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History of Solomon's Kingship - 2 Chronicles 1-9\nThe kingship of Solomon centres in the building of the temple of the Lord, and the account of that begins in 2 Chron 2 with a statement of the preparations which Solomon made for the accomplishment of this great work, so much pressed upon him by his father, and concludes in 2 Chron 7 with the answer which the Lord gave to his consecrating prayer in a vision. In 2 Chron 1, before the history of the temple building, we have an account of the sacrifice at Gibeon by which Solomon inaugurated his reign (Ch2 1:1-13), with some short notices of his power and riches (Ch2 1:14-17); and in 2 Chron 8 and 9, after the temple building, we have summary statements about the palaces and cities which he built (Ch2 8:1-11), the arrangement of the regular religious service (Ch2 8:12-16), the voyage to Ophir (Ch2 8:17, Ch2 8:18), the visit of the queen of Sheba (Ch2 9:1-12), his riches and his royal magnificence and glory (2 Chron 9:13-28), with the concluding notices of the duration of his reign, and of his death (Ch2 9:29, Ch2 9:30). If we compare with this the description of Solomon's reign in 1 Kings 1-11, we find that in the Chronicle not only are the narratives of his accession to the throne in consequence of Adonijah's attempted usurpation, and his confirming his kingdom by punishing the revolter (1 Kings 1 and 2), of his marriage to the Egyptian princess (Kg1 3:1, Kg1 3:2), his wise judgment (Kg1 3:16-28), his public officers, his official men, his royal magnificence and glory (1 Kings 4:1-5:14), omitted, but also the accounts of the building of his palace (Kg1 7:1-12), of his idolatry, and of the adversaries who rose against him (1 Kings 11:1-40). On the other hand, the description of the building and consecration of the temple is supplemented by various important details which are omitted from the first book of Kings. Hence it is clear that the author of the Chronicle purposed only to portray more exactly the building of the house of God, and has only shortly touched upon all the other undertakings of this wise and fortunate king. \n","order":14,"numberOfChapters":36,"sha256":"42761404770924f7594f8f058876e63770e6360d12fee954306e1f7d5ecdd709","firstChapterNumber":1,"firstChapterApiLink":"/api/c/keil-delitzsch/2CH/1.json","firstChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"keil-delitzsch","book":"2CH","chapter":1},"lastChapterNumber":36,"lastChapterApiLink":"/api/c/keil-delitzsch/2CH/36.json","lastChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"keil-delitzsch","book":"2CH","chapter":36},"totalNumberOfVerses":120},"chapter":{"number":32,"content":[],"introduction":"The reign of Manasseh; cf. 2 Kings 21:1-18. - The characteristics of this king's reign, and of the idolatry which he again introduced, and increased in a measure surpassing all his predecessors (Ch2 33:1-9), agrees almost verbally with Kg2 21:1-9. Here and there an expression is rhetorically generalized and intensified, e.g., by the plurals לבּעלים and אשׁרות (Ch2 33:3) instead of the sing. לבּעל and אשׁרה (Kings), and בּנין (Ch2 33:6) instead of בּנו (see on Ch2 28:3); by the addition of וכשּׁף to ונחשׁ עונן, and of the name the Vale of Hinnom, Ch2 33:6 (see on Jos 15:18, גּי for גּיא); by heaping up words for the law and its commandments (Ch2 33:8); and other small deviations, of which הסּמל פּסל (Ch2 33:7) instead of האשׁרה פּסל (Kings) is the most important. The word סמל, sculpture or statue, is derived from Deu 4:16, but has perhaps been taken by the author of the Chronicle from Eze 8:3, where סמל probably denotes the statue of Asherah. The form עילום for עולם (Ch2 33:7) is not elsewhere met with. \n"},"thisChapterLink":"/api/c/keil-delitzsch/2CH/32.json","thisChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"keil-delitzsch","book":"2CH","chapter":32},"nextChapterApiLink":"/api/c/keil-delitzsch/2CH/33.json","nextChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"keil-delitzsch","book":"2CH","chapter":33},"previousChapterApiLink":"/api/c/keil-delitzsch/2CH/31.json","previousChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"keil-delitzsch","book":"2CH","chapter":31},"numberOfVerses":0}