-13, and extended by the addition of further details in 2 Chronicles 8:14-15.

(12) Then. — After the consecration of the Temple.

Offered. — Not once, but habitually; according to the prescriptions of the Mosaic Law (2 Chronicles 8:13).

On the altar... which he had built. — And apparently no longer at Gibeon (2 Chronicles 1:3).

Before the porch. — Not in Kings.

2 Chronicles 8:12

12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,