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If any man.Solomon here puts seven cases, in all of which the mercy and intervention of God would be indispensably requisite; and he earnestly bespeaks that mercy and intervention, on condition that the people pray towards that holy place, and with a feeling heart make earnest supplication to the throne of mercy.

trespass.

2Ch 6:22,23

an oath be laid upon him. Heb. he require an oath of him.

Ex 22:8-11; Le 5:1; Pr 30:9

the oath.

Nu 5:16-22

hear thou.

condemning.

Ex 34:7; Nu 5:27; De 25:1; Pr 1:31; Isa 3:10,11; Eze 18:13,30

Ro 2:6-10

justifying.

Ex 23:7; Pr 17:15; Isa 3:10; Eze 18:20; Ro 2:13; 7:9

smitten down.

Le 26:17,25; De 28:25,48; Jos 7:8; 2Ch 6:24,25; Ps 44:10

because they have.

Jos 7:11,12; Jud 6:1,2; 2Ki 17:7-18; 18:11,12; 2Ch 36:14-17

turn again.

Le 26:39-42; Ne 1:8,9; Jon 3:10

pray.

Ezr 9:5-15; Ne 9:1-3,4,5; Isa 63:15-19; 64:1-66:24; Da 9:3-19

in. or, toward.

forgive the sin.

30; Ezr 1:1-6; Ps 106:47; Jer 31:4-9,27; 32:37; 33:10-13

Da 9:12,19,25; Am 7:2

which thou gavest.

Ge 13:15; Ex 6:8; Jos 21:43

heaven.

17:1; Le 26:19; De 11:17; 28:12,23,24; 2Sa 24:13; Jer 14:1-7

Eze 14:13; Mal 3:10; Lu 4:25; Re 11:6

if they pray.

33; 2Ch 6:24,26; Ro 10:9; 15:9

confess.

29,30; Joe 1:13-20; 2:15-17

and turn.

33; Isa 1:15,16; 9:13; Eze 18:30-32; Ho 14:1

thou teach.

Ps 25:4,5,8,12; 27:11; 32:8; 94:12; 119:33; 143:8; Isa 35:8; Mic 4:2

the good way.

1Sa 12:23; 2Ch 6:26,27; Isa 30:21; Jer 6:16; 42:3; Mt 22:16

give rain.

18:1,27-40,45; Ps 68:9; Jer 14:22; Jas 5:17,18

in the land famine.

Le 26:16,25,26-46; De 28:21,22,25,38-42,52-61; 2Ki 6:25-29

1Ch 21:12; 2Ch 6:28-31; 20:9; Ps 105:34,35; Jer 32:2; 39:1-3

Eze 14:21; Joe 1:4-7; 2:25,26

cities. or, jurisdiction.

prayer.

2Ch 20:5-13; Ps 50:15; 91:15; Isa 37:4,15-21; Joe 2:17; Am 7:1-6

the plague.

2Ch 6:29; Job 7:11; Ps 32:3,4; 42:6,9,11; 73:21,22; 142:3-5

Pr 14:10; Ro 7:24; Php 4:6

spread forth.

22; Isa 1:15

Then hear.

32,36

give to every man.

Ps 18:20-26; 28:4; Jer 17:10; 32:19; Eze 18:30; Re 22:12

for thou.

1Sa 16:7; 1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 6:30; Ps 11:4,5; Joh 2:25; 21:17; Ac 1:24

Heb 4:12,13; Re 2:23

fear thee.

Ge 22:12; Ex 20:20; De 6:2,13; 1Sa 12:24; Ps 115:13; 130:4

Jer 32:39,40; Ho 3:5; Ac 9:31; 10:2; Heb 12:28; Re 15:4; 19:5

a stranger.

10:1,2; Ru 1:16; 2:11; 2Ch 6:32; Isa 56:3-7; Mt 8:5,10,11; 15:22-28

Lu 17:18; Joh 12:20; Ac 10:1-4

cometh out.

10:1,2; Ex 18:8-12; 2Ki 5:1-7,16,17; Isa 60:1-10; Mt 2:1; 12:42

Ac 8:27-40

For they shall.

Ex 15:14; De 4:6; Jos 2:10,11; 9:9,10; 2Ch 32:31; Da 2:47; 3:28

Da 4:37

great name.

Ex 3:13-16; 34:5-7; Jos 7:9; Ps 86:8,9; Eze 20:9

thy strong hand.

Ex 3:19; 9:15; 13:14; De 3:24; 4:34; 11:2,3; 2Ki 17:36; Ps 89:13

Ps 136:12; Isa 51:9; 63:12; Jer 31:11; 32:17

when he shall.

Isa 66:19,20; Jer 3:19; Zec 14:16; Ac 8:27

that all the people.

1Sa 17:46; 2Ki 19:19; 2Ch 6:33; Ps 22:27; 67:2; 72:10,11; 86:9

Isa 11:9; Re 11:15

fear thee.

Ps 102:15; 117:1,2

this house. Heb. thy name is called upon this house.

go out to battle.

De 20:1-4; 31:3-6; Jos 1:2-5; 2Ch 6:34

whithersoever.

Nu 31:1-12; Jos 6:2-5; 8:1,2; Jud 1:1,2; 4:6; 6:14; 1Sa 15:3,18

1Sa 30:8; 2Sa 5:19,23

shall pray.

2Ch 14:9-12; 18:31; 20:6-13; 32:20

toward the city. Heb. the way of the city.

16; Ps 78:67-69; 132:13,14; Da 9:17-19

cause. or, right.

Ge 18:25; Ps 9:4; Jer 5:28

If they sin.The second clause of this verse, as it is here translated, renders this supposition entirely nugatory; for if there be no man that sinneth not, it is useless to say, if they sin: but this objection is removed by rendering the original, "If they shall sin against thee, (for there is no man that, {lo yechetai,} may not sin;") i.e., there is no man impeccable or infallible; none that is not liable to transgress.

there is no man.

2Ch 6:36; Job 14:4; 15:14-16; Ps 19:12; 130:3; 143:2; Pr 20:9

Ec 7:20; Isa 53:6; 64:6; Ro 3:19; Ga 3:22; Jas 3:2; 1Jo 1:8-10

unto the land.

Le 26:34-39; De 4:26,27; 28:36,64-68; 29:28; 2Ki 17:6,18,23; 25:21

Da 9:7-14; Lu 21:24

Yet if they.

Le 26:40-45; De 4:29-31; 30:1,2; 2Ch 6:37; 33:12,13; Eze 16:61,63

Eze 18:28; Hag 1:7; Lu 15:17

bethink themselves. Heb. bring back to their heart. saying.

Ezr 9:6,7; Ne 1:6-11; 9:26-30; Ps 106:6; Isa 64:6-12; Da 9:5-11

Zec 12:10

done perversely.

Job 33:27,28; Jer 31:18-20; Lu 15:18

And so return.

De 4:29; 6:5,6; Jud 10:15,16; 1Sa 7:3,4; Ne 1:9; Ps 119:2,10,145

Pr 23:26; Isa 55:6,7; Jer 3:10; 24:7; 29:12-14; Da 9:13; Ho 14:1,2

Ac 8:37; Ro 10:10

pray unto.

29,30; Da 6:10

the city.

Then hear.

cause. or, right.

45; 2Ki 19:19; Zec 1:15,16

and give them.

2Ch 30:9; Ezr 7:6,27,28; Ne 1:11; 2:4-8; Ps 106:46; Pr 16:7

Da 1:9,10; Ac 7:10

thy people.

53; Ex 32:11,12; Nu 14:13-19; De 9:26-29; 2Ch 6:39; Ne 1:10

Isa 63:16-18; 64:9; Jer 51:19

the furnace.

De 4:20; Jer 11:4

That thine.

29; 2Ch 6:40

in all that.

Ps 86:5; 145:18

separate.

Ex 19:5,6; 33:16; Nu 23:9; De 4:34; 7:6-8; 9:26,29; 14:2; 32:9

2Co 6:14-18; Tit 2:14; 1Pe 2:9

thine inheritance.

De 32:9; Jer 10:16; Eph 1:18

as thou.

De 33:1-3,26-29

when Solomon.

Lu 11:1; 22:45

kneeling.

2Ch 6:13; Ps 95:6; Lu 22:41,45; Ac 20:36; 21:5

with his hands.

22; 2Ch 6:12

blessed.

14; Nu 6:23-26; 2Sa 6:18; 1Ch 16:2

Blessed be.

hath given rest.

De 3:20; 12:10,12; Jos 21:44; 2Ch 14:6; Heb 4:3-9

there.

Jos 21:45; 23:14,15; Lu 1:54,55,72,73; 21:33

failed. Heb. fallen.

1Sa 3:19; 2Ki 10:10

De 31:6,8; Jos 1:5,9; 1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 32:7,8; Ps 46:7,11; Isa 8:10

Isa 41:10; Mt 1:23; 28:20; Ro 8:31; Heb 13:5

incline.

Ps 110:3; 119:36; So 1:4; Jer 31:33; Eze 36:26,27; Php 2:13

Heb 13:21

his commandments.

De 4:1,45; 6:1

let these my words.This and the following verse are a sort of supplement to the prayer; and there is an important addition to this prayer in 2 Ch 6:41, 42, apparently taken from one of the Psalms.

nigh.

Ps 102:1,2; 141:2; Joh 17:9,20-24; 1Jo 2:2

at all times. Heb. the thing of a day in his day.

Lu 11:3

as the matter.

De 33:25

That all.

43; Jos 4:24; 1Sa 17:46; 2Ki 19:19

the Lord.

18:39; De 4:35,39; Isa 44:6,8,24; 45:5,6,22; Jer 10:10-12

Joe 2:27

perfect.

11:4; 15:3,14; Ge 17:1; De 18:13; 2Ki 20:3; 1Ch 28:9; Job 1:1,8

Ps 37:37; 2Co 7:1; Php 3:12-16

2Sa 6:17-19; 2Ch 7:4-7

a sacrifice.

Le 3:1-17; 1Ch 29:21; 2Ch 15:11; 29:32-35; 30:24; 35:7-9

Ezr 6:16,17; Eze 45:17; Mic 6:7

two and twenty.We are not to suppose that all these victims were sacrificed in one day, or on one altar; for this was the whole amount of those that had been offered during the fourteen days which the feast of dedication and the feast of tabernacles lasted; and there appears to have been an altar erected in the middle of the court, which was set apart for that purpose, in consequence of the great altar of burnt offering being not sufficient for the multitude of sacrifices then offered.

dedicated.

Nu 7:10,11,84-88; 2Ch 2:4; 7:5; Ezr 6:16,17; Ne 12:27; Joh 10:22

hallow.

2Ch 7:7

the brasen.

2Ch 4:1

held.

2; Le 23:34-43; 2Ch 7:8,9

a great.

2Ch 30:13; Ps 40:9,10

from the entering.

4:21,24; Nu 34:5,8; Jos 13:5; Jud 3:3; 2Ki 14:25; Am 6:14

the river.

Ge 15:18; Ex 23:31; Nu 34:5; Jos 13:3

seven days.

2Ch 7:8,9; 30:23

the eighth day. In the parallel passage of Chronicles this is termed "the three and twentieth day of the seventh month;" that is, the ninth day of the dedication; which Jarchi reconciles by supposing that Solomon gave them leave to return on the eighth day, and many of them did return; and that he dismissed the remainder on the ninth, or twenty-third of the seventh month: See Note on ver. 1.

2Ch 7:10; 31:1

blessed. or, thanked.

1,47

joyful.

De 12:7,12,18; 16:11; 2Ch 29:36; 30:26,27; Ne 8:10; Ps 95:1,2

Ps 100:1,2; 106:4,5; 122:6,9; Isa 61:9,10; 66:13,14; Jer 31:12-14

Zep 3:14; Zec 9:9,17; Ac 2:46; Ga 5:22; Php 4:4