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Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. See also: Exodus 20:21Psalms 18:8-11Leviticus 16:2But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.” See also: 2 Chronicles 2:4-61 Chronicles 17:12Psalms 132:5The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood. See also: 1 Kings 8:14Matthew 13:2Joshua 22:6He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying, See also: Psalms 72:18-19Matthew 24:35Psalms 68:32-35‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there, and I chose no man to be prince over my people Israel; See also: 1 Samuel 10:242 Samuel 7:15-16Daniel 9:19but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’ See also: Psalms 132:131 Chronicles 28:42 Chronicles 12:13Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. See also: 1 Chronicles 17:11 Kings 5:31 Chronicles 22:7But the LORD said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart; See also: 1 Kings 8:18-21Mark 14:82 Corinthians 8:12nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’ See also: 1 Chronicles 17:11-121 Chronicles 17:42 Samuel 7:12-13“The LORD has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. See also: 1 Chronicles 29:151 Chronicles 28:51 Chronicles 17:11There I have set the ark, in which is the LORD’s covenant, which he made with the children of Israel.” See also: 2 Chronicles 5:102 Chronicles 5:7Exodus 40:20He stood before the LORD’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands See also: Isaiah 50:10Psalms 63:4Exodus 9:33(for Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven). See also: 1 Kings 8:54Nehemiah 8:4Ezra 9:5Then he said, “LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth—you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart; See also: Exodus 15:11Deuteronomy 7:9Nehemiah 1:5who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today. See also: 1 Chronicles 22:9-102 Samuel 7:121 Kings 8:24“Now therefore, LORD, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’ See also: 1 Kings 2:4Psalms 132:12John 15:14-15Now therefore, LORD, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David. See also: Jeremiah 11:52 Samuel 7:25-292 Chronicles 6:4“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built! See also: 2 Chronicles 2:6Isaiah 66:1Psalms 139:7-10Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you; See also: 1 Kings 8:28Psalms 130:2Psalms 20:1-3that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name, to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place. See also: Psalms 34:15Psalms 121:52 Chronicles 6:6Listen to the petitions of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive. See also: Micah 7:18Isaiah 43:25Daniel 9:19“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house, See also: Exodus 22:11Matthew 23:18Leviticus 5:1then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. See also: Ezekiel 18:20Isaiah 3:10-11Jeremiah 51:56“If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house, See also: Leviticus 26:17Deuteronomy 4:29-31Deuteronomy 28:25then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers. See also: Jeremiah 33:6-13Ezra 1:1-6Joshua 21:43“When the sky is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and confess your name, and turn from their sin when you afflict them, See also: Leviticus 26:19Deuteronomy 28:23Deuteronomy 11:17then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. See also: Jeremiah 5:24Zechariah 10:11 Kings 8:35-36“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is— See also: Ruth 1:1Revelation 9:3-11Joel 2:25whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house, See also: Proverbs 14:10Psalms 142:1-2Psalms 33:12-13then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men), See also: 1 Chronicles 28:91 Samuel 16:7Revelation 2:23that they may fear you, to walk in your ways as long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. See also: 1 Samuel 12:24Psalms 128:1Job 28:28“Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for your great name’s sake and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house, See also: Isaiah 56:3-71 Kings 8:41-43Matthew 8:10-11then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. See also: 2 Chronicles 7:14Jeremiah 10:7Isaiah 54:1-3“If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name; See also: 2 Chronicles 20:6-13Joshua 1:2-52 Chronicles 14:9-12then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. See also: Psalms 9:3-4Jeremiah 5:28Isaiah 37:21-36“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near; See also: 1 John 1:8-10Ecclesiastes 7:20James 3:2yet if they come to their senses in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’ See also: Jeremiah 31:18-20Isaiah 64:6-12Daniel 9:5-11if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and pray toward their land which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name; See also: Joel 2:12-13Daniel 9:3-4Deuteronomy 30:2-6then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you. See also: Psalms 25:18Micah 7:18-202 Chronicles 6:35“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. See also: 2 Chronicles 7:15Psalms 116:2Psalms 17:1“Now therefore arise, LORD God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness. See also: Isaiah 61:101 Chronicles 28:2Revelation 19:8“LORD God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.” See also: Isaiah 55:3Psalms 132:11 Kings 1:34
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
2 Chronicles 6:1
Ver. 1. Cloud: lit. "darkness." H. --- The promise had been made to Moses. Ex.
xvi. 10. and xl 32. C. --- God thus manifested his presence. W.
↑ 12 Chronicles 6:12
Ver. 12. Hands. Such external gestures promote attention in prayer; and hence were much used by holy people, at all times. W.
↑ 122 Chronicles 6:13
Ver. 13. Scaffold, ( basim. ) The Heb. ( kiyor) is used for "a shell, ( concha. T.) or bowl," as the throne was probably of the same form, and was placed on a square pedestal, at the higher end of the court of the people, (C.) which is here styled the temple, (basilicæ) or "hall." C. iv. 9. Sept.
aules. Heb. chatsar, which denotes that great court where (H.) the body of the people stood bare-headed, before the Lord, (Grot. &c. C. xx. 5.) in the open air.
D. --- We are assured that the king himself never sat in his tribune. C. --- Others reserve that privilege to him alone. H. --- While he addressed the people, he turned towards them.
↑ 132 Chronicles 6:19
Ver. 19. End. Temples are erected for the convenience of men. C. --- Solomon hopes that God will reward his good intentions.
↑ 192 Chronicles 6:22
Ver. 22. Altar; thus solemnly consenting to be punished by God, if he swear falsely. H. --- This practice was not prescribed by the law, but took place when witnesses could not be procured, or when it was necessary to rely on the word of the accused.
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Ver. 28. Blasting, or mildew, ( ærugo & aurugo. ) The first has the colour of brass, the other of gold. both have nearly the same import. M. --- One of the terms is rendered, corrupt air; (3 K.
viii. 37. C.) as this is one of the great causes why both plants and animals do not thrive. Sept.
"corruption of the air and king's evil, or yellow jaundice:" ikteros. H.
↑ 282 Chronicles 6:29
Ver. 29. Any. Heb. adds, "man, or thy people." Sept. "and ( that is) to thy." See v. 32. H. ---
Both strangers and Israelites may there sue for mercy, and obtain it. C. ---
From this chapter, as well as from many other passages, it is evident that places consecrated to God, are more acceptable to him than other places; (W.) and here the prayers of the faithful are sooner heard, as they testify their unity.
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Ver. 31. Fear thee, being filled with awe at the sight of thy judgments. C.
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Ver. 33. House, that they may know that this is not only called, but is, in effect, the temple of the Lord, where he will display his power and goodness. H.
↑ 332 Chronicles 6:38
Ver. 38. Name. Hence arose the custom of turning towards Jerusalem and the temple, when the Jews poured for their supplications, in any country. 3 K. viii.
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↑ 382 Chronicles 6:41
Ver. 41. Now, therefore. This is taken from Ps. cxxxi. 8. 9. 10. (M.) almost word for word. We do not find that Solomon spoke this, 3 K. C. --- Place: lit. "rest."
H. --- Come, O Lord, and dwell here. --- Strength, by which thy wonders shine forth, and thy enemies are dismayed. The ark is styled the strength of Israel, Ps. lxxvii. 61. and lxii. 3.; and in the parallel passage we read, Thou and the ark of they sanctification, or sanctuary, which is its highest ornament, and which thou hast sanctified, or required to be treated with respect. --- Salvation, or justice, (Ps. cxxxi.) which is the surest method of obtaining happiness.
↑ 412 Chronicles 6:42
Ver. 42. Anointed. Cover not with shame the king, whom thou hast appointed, (H.) nor reject my prayer. T. --- Mercies, which thou hast shewn, or rather (C.) the acts of virtue which thy servant displayed. Syr. &c. For thy servant David's sake, turn not away the face of thy anointed. Ps.
cxxxi. In consideration of his merits, grant my request. C. --- Even Solomon, though at this time the object of God's complacency, disdains not to screen himself under the merits of the departed saints. H.
↑ 42License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses