Bible in one year 7/1/2022 2Chronicle Chapter 4-7 Solomon prayer and Lord’s answer
By Rev.Katherine Liu
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Ministries : Biblical precepts & Gospel music; Pastoral ministry &
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2 Chronicle Chapter 4 Construction of the Temple
Solomon made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten
cubits high. He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten
cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to
measure around it. Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it-ten to a cubit.
The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.(vv.1-3).
He
made ten gold lampstands according to the specifications for them and placed
them in the temple, five on the South side and five on the north.(v.7). He made
ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on
the North. He also made a hundred gold sprinkling bowls.(v.8). He also made the
pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work he had
undertaken for King Solomon, in the temple of God: the two pillars; the two
bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two sets of network decorating
the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the four hundred
pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each
network, decorating the bowl shaped capitals on top of the pillars).(vv.11-13).
All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord
were of polished bronze.(v.16).
2Chronicle Chapter 5 Dedication of the Temple
Installing the Ark
5:1-14 When all the work Solomon had
done for the temple of the Lord was finished, he brought in the things his
father David had dedicated –the silver and gold and all the furnishings and he
placed them in the treasuries of God’s temple.(v.1). Then Solomon summoned to
Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of
the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Zion,
the City of David. And all the men of Israel came together to the king at the
time of the festival in the seventh month. (vv.2-3). Zion. A name for Jerusalem or, as here, the portion of it located
in the SE part (2Sam.5:6-7).Moriah, where the Temple was, is N. of this area.
The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place in the
inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the
wings of the cherubim. The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the
ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles.(vv.7-8)(1Kings8:7-8). The priests
then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had
consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. All the Levites who were
musicians -Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives-stood on the
east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and
lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. The trumpeters
and singers joined in unison, as with one voice, to give praise and thanks to
the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, they raised
their voices in praise to the Lord and sang:
“He is good; His love
endures forever”
Then the temple of the Lord was filled
with a cloud, and the priests could not perform their service because of the
cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God. (vv.13-14).
Chapter 6 Solomon speaks to the people and pray
to God 6:1-11
Then Solomon said, “ The Lord has
said that he would dwell in a dark cloud; I have built a magnificent temple for
you, palace for you to dwell forever.” While the whole assembly of Israel was
standing there, the king turned around and blessed them. and pray to God,
“ O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in
heaven or on earth-you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who
continue wholeheartedly in your way. You have kept your promise to your servant
David my father; with your month you have promised and with your hand you have
fulfilled it –as it is today. Now Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant
David my father the promises you made to him when you said, “ you shall never
fail to have a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your son
are careful in all they do to walk before me according to my law, as you have
done.” And now, O Lord, God of Israel, let your word that you promised your
servant David come true.”(vv.14-17).
But
will God really dwell on earth with men? The heavens even the highest heavens,
even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have
built! Yet give attention to your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy, O
Lord my God. Hear the cry and the praying in your presence. May your eyes be
open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would
put your Name there. May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.
Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray
toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear,
forgive.(vv.18-21).
Now, my God, may your eyes be open
and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. Now arise, O Lord
God, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. May your
priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, may your saints rejoice in your
goodness. O Lord God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember the great love
promised to David your servant.(6:40-42)
2Chronicles 7 God’s glory and the Lord
answered Solomon
As
for you, If you walk before me as David your father did, and do all I command,
and observe my decrees and laws, I will establish your royal throne, as I
covenanted with David your father when I said, “you shall never fail to have a
man to rule over Israel.” (vv.17-18).
But
if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go
off to serve other gods and worship them, then, I will uproot Israel from my
land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated
for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all
peoples.(vv.19-20).
And
though this temple is now so imposing, all peoples who pass by will be appalled
and say, “ Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?
People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord, the God of their
fathers, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods,
worshiping and serving them that is why he brought all this disaster on
them.’”(vv.21-22).
The Lord’s answer to Solomon states God’s requirements for blessing : humility,
prayer, devotion, repentance and do not turn away and forsake the decrees and commands,
and go off to serve other gods and worship them. Solomon’s final stage was strayed
from the Lord, and wasn’t devoted to the Lord wholeheartedly, because he had so many
foreign wives who worshiped other gods. Therefore, the Lord uproot Israel from
His land in his son’s generation after Solomon died.
Bibliography,
Ryrie, Charles C. The Ryrie study Bible (NIV).Chicago,
IL: The Moody Bible Institute, 1986
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