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2 Chronicles

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Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the LORD’s glory filled the house. See also: 1 Kings 18:38 Leviticus 9:23-24 1 Chronicles 21:26The priests could not enter into the LORD’s house, because the LORD’s glory filled the LORD’s house. See also: Revelation 15:8 2 Chronicles 5:14 Exodus 24:17All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the LORD’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever!” See also: 2 Chronicles 5:13 2 Chronicles 20:21 Luke 1:50Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD. See also: 1 Kings 8:62-63King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated God’s house. See also: John 10:22 Ezekiel 45:17 2 Chronicles 30:24The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of the LORD, which David the king had made to give thanks to the LORD, when David praised by their ministry, saying “For his loving kindness endures forever.” The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood. See also: 2 Chronicles 5:12 2 Chronicles 7:3 1 Chronicles 15:16-21Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court that was before the LORD’s house holy; for there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat. See also: Hebrews 13:10-12 1 Kings 8:64-66 2 Chronicles 36:14So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt. See also: Genesis 15:18 1 Kings 8:65 Zechariah 14:16-19On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. See also: Leviticus 23:36 Joel 1:14 2 Chronicles 30:23On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that the LORD had shown to David, to Solomon, and to Israel his people. See also: 1 Kings 8:66 Psalms 100:2 2 Chronicles 6:41Thus Solomon finished the LORD’s house and the king’s house; and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the LORD’s house and in his own house. See also: 1 Kings 9:1-9 2 Chronicles 2:1 Ecclesiastes 2:10-11Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice. See also: Genesis 17:1 2 Chronicles 7:16 2 Chronicles 1:7“If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people, See also: 2 Chronicles 6:26-28 Deuteronomy 11:17 Revelation 11:6if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. See also: Lamentations 3:40-41 Isaiah 55:6-7 James 4:9-10Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place. See also: 1 Peter 3:12 2 Chronicles 6:40 2 Chronicles 6:20For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually. See also: 2 Chronicles 7:15 2 Chronicles 7:12 2 Chronicles 6:5-6“As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances, See also: Ezekiel 36:27 1 Kings 11:38 Zechariah 3:7then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’ See also: 2 Chronicles 6:16 Jeremiah 33:20-21 2 Samuel 7:13-16But if you turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, See also: Deuteronomy 28:15 Leviticus 26:14 Leviticus 26:33-46then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. See also: 2 Kings 17:20 Deuteronomy 28:37 1 Kings 9:7This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?’ See also: Jeremiah 22:8-9 Jeremiah 19:8 Jeremiah 16:10-12They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.’” See also: Lamentations 4:13-15 Daniel 9:12 Lamentations 2:16-17

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)8 notes

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 7:2

Ver. 2. Majesty; the cloud. For some time the priests were obliged to keep at a distance. They afterwards offered up many victims. C.

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2 Chronicles 7:3

Ver. 3. Glory. The same word was before rendered majesty. H.

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2 Chronicles 7:4

Ver. 4. Victims, by the hands of the priests: or they slew them themselves, and presented the blood and fat to be placed on the altar by the priests.

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2 Chronicles 7:5

Ver. 5. Rams, including sheep and goats. --- People, each in their proper sphere. The priests had the chief part, as the ministers of religion. The solemnity continued for a week, and many altars were erected in the court. C.

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2 Chronicles 7:6

Ver. 6. Which music, or Psalms, ( carminum) David had composed. H. ---

Because. This was the chorus of the 135th Psalm, which was sung on this occasion by some, while others played on their musical instruments. C. --- Lit.

" singing by their hands." Prot. "when David praised by their ministry." H. ---

As the temple was chosen by God for the place of prayer, so special forms of blessing, &c. are more agreeable to him. W.

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2 Chronicles 7:9

Ver. 9. Solemnity of tabernacles, (M.) which ensued after the dedication was ended.

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2 Chronicles 7:10

Ver. 10. Day. He had given them leave to depart, the day before. 3 K. viii. 66.

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2 Chronicles 7:14

Ver. 14. Face, to appease me, that I may look down upon them in mercy. C.

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License: 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

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