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Ask a QuestionThey offered at the dedication of this house of God 100 young bulls, 200 rams, 400 lambs, and, for a sin offering for all Israel, 12 he-goats, according to the number of Israel's tribes.
I ASK then: Has God totally rejected and disowned His people? Of course not! Why, I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin! [I Sam. 12:22; Jer. 31:37; 33:24-26; Phil. 3:5.]
And he built [heathen] altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put My See footnote on Deut. 12:5.Name [and the pledge of My presence].
[Aaron] who The law required that the high priest act just as impartially when one of his immediate family died, as if the departed were no kin to him (Lev. 21:10-12). This throws light on Christ's attitude toward His mother and brothers in Matt. 12:46-50 (see also Heb. 3:1-3; 8:1-6).said of his father and mother, I do not regard them; nor did he acknowledge his brothers or openly recognize his own children. For the priests observed Your word and kept Your covenant [as to their limitations].
Now therefore, O our God, listen to and heed the prayer of Your servant Compare this verse with Ezek. 14:12-20.[Daniel] and his supplications, and for Your own sake cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary which is desolate.
But the people sacrificed [to God] in the high places [as the heathen did to their idols], for there was no house yet built to the See footnote on Deut. 12:5.Name of the Lord.
And the Lord said to Jehu, Because you have executed well what is right in My eyes and have done to the house of Ahab as I willed, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on Israel's throne. [Fulfilled in II Kings 15:12.]
Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. See footnote on II Kings 12:1.Jehoash his son reigned in his stead.
David said to Solomon, My son, it was in my heart to build a house to the See footnote on Deut. 12:5.Name and [for the symbol of] the Presence of the Lord my God.
May the God Who has caused His See footnote on Deut. 12:5.Name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who put forth their hands to alter this or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be executed speedily and exactly.
The reverent fear and worship of the Lord is the beginning of See footnote on Job 28:12.Wisdom and skill [the preceding and the first essential, the prerequisite and the alphabet]; a good understanding, wisdom, and meaning have all those who do [the will of the Lord]. Their praise of Him endures forever. [Job. 28:28; Prov. 1:7; Matt. 22:37, 38; Rev. 14:7.]
And as for Ishmael, I have heard and heeded you: behold, I will bless him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly; He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. [Fulfilled in Gen. 25:12-18.]
He shall build a house for My "Name" is equivalent to "Me" in II Sam. 7:5. See also footnote on Deut. 12:5.Name [and My Presence], and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
You were in This speech, though not addressed to Satan in and of himself, seems to be ironically spoken against his evil genius fulfilling itself in and through the human ruler who appropriates to himself the honors due only to God, as in the case of the king of Babylon (Isa. 14:12-15). Here is to be seen a foreshadowing of "the beast" who is to attribute to himself divine rights in the time of the end (Dan. 7:8-28; II Thess. 2:1-12; Rev. 13; 19:20).Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the carnelian, topaz, jasper, chrysolite, beryl, onyx, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald; and your settings and your sockets and engravings were wrought in gold. On the day that you were created they were prepared.
The queen of the South will arise in the judgment with the people of this age and generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the [inhabited] earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and notice, John Wycliffe, The Wycliffe Bible.here is more than Solomon. [I Kings 10:1-13; II Chron. 9:1-12.]
At that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people tall and polished, from a people terrible from their beginning and feared and dreaded near and far, a nation strong and victorious, whose land the rivers or great channels divide--to the place [of worship] of the See footnote on Deut. 12:5.Name of the Lord of hosts, to Mount Zion [in Jerusalem].
For he was wiser "Wiser than all other men," until Christ came. Jesus said, "Someone more and greater than Solomon is here" (Matt. 12:42).than all other men--than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. His fame was in all the nations round about.
And [then dare to] come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My See footnote on Deut. 12:5.Name, and say, [By the discharge of this religious formality] we are set free!--only to go on with this wickedness and these abominations?
Being however a prophet, and knowing that God had sealed to him with an oath that He would set one of his descendants on his throne, [II Sam. 7:12-16; Ps. 132:11.]
There the Philistines left their The Israelites took as spoil the images of the Philistines, perhaps to display in triumphal procession, though they were afterward burned (I Chron. 14:12) in compliance with the law of Deut. 7:5, 25. Thus the old disgrace of the capture of the ark by the Philistines was avenged (I Sam. 4:4, 10, 11) (The Cambridge Bible).images, and David and his men took them away.