66<\/strong>. On the eighth day<\/em> ] i.e. Of the feast of Tabernacles, which had been preceded on this occasion by the feast of Dedication. Therefore this was the fifteenth day of the whole ceremony. It is defined in 2Ch 7:10<\/span> as ‘the three and twentieth day of the seventh month.’<\/p>\n and they blessed the king<\/em> ] Josephus explains thus: ‘they went away thanking the king for his forethought about them, and for the conduct which he had exhibited towards them, and praying God to give them Solomon as their king for a long time to come.’<\/p>\n and went unto their tents<\/em> ] The expression is a survival from those times when the home was a tent. Cf. 2Sa 18:17<\/span>; 2Sa 19:8<\/span>.<\/p>\n Their tents – <\/B>i. e. their homes. The word tents was used for houses from an old habit of speech, which had come down from the time when the Israelites were a nomadic nation.<\/P><\/p>\n 1Ki 8:66<\/span><\/p>\n On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The earthly fellowship of the good<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Increased attachment to those who are over them in the Lord. And they blessed the king (1Pe 2:13-17<\/span>).<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Increased sympathy with, and delight in the work of God. Joyful and glad of heart, for, etc. No petty jealousies, no sectarian strifes, no proud boasting. The tribes are lost in Israel. Solomon and David are one. The Lord is all in all. What a lesson to Christians.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>Increased aptitude for the service of God in their several houses. They seem to have had a deep sense of the transitoriness of earthly things. Went unto their tents. The word stands for houses. It had come down from the time of the patriarchs. Would suggest the thought, we are pilgrims. What are our houses, and the fabric of our families, the organisations of our churches, but tents? (Heb 12:27-28<\/span>).<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>More perfect. No distractions, no weariness, no incongruities, nothing to mar or interrupt the universal harmony.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>More enduring. All things earthly are <\/strong>transitory. The sweetest song must come to an end, the pleasantest book must be laid aside, the most endearing fellowship, etc. Not so hereafter. In heaven there is no sending away. (William Forsyth.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The afterwards of Divine worship<\/strong><\/p>\n After the worship of the Lords Day, and especially after the Lords Supper, we should continue in devotion, and make the whole day a post-communion. As civet boxes retain their scent when the civet is taken out, so, when the act of visible communion is over, our thoughts and discourse and actions should still savour of the solemnity. Certainly it is an argument of much weakness to be all for flashes and sudden starts. This retaining of their perfume by boxes and drawers in which sweet scents have been placed is a fragrant figure of the abiding nature of grace in a heart wherein it has once been stored up. II ordinances yield the influence designed by them, their savour will remain in our lives. (C. H. Spurgeon.<\/em>)<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Verse 66<\/span>. They blessed the king<\/B><\/I>] Wished him all spiritual and temporal happiness. They were contented with their king, at peace among themselves, and happy in their God; so that they returned to their houses magnifying their God for all his bounty to them, their country, and their king. How happy must these people have been, and how prosperous, had their king continued to walk uprightly before God! But alas! the king fell, and the nation followed his example.<\/P><\/p>\n Solomon having joined with the people in the solemn assembly, which was kept on the eighth day, in the close of that day and service he took his solemn farewell, and dismissed them with his blessing; and the next morning when the heads and elders who came to Solomon upon this special summons, above, 1Ki 8:3<\/span>, and with them divers of the people came to take their leave of the king, he sent them away. And so this place agrees very well with 2Ch 7:9<\/span>,10<\/span>. <\/P> They blessed the king, <\/B>i.e. they prayed to God to bless him, according to their duty and custom. Or, <\/P> they praised him, <\/B>for his great care and pains in building of the temple, and setting up Gods worship among them. <\/P> The goodness that the Lord had done for David, <\/B>in giving him a sure house, and a wise and religious son, by whom he had now fulfilled the promise made to David about the building of the temple. <\/P> <\/p>\n On the eighth day he sent the people away<\/strong>,…. That is, of the feast of tabernacles, the eighth from the first of that, which was a solemn day, and fell on the twenty second of the month; at the close of which the dismission was made, or they had leave to go, but they did not until the twenty third, according to 2Ch 7:10<\/span><\/p>\n and they blessed the king<\/strong>; returned him thanks for his care, and charge, and pains, in building the temple; for prayers for them, and the feast he had now made, and wished all health and happiness to him:<\/p>\n and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart<\/strong>; or to their cities, as the Targum, to their several habitations; being greatly delighted with what they had seen and heard, and partook of especially:<\/p>\n for all the goodness the Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people<\/strong>; in 2Ch 7:10<\/span>, it is added, “unto Solomon”; for David, in giving him such a son and successor, who according to promise had built the house of the Lord; and for Solomon, in raising him up to such dignity, and enabling him to build such a temple for the worship of God and his glory; and for the people of Israel, in giving them such a king to rule over them, under whom they enjoyed so much peace and prosperity, and the full and free exercise of the true religion, with such accommodations, and in such a splendid manner as now.<\/p>\n 66<\/strong>. <\/strong> On the eighth day <\/strong> The day following the last seven days’ feast, which was the twenty-third day of the seventh month. 2Ch 7:10<\/span>. <\/p>\n Went unto their tents <\/strong> That is, went home. Compare note on 1Sa 17:54<\/span>.<\/p>\n 1Ki 8:66<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>On the eighth day he sent the people away<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> In 2Ch 7:10<\/span> it is on the twenty-third day. <\/em>Houbigant thinks, that what seems to have been omitted in this place, should be supplied from the parallel place in the Chronicles. <\/p>\n Note; <\/em>(1.) When we return from God’s ordinances, it becomes us to rejoice in the God of our salvation. (2.) A good king is the joy of his subjects. (3.) When we shall return to our eternal home, then shall our joy never end; and Jesus, our king, be the subject of our everlasting praises. <\/p>\n (66) On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n See, Reader! after all the great events of this chapter, the separation and departure. Oh! that your heart, and my heart, from this view of the subject, may be led upward, to contemplate that joyful meeting, and to long for it, where we shall go out no more. And in the mean time, as the Israelites are said to have blessed the king, and rejoiced for all the goodness the Lord had shown to David, and to Israel; oh! let us, at the dose of all ordinances, and all means of grace, bless God our Father for all the goodness, grace, and mercy he hath shown us in David’s Lord and King, our adored Redeemer; in having established his throne, an everlasting throne, and a kingdom which shall be forever. And oh! for that mercy to eternal life, which the apostle looked for, and which the people of God shall assuredly enjoy; that, receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, we may have grace to serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. Heb 12:28<\/span> .<\/p>\n<\/p>\n REFLECTIONS<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Solomon! I would honour thy memory with great honour, for the view which the blessed Spirit hath been pleased to give me of thy ministry, as set forth in the dedication of the temple. Surely, never didst thou appear so truly great, as in this instance, where thou art represented so truly humble. Thou hast shown herein, a dignity well meriting imitation: and manifested, that the most supreme station any mortal can be advanced to in life, is to minister as the servant of Jehovah.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n But while I behold Solomon thus honoured of his Lord, I would pass over all thoughts of the servant, to contemplate the Master. Thou, dearest Jesus! art formed to eclipse all creature excellence. Even Solomon’s temple was but a faded glory, had it not been for the representation it made of thee, and of thy redemption. Oh! precious structure, the temple of thy body! Oh! sacred building, not made with hands. United to the God-head, the foundation is eternally sure, and all the blessings contained in it, endless blessings to our souls. Here, dearest Lord! in thee I see security from all evils whensoever, or wheresoever, any poor sinner who feels and knows the plague of his own heart, directs the eye of faith to thee for salvation. Though he trespass against his neighbor; though he trespass against his own soul; though he transgress against the Lord his God; and though he be carried away captive by his spiritual enemies, far from the land of his fathers; yet, if from thence, his whole heart and his whole soul be directed to Jesus, Jesus will hear from heaven, the habitation of his holiness and his glory; for he hath said; Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else, beside me there is no Saviour! Help me then, dearest Jesus, to have mine eyes and my whole heart eternally fixed on thee. It is thy gracious office to know all my circumstances, to direct all my ways, to observe, to pity, to regard, and still to love me in every state and every case. Oh! Lord God! let not only my eyes, but the eyes of all poor sinners, whose redemption thou hast purchased with thy blood, be gazing upon thee with holy longing, fervent waiting and continual desire: and even under the most discouraging circumstances, even if, like Jonah, I am tempted at any time to exclaim, I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes; yet, like him, to have faith still to say, I will look again towards thine holy temple. Oh! let that precious experience in thy blessed word be mine; in which it is said; they looked unto him and were lightened; and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.<\/p>\n 1Ki 8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.<\/p>\n Ver. 66. He sent the people away.<\/strong> ] Blessing their good king, and congratulating their own great happiness.<\/p>\n for David: i.e. in the person of Solomon his son. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part). Compare 1Ki 10:9 and 2Ch 7:10. <\/p>\n the eighth day: In the parallel passage of Chronicles this is termed “the three and twentieth day of the seventh month;” that is, the ninth day of the dedication; which Jarchi reconciles by supposing that Solomon gave them leave to return on the eighth day, and many of them did return; and that he dismissed the remainder on the ninth, or twenty-third of the seventh month. See note on 1Ki 8:1. 2Ch 7:10, 2Ch 31:1 <\/p>\n blessed: or, thanked, 1Ki 8:1, 1Ki 8:47 <\/p>\n joyful: Deu 12:7, Deu 12:12, Deu 12:18, Deu 16:11, 2Ch 29:36, 2Ch 30:26, 2Ch 30:27, Neh 8:10, Psa 95:1, Psa 95:2, Psa 100:1, Psa 100:2, Psa 106:4, Psa 106:5, Psa 122:6, Psa 122:9, Isa 61:9, Isa 61:10, Isa 66:13, Isa 66:14, Jer 31:12-14, Zep 3:14, Zec 9:9, Zec 9:17, Act 2:46, Gal 5:22, Phi 4:4 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Exo 31:6 – that they 2Sa 6:19 – So all the 1Ch 16:43 – all the people Neh 9:25 – delighted Psa 118:24 – we will Ecc 9:7 – eat Isa 63:7 – the great goodness Joh 7:37 – the last<\/p>\n On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people. 66. 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I. <\/strong>The fellowship of the good on earth is imperfect. Secular concerns, physical infirmities, incongruities of mind, temper, education, worldly condition, and other circumstances, expose it to interruption. On the eighth day he sent the people away. Follow them in imagination. Some go south to Bethlehem, and Hebron, and Libah; some to the east, to the pleasant vales of the Jordan, etc.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>The fellowship of the good on earth tends to the promotion of all good feeling.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>The fellowship of the good on earth prophesies of a more perfect and enduring fellowship hereafter.<\/p>\n
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Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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