2 Chronicles 20

2 Chronicles 20:3

Neither &c. - Those that make this world their end, come short of the other, and frequently of this too. But those who make the other world their end, shall not only obtain that, but shalt have as much as is convenient of this world in their way.

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His kingdom - A royal palace for himself and his successors.

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Great - For though the temple strictly so called, was but small, yet the buildings belonging to it, were large and numerous.

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Contain - When I speak of building an house for our great God, let none think I mean to comprehend God within it, for he is infinite. To sacrifice - To worship him there where he is graciously present.

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Made heaven and earth - It seems Huram was not only a friend to the Jewish nation, but a proselyte to their religion, and that he worshipped Jehovah, the God of Israel, (who was now known by that name to the neighbour - nations) as the God that made heaven and earth, and the fountain of power as well as of being.

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Of Dan, &c. - A good omen of uniting Jew and Gentile in the gospel - temple.

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The strangers - For David had not only numbered his own people, but afterward the strangers, that Solomon might have a true account of them, and employ them about his buildings. Yet Solomon numbered them again, because death might have made a considerable alteration among them since David’s numbering.

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Hewers in the mountains - He would not employ the free - born Israelites in this drudgery, but the strangers that were proselytes, who having no lands, applied themselves to trades, and got their living by their industry or ingenuity.

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Moriah - It was the belief of the ancient Jews, that the temple was built on that very place, where Abraham offered up Issac.

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Instructed - By David, and by the Spirit of God. The measure - According to he measure which was first fixed.

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The height - This being a kind of turret to the building.

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Greater house - The holy place, which was thrice as large as the holy of holies.

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Nails - Each of the nails, screws, or pins, by which the golden plates were fastened to the walls, weighed, or rather was worth, fifty shekels, workmanship and all. Upper chambers - Rather, the roof.