{"id":11310,"date":"2022-09-24T03:58:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-616\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T03:58:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:58:51","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-616\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 6:16"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 16<\/strong>. <em> yet so that<\/em> ] R.V. <strong> if only<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em> walk in my law<\/em> ] In <span class='bible'>1Ki 8:25<\/span>, <em> walk before me<\/em>. The Chronicler characteristically introduces a reference to the Law of the Lord (the <em> trah<\/em>). In Samuel and Kings neither David nor Solomon ever mentions this.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span class='bible'>[See comments on 2Ch 5:1]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(16) <strong>Now therefore.<\/strong><em>And now.<\/em> So in <span class='bible'>2Ch. 6:17<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep that which thou hast promised<\/strong><em>i.e., <\/em>Thy further promise. See the fulfilment of the former promise, as described in <span class='bible'>2Ch. 6:10<\/span>, <em>supr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>There shall not fail thee.<\/strong>See margin. Authorised Version follows LXX.,   <em>;<\/em> and Vulg., non deficiet ex te.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To<\/strong> <strong>sit.<\/strong>Heb., <em>sitting;<\/em> LXX., <em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yet so that.<\/strong><em>Only if;<\/em> assigning a single condition; <em>provided that<\/em>. . . . LXX.,   ; Vulg., <em>ita tamen si<\/em> custodierint.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take heed to.<\/strong>Heb., <em>keep<\/em> (<span class='bible'>2Ch. 6:14-16<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>In<\/strong> <strong>my law.<\/strong>The only variant from <span class='bible'>1Ki. 8:25<\/span>. The chronicler has avoided a seeming tautology, as elsewhere. Syriac, before me in the Law.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>to sit = sitting. <\/p>\n<p>yet so = if only. Same condition as 2Sa 7:14. Conditional to Solomon, but unconditional to David, as the Land was to Abraham (Genesis 15). Therefore the throne must, and will yet be, filled by David&#8217;s son and David&#8217;s Lord. <\/p>\n<p>as = according as. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>keep: Eze 36:37, Joh 15:14, Joh 15:15 <\/p>\n<p>saying: 2Ch 7:18, 2Sa 7:12-16, 1Ki 2:4, 1Ki 6:12, Psa 132:12 <\/p>\n<p>There shall not fail thee a man: Heb. There shall not a man be cut off <\/p>\n<p>to walk: Psa 26:3, Psa 119:1 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: 1Ki 8:25 &#8211; thy children 2Ki 10:31 &#8211; walk 2Ch 23:3 &#8211; as the Lord Neh 10:29 &#8211; to walk Psa 132:11 &#8211; Of the fruit<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-616\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 6:16&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}