{"id":11374,"date":"2022-09-24T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-816\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:00:44","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-816\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 8:16"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. [So] the house of the LORD was perfected. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 16<\/strong>. <em> Now all the work of Solomon was prepared<\/em> ] Reader, <strong> So all the work of Solomon was established<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em> unto the day  was perfected<\/em> ] LXX offers a much shorter and smoother text, <em> from the day on which it was founded until Solomon perfected the house of the Lord<\/em>. This reading is probably right.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>All the work of Solomon was prepared; <\/B>all the materials were procured, and in all points squared, and fitted, and completed beforehand. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished<\/strong>,&#8230;. The materials were prepared, and the money for the expenses; and even the very stones and timber were made fit for the building, so that there was nothing to retard the completion of it:<\/p>\n<p><strong>so the house of God was perfected<\/strong>; in the space of seven years, in all the parts, and according to the form and pattern of it, see <span class='bible'>1Ki 6:38<\/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.<\/strong><em>And,<\/em> here equivalent to <em>so.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prepared<\/strong> = <em>completed.<\/em> (<span class='bible'>2Ch. 29:35<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ch. 35:10<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ch. 35:16<\/span>; a late use of the word <em>nkn.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unto the day of the foundation . . . until it was finished.<\/strong>Solomons activity is apparently divided into two periods, viz., the preparations which he made before and up to the foundation of the Temple (<span class='bible'>2 Chronicles 2<\/span>), and secondly, the prosecution of the work to its completion (<span class='bible'>2Ch. 3:1<\/span> to <span class='bible'>2Ch. 5:1<\/span>). (The Heb. Is, unto <em>that<\/em> day of the foundation, i.e., that memorable day, see <span class='bible'>2Ch. 3:1-3<\/span>.) All the versions, however, understand <em>from<\/em> the day of the foundation unto the completion of the Temple, and perhaps <em>ad ha-ym<\/em> is, in the chroniclers Hebrew equivalent to <em>lmin ha-ym,<\/em> expressing the <em>terminus a quo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>So the house of the Lord was perfected.<\/strong>Omit <em>so,<\/em> and comp. <span class='bible'>1Ki. 9:25<\/span>, and he finished [same root as <em>perfected<\/em>] the house. The verse thus closes the entire account of the building and inauguration of the Temple.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 2Ch 8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. [So] the house of the LORD was perfected.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 16. <strong> So the house of God was perfected.<\/strong> ] See <span class='bible'>1Ki 9:25<\/span> .<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>unto. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read &#8220;from&#8221;. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>2Ch 8:16<\/p>\n<p>2Ch 8:16<\/p>\n<p>CONCLUSION OF WORK ON THE TEMPLE<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now all the works of Solomon were prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and until it was finished. So the house of Jehovah was completed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>E.M. Zerr:<\/p>\n<p>2Ch 8:16. Was prepared means the work was completed. The verse is a summing up of the work of Solomon, telling us that his great task was brought to completion. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>1Ki 5:18, 1Ki 6:7 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: 1Ki 9:25 &#8211; upon the altar that was before<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>8:16 Now all the {h} work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. [So] the house of the LORD was perfected.<\/p>\n<p>(h) Both for the matte and also for the workmanship.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. [So] the house of the LORD was perfected. 16. Now all the work of Solomon was prepared ] Reader, So all the work of Solomon was established. unto the day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-816\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 8:16&#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-11374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374","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=11374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}