2 Chronicles 6:1, Solomon, having blessed the people, blesses God; 2 Chronicles 6:12, Solomon’s prayer in the consecration of the temple, upon the brasen scaffold, etc.
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2 Chronicles 6
2 Chronicles 6 — Overview
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2 Chronicles 6 — Overview2 Chronicles 6 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe glory of the Lord, in the vehicle of a thick cloud, having filled
the house which Solomon built, by which God manifested his presence
there, he immediately improves the opportunity, and addresses God, as a…2 Chronicles 6:1-112 Chronicles 6:1-11 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIt is of great consequence, in all our religious actions, that we
design well, and that our eye be single. If Solomon had built this
temple in the pride of his heart, as Ahasuerus made his feast, only to
show…2 Chronicles 6:1-422 Chronicles 6:1-42 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITION
The first thirty-nine verses of this chapter (less the thirteenth) correspond very closely with the thirty-eight verses of the parallel that run 1 Kings 8:12-50. For once also the two places are in closer…2 Chronicles 6:1-422 Chronicles 6:1-42 · The Pulpit Commentary2 Chronicles 6:18-21
God in the sanctuary.
These elevated and eloquent words suggest to us what is—
I. A FALSE THOUGHT OF GOD IN RELATION TO THE SANCTUARY. It may be, and probably is, imagined by the idolatrous that…2 Chronicles 6:1-422 Chronicles 6:1-42 · The Pulpit Commentary2. The sinfulness of man opposes it. Had the thing itself—the fellowship of God with man—been in reason's eyes conceivable, it would still have been negatived by the fact of man's fallen and degraded condition, with…2 Chronicles 6:12 Chronicles 6:1 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeThe Lord: Exodus 20:21, Exodus 24:15-18; Leviticus 16:2; Deuteronomy 4:11; 1 Kings 8:12-21; Psalms 18:8-11, Psalms 97:2; Nahum 1:3; Hebrews 12:18