Posts Tagged ‘2 Chronicles’

The Reports I Heard…

It is interesting to note that the Queen of Sheba went from doubting Solomon’s famed wisdom to praising the Lord in one short visit.
For the Queen, it was apparently hard for to believe the extent to which Solomon had wisdom:
She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your achievements [...]

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Consulting the Elders

In order to deal with a difficult situation, King Rehoboam takes two actions:

He consulted the elders.
He consulted the young men, his peers.

From the elders (2 Chr 10:7):
They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.”
From the youth (2 Chr [...]

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Because Those Places are Holy

Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.” (2 Chr 8:11)
It is no secret that Solomon had [...]

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“His Love Endures Forever”

When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, “He is good; his love endures forever.” (2 Chr 7:3)
The priests took their positions, as did [...]

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So Many Sheep and Cattle

One of the things that I think is hard to imagine today is the extent to which animals were sacrificed in the Old Testament.
…and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted. [...]

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The Altar in Gibeon

Before the building of the temple, the components that became identified as being parts of a whole were not always together. At the opening of 2 Chronicles, just such a scenario exists (2 Chr 1:4–6):
Now David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because [...]

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