Lange Commentary - 2 Chronicles 7:11

Lange Commentary - 2 Chronicles 7:11 - 7:22

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Lange Commentary - 2 Chronicles 7:11 - 7:22

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. Revelation of the Lord to Solomon on the Completion of the Temple and his House 2Ch_7:11-22

^2Ch_7:11.And Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and in all that came into Solomon’s heart to do in the house of the Lord, and in his ¹²own house, he succeeded. And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. ¹³If I shut up heaven and there be no rain, or if I command ¹⁴the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people. And my people, on whom my name is called, humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and forgive their sin, and heal their land. ¹⁵Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent ¹⁶to the prayer of this place. And now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there¹⁷always. And thou, if thou walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and observe my statutes and my judgments: ¹⁸Then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom, as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not’ be cut off from theea man to rule in Israel. ¹⁹But if ye [and your children] turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them: ²⁰Then will I pluck them out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified to my name, will I east out of my sight, and make it a proverb and a byword among all nations. ²¹And this house, which was high, every passer-by shall be astonished at it, and he ²²shall say, Why hath the Lord done this unto this land and to this house? And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath He brought all this evil upon them.

EXEGETICAL

The parallel text 1Ki_9:1-9 agrees in substance, but often not in words, with our section; in particular, the latter contains some farther extensions and explanations of what is there commanded, and a longer independent addition, 2Ch_7:12 b

2Ch_7:16 a.

2Ch_7:11 b.—And all that came into Solomon’s heart. This is a paraphrase of åְàֶúÎëָּìÎçֵùֶׁ÷ ùְׁì× , “and all the desire of Solomon”; comp. also for çֵùֶׁ÷ , desire, 8:6.

2Ch_7:12. The Lord appeared to Solomon by night. The addition:“ the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon,” 1Ki_9:2, is wanting here. On the contrary, 1 Kings 9 : wants all that follows from “have chosen this place for myself” to “have chosen and sanctified this house,” 2Ch_7:16.

2Ch_7:13. If I shut up heaven and there be no rain; comp. 6:26, 28, where, among other land plagues, the three here mentioned, drought, locust, and pestilence, are named. The twofold äֵï is here equivalent to the àִí , “if,” appearing in the third place; comp. Isa_54:15; Jer_3:1; Job_40:23; and see our remark on the latter passage.

2Ch_7:14. And my people … humble themselves. Comp. 6:33; Deu_28:10; Jer_15:16; on 2Ch_7:15, comp. 6:40; on 2Ch_7:16, comp. 6:5, 6.

2Ch_7:17. And do according to all, literally, “to do,” etc. The åְ before ìַֽòֲùׂåֹú is redundant, and must apparently be erased according to 1 Kings 9 :

2Ch_7:18. As I have covenanted with David thy father. ëָּøַúִּé without the object áְּøִéú appears to be a mistake for ãִּáַּøְúִּé ; but comp. 5:10.—There shall not be cut off from thee a man to rule in Israel. For this in 1Ki_9:5 is: … “a man on the throne of Israel.” Our îåùׁì áéùׂøàì seems to be an unintentional variation of the text there, arising from a recollection of Mic_5:1.

2Ch_7:19. But if ye turn away. For the necessary supplement of åּáְðֵéëֶí ,“and your children,” comp. Crit. Note.

2Ch_7:20. Then will I pluck them; ðָúַùׁ (for the äִëְøִéú in 1Ki_9:7) in this sense also Deu_29:27; 1Ki_14:15. For the following: “casting out” of God’s sight, comp. Deu_9:17, Rev_2:5; for a “proverb and a byword among all all nations,” Deu_28:37, Jer_24:9.

2Ch_7:21. And this house, which was high. In favour of the here probably necessary emendation éִäְéֶä òִéִּéí , comp., besides the remark in the Crit. Note, Mic_3:12; Jer_26:18; Psa_79:1. For the following: “every passer-by shall be astonished,” comp. Jer_18:16; Jer_19:8.—Why hath the Lord done this. For áַּîֶּä 1 Kings has the more usual and intelligible òַìÎîָä .

Footnotes:

åּáְðֵéäֶí seems to have fallen out after àַúֶּí , not merely according to 1Ki_9:6, but according to the suffix of the 3d per. in ðְúַùְׁúִּéí (and also ìָäֶí ), 2Ch_7:20.

For òֶìְéåֹï , which the Vulg. does not give, and the Pesch. and Arab. render by “desolation,” òִéִּéí (ruinæ) appears to have originally stood in the text; thus instead of àֲùֶׁøÎäָéָä òֶìִéåֹï there was probably éִäְéֶä òִéִּéí , ruina fiet. In the parallel text 1Ki_9:8, indeed, òֶìְéåֹï stands, and the Sept. renders our passage: êáὶ ὁ ïἶêïò ïὗôïò ὁ ὑøçëüò .