Bible Commentary

For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: 51. from the midst of the furnace of iron ] The bondage of Egypt is so called, Deu 4:20. The idea is of the intense heat needed to melt iron in a … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 8:51”

And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them: 50. give them compassion ] So God stirred up the heart of Cyrus to permit Israel to return from … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 8:50”

Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, 49. and maintain their cause ] The words are the same as in 1Ki 8:45, but the idea is a little different. There the ‘cause’ was a righteous war undertaken at God’s direction; here the phrase implies that … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 8:49”

And [so] return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: With … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 8:48”

[Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; Bethink themselves – literally, as in the margin – i. e. reflect, consider … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 8:47”

If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; 46. If they sin against thee ] With the language of these verses concerning … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 8:46”

Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. Declare the justice of their cause, by giving them the victory. Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication,…. For success: and maintain their cause; do them justice, and … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 8:45”

If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and [toward] the house that I have built for thy name: 44. If thy people go out to battle ] The case here is of a war … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 8:44”

Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as [do] thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have built, is called by thy name. 43. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 8:43”

(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; 42. of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm ] A constant phrase in Deuteronomy to express God’s power, see Deu 3:24; Deu 4:34; Deu … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 8:42”