Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 5:1-10
This agrees with what we had Kg1 8:2, etc., where an account was given of the solemn introduction of the ark into the new-erected temple. 1. There needed no great solemnity for the bringing in of the dedicated things, Ch2 5:1. They added to the wealth, and perhaps were so disposed as to add to the beauty of it; but they could not add to the holiness, for it was the temple that sanctified the gold, Mat 23:17. See how just Solomon was both to God and to his father. Whatever David had dedicated to God, however much he might have liked it himself, he would by no means alienate it, but put it among the treasures of the temple. Those children that would inherit their godly parents' blessing must r…
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BRINGING UP OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. (Ch2 5:2-13)
Then Solomon assembled . . . in the feast which was in the seventh month--The feast of the dedication of the temple was on the eighth day of that month. This is related, word for word, the same as in Kg1 8:1-10.
Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 5:3
The feast - "That is, the feast of tabernacles, which was held in the seventh month." - Targum. See Kg1 8:2.
John Gill on 2 Chronicles 5:1
See Chapter Introduction
Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Chronicles 5:2-3
The first part of the celebration was the transfer of the ark from Mount Zion to the temple (Ch2 5:2-14), and in connection with this we have the words in which Solomon celebrates the entry of the Lord into the new temple (Ch2 6:1-11). This section has been already commented on in the remarks on 1 Kings 8:1-21, and we have here, consequently, only to set down briefly those discrepancies between our account and that other, which have any influence upon the meaning. - In Ch2 5:3 the name of the month, האתנים בּירח (Kg1 8:2), with which the supplementary clause, "that is the seventh month," is there connected, is omitted, so that we must either change החדשׁ into בּחרשׁ, or supply the name of th…
