2Ki 16:14-18, 2Ch 28:24, 29:7 | TSK | STEP

the covert.There are a great number of conjectures concerning this covert; but it is probable that it was either, as Locke supposes, a sort of shelter or canopy erected for the people on the sabbath when the crowd was too great for the porch to contain them; or, as Dr. Geddes supposes, a seat, covered with a canopy, placed on an elevation, for the king and his court, when they attended public worship.

11:5; 1Ki 10:5; Eze 46:2

2 Chronicles 28:24

cut in pieces.

2Ki 16:17,18; 25:13-17

shut up.

29:3,7

he made.

33:3-5; Jer 2:28; Ho 12:11; Ac 17:16,23

2 Chronicles 29:7

Those, says Matthew Henry, who turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. The lamps were not lighted, and incense was not burnt: there are still such neglects as these, and they are no less culpable, if the Word be not duly read and opened, answering to the lighting of the lamps, and if prayers and praises be not duly offered up, which was signified by the burning of incense.

3; 28:24; Le 24:2-8; 2Ki 16:17,18; Mal 1:10