Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 6:12–end
Solomon had, in the foregoing verses, signed and sealed, as it were, the deed of dedication, by which the temple was appropriated to the honour and service of God. Now here he prays the consecration-prayer, by which it was made a figure of Christ, the great Mediator, through whom we are to offer all our prayers, and to expect all God's favours, and to whom we are to have an eye in every thing where we have to do with God. We have opened the particulars of this prayer (1 Kings 8) and therefore shall now only glean up some few passages in it which may be the proper subjects of our meditation.
I. Here are some doctrinal truths occasionally laid down. As, 1. That the God of Israel is a being of…
Read the whole note in the consoleAdam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 6:10
For the name of the Lord - "For the name of the Word of the Lord God of Israel." - Targum.
John Gill on 2 Chronicles 6:1
See Introduction to Chapter 5
Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Chronicles 6:12–end
Solomon's dedicatory prayer likewise corresponds exactly with the account of it given in 1 Kings 8:22-53 till near the end (Ch2 6:40-42), where it takes quite a different turn. Besides this, in the introduction (Ch2 6:13) Solomon's position during the prayer is more accurately described, it being there stated that Solomon had caused a high stage (כּיּור, a basin-like elevation) to be erected, which he ascended, and kneeling, spoke the prayer which follows. This fact is not stated in Kg1 8:22, and Then. and Berth. conjecture that it has been dropped out of our text only by mistake. Perhaps so, but it may have been passed over by the author of the books of Kings as a point of subordinate impor…
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