Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’ But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them; then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’ and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’ ”
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When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’ But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them; then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’ and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’ ”
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Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’
But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;
then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’
and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’ ”
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That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
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that the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
And the LORD said unto him: 'I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put My name there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.
And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before Me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep My statutes and Mine ordinances;
then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever; according as I promised to David thy father, saying: There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word among all peoples;
and this house which is so high shall become desolate, and every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and when they shall say: Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
they shall be answered: Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them; therefore hath the LORD brought all this evil upon them.'
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- 1 Kings 3:5 (v2) In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”
- 1 Kings 8:29 (v3) that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to…
- 2 Kings 20:5 (v3) “Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen…
- Psalms 10:17 (v3) Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
- 1 John 5:14 (v3) This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
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- Psalms 116:1 (v3) I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
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- Deuteronomy 11:12 (v3) a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
- Deuteronomy 29:24-26 (v8) Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?” Then men will say,…
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- Deuteronomy 28:37 (v7) You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
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- 1 Kings 11:6 (v4) Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.
- 1 Kings 11:9 (v2) Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
- 2 Chronicles 6:40 (v3) “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.
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- Jeremiah 2:19 (v9) “Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing,…
- Exodus 20:11 (v3) for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the…
- Leviticus 18:24-28 (v7) “ ‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. The land…
- Deuteronomy 28:1 (v4) It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you…
- 2 Samuel 7:12 (v5) When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body,…
- 2 Samuel 7:16 (v5) Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.” ’ ”
- 1 Kings 11:38 (v4) It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my…
- 1 Kings 14:8 (v4) and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and…
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- Proverbs 28:18 (v4) Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
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- Matthew 6:9 (v3) Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
- Luke 1:6 (v4) They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
- Luke 21:24 (v7) They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles,…
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- Deuteronomy 29:26-28 (v7) and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them. Therefore Yahweh’s anger…
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- 1 Kings 8:25 (v4) Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall…
- 1 Chronicles 22:9-10 (v5) Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall…
- 1 Chronicles 28:9 (v6) You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all…
- 2 Chronicles 7:15-16 (v3) Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place. For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that…
- 2 Chronicles 7:17-18 (v4) “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…
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- 2 Chronicles 7:22 (v9) They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other…
- 2 Chronicles 36:19 (v7) They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable…
- Job 23:11-12 (v4) My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away. I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have…
- Psalms 15:2 (v4) He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
- Psalms 26:1 (v4) Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
- Psalms 89:28-39 (v5) I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him. I will also make his offspring endure forever,…
- Psalms 132:11-12 (v5) Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne. If your children will keep…
- Song of Solomon 4:9-10 (v3) You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck. How…
- Jeremiah 2:10-13 (v9) For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing. Has a…
- Jeremiah 15:1 (v3) Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight,…
- Jeremiah 19:8 (v8) I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
- Jeremiah 22:28 (v8) Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast…
- Jeremiah 26:6 (v7) then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”
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- Ezekiel 33:27-29 (v7) “You shall tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give he…
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- 1 Kings 9:3 (v7) Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you…
- 1 Kings 11:4-10 (v6) When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of…
- 2 Kings 17:20-23 (v7) Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of…
- 2 Chronicles 7:19-22 (v6) But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and…
- 2 Chronicles 15:2 (v6) and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if…
- Nehemiah 4:1-4 (v7) But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews. He spoke before his…
- Psalms 66:19 (v3) But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.
- Psalms 89:30 (v6) If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
- Psalms 89:32 (v6) then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- Proverbs 10:9 (v4) He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
- Proverbs 20:7 (v4) A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
- Isaiah 64:11 (v8) Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste.
- Isaiah 65:15 (v7) You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,
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- Jeremiah 12:7-8 (v9) “I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. My…
- Jeremiah 16:10-13 (v9) It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or…
- Jeremiah 26:18 (v7) “Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies…
- Jeremiah 49:17 (v8) “Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues.
- Jeremiah 50:7 (v9) All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation…
- Jeremiah 50:13 (v8) Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv4, 6, 7 If thou walk in my fear, and withdraw thyself…
If thou walk in my fear, and withdraw thyself from the common manner of men, which follow their sensuality.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv2–9 1Ki 9:2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the…
1Ki 9:2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
Ver. 2. That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time.] This was a great engagement upon Solomon to cleave close to that God who had appeared unto him twice. {1Ki 11:9} See an analogical appearance to all that love him, {Joh 14:21} and be instructed, lest God’s soul depart from us, {Jer 6:8} for our "evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God." {Heb 3:12}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv2–8 To wit, in a dream or vision; for that…
To wit, in a dream or vision; for that which is mentioned 1Ki 6:11, seems to have been imparted unto him by some prophet or messenger sent from God with that errand. The time of this revelation was either,
1. After all Solomon’s buildings, as the words thus rendered plainly imply. And if it seem strange that God should not reveal this purpose and sentence of his concerning the temple till so many years after the finishing of it, it must be considered,
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1. That as it is an act of God’s singular grace when he doth thus reveal himself to any person, so it is but meet he should choose his own time for it.
2. That God had presently after the finishing of the temple, at the feast of the dedication of it, sufficiently showed his acceptance and approbation of it by that glorious cloud, 1Ki 8:10,11, and therefore this revelation was not then necessary.
3. That God might choose this as the fittest time for giving Solomon the following admonition, when he perceived that his heart befall to be lifted up in pride for his sumptuous and magnificent buildings, &c., and that he was grown vain, and careless, and secure; and therefore most needed such all awakening oracle. Or,
2. Presently after the building of the temple, as may be thought from the matter of this revelation, which seems best to suit with that time when it was newly built, and when Solomon’s prayer here mentioned was newly made; for seeing the following words contain God’s answer to that prayer, it seems improbable, that the answer should come so many years after it. But then this second verse, and the rest, even to 1Ki 9:11, are to be enclosed with a parenthesis; and the place must be thus rendered, 1Ki 9:2, For (so the Hebrew vau is oft rendered) the Lord appeared, or had appeared, to Solomon, &c.; 1Ki 9:3, And the Lord had said unto him, &c. And this parenthesis may seem to have a foundation in 1Ki 9:10, where the first verse (in substance, though not in the very same words) is repeated, as is usual after long digressions; and then he completes the sentence, 1Ki 9:11, &c., which till then had been suspended. Nor are such long parentheses without example in Scripture. See my Latin Synopsis on Rom 5:12, &c.; Eph 3:1, &c. Rev 22:7.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv2–9 That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time,....…
That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time,.... Junius and Tremellius read this verse with the following, to the end of the ninth, in a parenthesis, and render this clause, "for the Lord had appeared", &c. and Piscator translates it, "moreover the Lord appeared", &c. as beginning a distinct narrative from the former; and indeed if the words are to be connected with the preceding, as in our version, this appearance must be thirteen years after the building of the temple, which is not probable; but rather it was the night after the dedication of it, when an answer was returned to Solomon's prayer in the preceding chapter; for that it should be deferred twelve or thirteen years is not reasonable to suppose; and this appearance was the second of the kind and manner:
as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon; in a dream and a vision, and by night, Kg1 3:5, see Ch2 7:12.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv3, 5, 8 For ever - As long as the Mosaic dispensation…
For ever - As long as the Mosaic dispensation lasts; whereas hitherto my worship has been successively in several places. Eyes - My watchful and gracious providence. Heart - My tender affection. Shall be there - Shall be towards this place and people.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv2, 7, 9 Verse 2. The Lord appeared to Solomon] The design…
Verse 2. The Lord appeared to Solomon] The design of this appearance, which was in a dream, as that was at Gibeon, was to assure Solomon that God had accepted his service, and had taken that house for his dwelling-place, and would continue it, and establish him and his descendants upon the throne of Israel for ever, provided they served him with an upright heart; but, on the contrary, if they forsook him, he would abandon both them and his temple.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv3, 4, 6, 8 1Ki 9:3. The Lord said, I have heard thy…
1Ki 9:3. The Lord said, I have heard thy prayer — This shows that the first verse is to be understood as we have just stated: for otherwise we must suppose this appearance of God to Solomon to have taken place, and this answer to have been given to his prayer, eleven years after he had finished the house, and addressed that prayer to him at the dedication of it; which is very unlikely. I have hallowed this house — By my glorious presence in the cloud, and by my acceptance of thy sacrifices. I have sanctified it to my proper use and service. Solomon had dedicated it, but it was God’s prerogative to hallow or consecrate it. Men cannot make a place holy; yet what we in sincerity devote to God, we may hope he will graciously accept as his. To put my name there for ever — As long as the Mosaic dispensation lasts: whereas hitherto my worship has been successively in several places. And mine eyes — My watchful and gracious providence. My heart — My true and tender affection. Shall be there perpetually — Shall be toward this place and people, upon condition of your obedience, as it here follows. Apply this to persons, to God’s living temples: those whom he hallows or sanctifies; whom he sets apart for himself, in consequence of their repentance and faith in Jesus, have his eye upon and his heart toward them; they have his love and his care, and this perpetually.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv2, 3, 4, 6, 8 This appearance is fixed by 1Ki 9:1 to Solomon’s…
This appearance is fixed by 1Ki 9:1 to Solomon’s twenty-fourth year, the year in which he completed his palace 1Ki 6:37-38; 1Ki 7:1. The fact seems to be that, though the temple was finished in Solomon’s eleventh year, the dedication did not take place until his twenty-fourth year. The order of the narrative in Kings agrees with this view, since it interposes the account of the building of the palace 1Ki 7:1-12, and of the making of the furniture 1 Kings 7:13-51, between the completion of the building of the temple 1Ki 6:38 and the ceremony of the Dedication 1 Kings 8.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv2, 4, 6, 7, 8 Gabaon; that is, "during the night," 2 Paralipomenon vii.…
Gabaon; that is, "during the night," 2 Paralipomenon vii. 12. God had spoken to Solomon, by a prophet, while he was building the temple; (chap. vi. 11.; Haydock) unless that passage relate to the same time as that which is here recorded more in detail, and took place in the night, after Solomon had poured forth his most solemn prayer. (Calmet) --- Others think that God deferred answering his petition for thirteen years, till Solomon was on the point of falling off from the observance of piety, that so he might be restrained more effectually. (Salien, the year before Christ 1011.) --- Fire from heaven had sufficiently signified that his former request had been granted. (Menochius) --- The context shews that the admonition was not sent till the palace was finished, (ver. 1, and 10.) in the 23rd year of Solomon. (Salien)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv2, 8 That--rather, "For."
That--rather, "For."
the Lord appeared--This appearance was, like the former one at Gibeon, most probably made in a supernatural vision, and on the night immediately following the dedication of the temple (Ch2 7:12). The strain of it corresponds to this view, for it consists of direct answers to his solemn inaugural prayer (Kg1 9:3 is in answer to Kg1 8:29; Kg1 9:4-5 is in answer to Kg1 8:25-26; Kg1 9:6-9 to Kg1 8:33-46; see also Deu 29:22-24).
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2. As he had appeared unto him at Gibeon — Namely, in a dream by night, (1Ki_3:5; 2Ch_7:12,) reminding him of the covenant with David, and conditioning his future happiness on his obedience. These two appearances to Solomon marked two memorable turning points in his career. The one given him in the simplicity of his youth (1Ki_3:7) lifted him into an element of wisdom and favour with both God and man; the other, given in the blaze of his worldly glory, was, alas! soon followed by shameful idolatries. Like Saul, when he was little in his own eyes the Lord made him great, (1Sa_15:17;) but when exalted among men, he lightly observed the Divine counsels.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 2. the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time]…
2. the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time] In 2 Chron. we are told that this was ‘by night,’ therefore in a vision. Josephus says ‘a vision appearing to the king in his sleep shewed him that God had hearkened to his prayer.’
at Gibeon] Cf. on 1Ki_3:5 above.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv3, 5, 7, 8, 9 (3) To put my name there for ever.—The meaning…
(3) To put my name there for ever.—The meaning of the words “for ever” is determined by the prayer which they answer. They simply mark the Temple as the “settled habitation to abide in for ever” (see 1Ki_8:13), in contradistinction from the movable tabernacle. Whether they were to have a larger significance is expressly declared to depend on the faithfulness of Israel (see 1Ki_9:7-8).
Mine eyes and mine heart.—See 8:29.
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(3-9) And the Lord said unto him.—This vision of the Lord presents a remarkable contrast with that recorded in 1Ki_6:11-13, while the Temple was in building. Then all was promise and encouragement; now, not only is warning mingled with promise, but, as in Solomon’s own prayer, the sadder alternative seems in prophetic anticipation to overpower the brighter. In this there is (as has been often remarked) a striking exemplification of the austere and lofty candour of the inspired narrative, sternly contradicting that natural hopefulness in the hour of unexampled prosperity, which would have shrunk from even entertaining the idea that the blessing of God on the Temple should be frustrated, and the glory of Israel should pass away.
It is notable that, in its reference to the two parts of the promise to David, there is a subtle and instructive distinction. As for the Temple, now just built in fulfilment of that promise, it is declared without reserve that, in case of unfaithfulness in Israel, it shall be utterly destroyed, and become an astonishment and a proverb of reproach before the world. But in respect of the promise of the perpetuity of David’s kingdom—the true Messianic prediction, which struck the key-note of all future prophecies—it is only said that Israel shall be “cut off from the land,” and so “become a proverb and a byword” in captivity. Nothing is said to contradict the original declaration, that, even in case of sin, the mercy of God would chastise and not forsake the house of David (2Sa_7:13-14; Psa_89:30-37). So again and again in prophecy captivity is denounced as a penalty of Israel’s sin; but the hope of restoration is always held out, and thus the belief in God’s unchanging promise remains unshaken. The true idea is strikingly illustrated by the prophet Amos (1Ki_9:9-11): “I will sift the house of Israel, among all nations . . . yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth . . . I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv2–9 That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time,…
That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, (see on 1Ki_6:11, and 1Ki_11:9) Solomon had received a message during the building of the temple as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon i.e., in a dream. (1Ki_3:5)
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On vv2, 4, 6 The Lord said unto him, I have heard thy…
1Ki_9:2-9
The Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer.
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Essential points in prayer
It was an exceedingly encouraging thing to Solomon that the Lord should appear to him before the beginning of his great work of building the temple. See in the third chapter of this First Book of the Kings, at the fifth verse, In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. I cannot forget when the Lord appeared unto me in Gibeon at the first. Truly there are things about the lives of Christian men that would not have been possible if God had not appeared to them at the beginning. If he had not strengthened and tutored them, and given them wisdom beyond what they possess in themselves; if he had not inspirited them. It is a priceless blessing to begin with God, and not to lay a stone of the temple of our life-work till the Lord has appeared unto us. I do not know, however, but that it is an equal, perhaps a superior, blessing for the Lord to appear to us after a certain work is done; even as in this case: The Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared unto him at Gibeon. We want renewed appearances, fresh manifestations, new visitations from on high; and I commend to those of you who are getting on in life, that while you thank God for the past, and look back with joy to His visits to you in your early days, you now seek and ask for a second visitation of the Most High. All days in a palace are not days of banqueting, and all days with God are not so clear and glorious as certain special Sabbaths of the soul in which the Lord unveils His glory. Happy are we if we have once beheld His face; but happier still if He again comes to us in fulness of favour. I think that we should be seeking those second appearances: we should be crying to God most pleadingly that He would speak to us a second time.
I. Our proper place in prayer. The Lord said, I have heard thy prayer, and thy supplication, that thou hast made before Me. There is the place to pray--before Me: that is to say, before the Lord. But we should take care that the place is hallowed by our prayer being deliberately and reverently presented before God.
1. This place is not always found. The Pharisee went up to the temple to pray, and yet, evidently, he did not pray before God; so that even in the most holy courts he did not find the place desired.
2. This blessed place before God can be found in public prayer. Solomons prayer before God was offered in the midst of a great multitude.
3. But prayer before God can just as well be offered in private.
4. The prayer is to be directed to God.
5. We should endeavour in prayer to realise the presence of God.
II. Our great desideratum in prayer. It is that which God said that He had given to Solomon. I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication.
1. The first thing the soul desires in prayer is audience with God. If the Lord do not hear us, we have gained nothing. And what an honour it is to have audience with God!
2. But we Want more than that: we want that He should accept. It were a painful thing to be permitted to speak to a great friend, and then for him to stand austere and stern, and say, I have heard what you have to say. Go your way. We ask not this of God.
3. Still, there is a third thing which we want, which God gave to Solomon, and that was an answer.
III. Our assurance of answer to prayer. Can we have an assurance that God has heard and answered prayer? Solomon had it. The Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before Me. Does the Lord ever say that to us? I think so. Let us consider how He does so.
1. I think that He says it to us very often in our usual faith.
2. But sometimes you require strong confidence. You have to solicit some extraordinary blessing. You get to a place like that to which Jacob came, when common prayer was not sufficient.
3. Sometimes this comes in the form of a comfortable persuasion.
4. The Lord also gives to His people a manifest preparation for the blessing. He prepares them to receive it. Their expectation is raised, so that they begin to look out for the blessing, and make room for it; and when it is so, you may be sure that it is coming.
5. Actual observation also breeds in us a solid confidence that our suit is succeeding. (C. H. Spurgeon.)
Prayer penetrates
Which are the sounds that penetrate furthest? We on terra firma are scarcely in a position to judge. However, a number of scientists have been making a series of experiments to test the relative penetrating quality of sounds, The Government lent them a military balloon, which ascended from the artillery camp at Woolwich, and passed over London. A sharp ear was kept for the sounds of the vast city that penetrated upward. Trains were heard in practically continuous rumble, punctuated by their shrill whistles. Sirens from the river and various factories rose sharp and clear. Most noticeable were the barkings of high-voiced dogs, which could be distinctly heard even at a mile high. The highly-instructive fact was noted, however, that, though the city was crossed just at neon, when from the streets the striking of clocks and bells is always such a noticeable feature, yet the most careful listener aloft could detect no such sounds. These observations go to prove how inferior are the carrying powers of bells as heard from aloft, and to emphasise the fact that noises of an unmusical, discordant nature have much better chance of making themselves heard at a distance than have more harmonious sounds. But the reverse is the case in the spiritual sphere. It is the discords of earth that have no carrying power, and that last but for a day. It is the sweet and harmonious utterance, the secret prayer, the quiet deed, that reaches unto the heavens. (Signal.)
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The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain On v3 1Ki_9:3. Sept. inserts, after “Supplication that thou hast made…
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1Ki_9:3. Sept. inserts, after “Supplication that thou hast made before me,” “I have done to thee according to all thy prayer.”
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1Ki_9:6. If ye shall at all turn.—A. V. implies only the slightest dereliction, “at all turn;” whereas שוֹב תְּשֻׁבוֹן is an intensive Hebraism, implying entirety, absolute apostasy. Which I have set before you: or, Moses set before you; so Sept. Notice also that the threatening (1Ki_9:7) is a quotation from Moses (Deu_28:37).
1Ki_9:8. This house is high—Omit italicised words at and which; is high=future tense, shall be high עֶלְיוֹן not exalted in renown (as Von Meyer, De Wette, Bähr), but shall stand high, a conspicuous example, a pre-eminent illustration of destruction. Others (the Peshito and Dr. Böttcher), “this house shall be a heap.” Sept.=ὁ οἶκος οὗτος ἔσται ὁ υψηλός. Vulg., et domus hæc crit in exemplum.
HOMILETICS OF 1Ki_9:3-9
RELIGION THE GLORY OF A NATION
I. That the religion of a nation does not consist in anything external.
1. Not in the grandeur of its temples. Architecture and artistic decoration are not essential to true piety. The most exquisite creations of the trowel and mallet can never rival the glorious edifice which has been already reared by the master hand of Deity. Nature is one vast cathedral, with its roof fretted with clouds and gemmed with stars; its aisles are the long-extended valleys; its pillars the lofty, massive hills; its altar the spot where the worshipper reverently bends his knee; and its music the manifold voices that rise from bird, or forest, or sea. Some of the costliest temples built by the art and adorned by the genius of man are consecrated to the worship of other than the only true God.
2. Not in the elaborateness of its ritual. The rites and ceremonies of the Israelitish religion in the days of Solomon were minute and exacting. Their worship was a rich, imposing pageant, calculated to impress both the worshipper and the spectator; and their history shows with what scrupulosity they observed the forms of their ritual when the spirit which gave those forms life and meaning was altogether quenched. It is the tendency of man to rest in the outward; and the devoutest worshipper has often to complain—
But I of means have made my boast,
Of means an idol made;
The spirit in the letter lost,
The substance in the shade.
3. Religion consists in the sincere worship of an ever-present God. The true glory of Moriah’s Temple was the hallowing presence of Jehovah. “I have hallowed this house which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually” (1Ki_9:3). When we fail to recognize the true God, when we forget His eye is upon us, when we are no longer conscious of His personal and all-compassionate love, religion ceases to be a power, ceases to be a reality. We may take our place in the temple, we may engage mechanically in its services, but there is no longer any true, acceptable worship (Mat_15:8-9).
II. That the religion of a nation depends for its permanence on obedience to God (1Ki_9:4-5).
1. Obedience is regulated by clearly defined injunctions. “To do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments.” Obedience must be intelligent, be governed by a studious appreciation of the Divine commands. We are surrounded by law. We cannot properly fulfil the great purpose of life without some acquaintance with the laws and forces in operation around us. The mariner needs it in order to pilot his vessel aright, the scientist to guide him in research, the physician to ameliorate human suffering. There should not be less study given to the laws of God for the government of our moral actions than is given to the laws of nature.
2. Obedience must be genuine and complete. “In integrity of heart and in uprightness.” We must be sincere. When we remember with what energy and publicity we have sometimes served sin, we should be animated with the more courage and earnestness in serving God. “He doeth not God’s will but his own, who doeth no more than himself will. Everything must be done as well as anything, else we do nothing.”
3. Obedience is illustrated by noble examples. “If thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked.” God expects no impossibility. What one man has done, another may do. David had great imperfections; but he had also great virtues. The seed of the godly cannot expect to enjoy the entail of the blessing unless they tread in the steps of those who have gone before, and keep up the piety of their ancestors. Solomon’s subsequent fall lends to these repeated warnings a special interest.
4. Obedience ensures perpetuity of blessing. “Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever” (1Ki_9:5). Obedience and blessing run together. If we are faithful to our part of the covenant, God will never fail on His part. All the promises of God are conditional; and failure in fulfilment of the promise is no proof of changeableness in God, but of infidelity in man. While the condition is observed, the promise is inviolably kept.
III. That the decay of the religion of a nation is inevitably followed by national ruin (1Ki_9:6-9).
1. The ruin of its national greatness. “Then will I cut off Israel out of the land I have given them.” In the very land where the Jews were most highly exalted did they witness the most abject degradation. When the people forsook God, and turned to idols, the Temple of Solomon—the world-wide evidence of national prosperity and blessing—was destroyed, Israel ceased to be an independent kingdom, and the people were banished; and when, after the second temple was built, they rejected David’s greater Son—their promised, true, and eternal king in whom all nations of the earth were to be blessed—this temple was destroyed never to be rebuilt, and the people were scattered through the whole world, ceasing for ever to be an independent kingdom and nation. Irreligion will ruin a nation more completely than an invading army could do. The external evidences of national greatness are the last to go: the first fatal weakness begins within, and may progress for a time silently and unnoticed.
2. The ruin of its religious prestige. “And this house which I have hallowed for my name will I cast out of my sight.” The temple was the symbol and external evidence of the intense religiousness of the people. Never was there before a nation so favoured with religious privileges: it was its solemn mission to preserve and promulgate the idea of the Only True God, which idea had become lost amid the mists of heathenism. When Israel lost its religion it lost everything—temple, character, influence. The same is true of every nation that abandons God.
3. The ruin is held up as a terrible warning to all ages. “And Israel shall be a proverb and a bye-word among all people; and this house which is high (Heb. shall be high), every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss” (1Ki_9:7-8). Not a scornful hiss, but a hissing of terror (Jer_19:8; Jer_49:17). The temple and the nation shall be as conspicuous in their desolation as in their glory. No people in the world ever became such a proverb—everywhere despised, reviled, and persecuted. By its story it illustrates to all nations the unchanging truth uttered by the prophet Azariah to King Asa, “If ye forsake Him, He will forsake you” (2Ch_15:2).
LESSONS:—
1. Religion is at once the strength and the adornment of a people.
2. The chief concern of the monarch should be for the religious welfare of his people.
3. The nation that abandons God will be abandoned by Him.
GERM NOTES ON THE VERSES
1Ki_9:3. “To put my name there for ever.” God’s gifts are without repentance. When He puts His name in the temple, He does it, in intention, for ever. He will not arbitrarily withdraw it after so many years or so many centuries. Once placed there, it will remain there for ever, so far as God is concerned. But the people may, by unfaithfulness, drive it away.
—“Mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.” Solomon’s prayer had been that God’s eyes might be directed towards the temple continually. The answer given is—Not mine eyes only, but mine eyes and mine heart. To every house where the name of God is truly honoured applies the Divine saying, “Mine eyes and my heart shall dwell there for ever.”
—The Divine solicitude for the Church. 1. He investigates its moral condition.
2. He sympathises with its struggles.
3. He rejoices in its triumphs.
4. His care is unremitting.
1Ki_9:4. “If Thou wilt walk before me” (compared with 1Ki_9:6). The power of individualism.
1. The national is vastly influenced by the personal.
2. A monarch may foster or blast the religious interests of his people.
3. The greater the authority placed in the hands of one man, the greater is his responsibility for its use or abuse.
4. How momentous are the opportunities presented within the compass of a single life!
1Ki_9:6-9. Because men endure uninterrupted prosperity with much greater difficulty than they do crosses and afflictions, therefore, when they are at the summit of their wishes and their hearts’ desire, it is most necessary that the grave importance of God and of eternity should be held up before them, so that they may not fall into security, and forget to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling (Mat_16:26; 1Co_10:12). The more abundantly God displays His mercy and love towards an individual or towards a nation, so much the more fearful will be the righteous sentence, if the riches of His mercy are despised. In happy and prosperous days forget not that the Lord tells us, “Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.” How many men, how many families, how many nations, blessed in every respect, have come to a fearful and shameful end! Askest thou—“Wherefore is this? The only reply is—Because they have forsaken the Lord their God; for what a man sows that shall he also reap. Let him who will not recognize a Divine justice, turn to the twice-destroyed temple of Jerusalem, and to the world-scattered people who have become a byeword amongst all nations.—Lange.
1Ki_9:7. If our growth in grace does not correspond with our privileges, our boast of the temple and the best form of worship will but delude and destroy us.
1Ki_9:9. Apostasy is hateful even among the heathen. Solyman, the Grand Signior, rejected the revolt of his Christian subjects to Turkism, and doubled their taxations.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv3, 4, 6, 8 your prayer and your request
your prayer and your request
The words "prayer" and "request" mean basically the same thing and emphasize that Yahweh recognized that Solomon's request was sincere. See how you translated similar words in 1 Kings 8:28. AT: "your request" (See: Doublet)
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to put my name there forever
The name is a metonym for the person. AT: "to dwell there and to claim possession of it forever" (See: Metonymy)
My eyes and my heart will be there
The eyes and heart are synecdoche for the whole person. AT: "I will protect and care for it" (See: Synecdoche)
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Yahweh
pray
set apart
name
eternity
heart
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv2–3 9:2 The Lord had previously appeared to Solomon when…
9:2 The Lord had previously appeared to Solomon when granting his desire for wisdom (3:3-15). The Chronicler provides additional details of God’s blessings or judgment, depending on the faithfulness of Solomon and Israel (2 Chr 7:11-22).
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