The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Chronicles 3:1-14
2 Chronicles 3:1-14Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem.The surpassing beauty of the templeI. That God did not need this lavish expenditure of gold and gems and rich ornamentsII. Yet Divine condescension accepted this offering of human gratitude.III. The beauty and costliness of the temple served to impress the mind of surrounding nations with the feelings of the people of israel towards their great God.IV. The adornment of the temple a rebuke to mere utilitarian... read more
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 3:1-17
2 Chronicles 3:1 . Mount Moriah, or the land of vision; the place which the rabbins generally allow to be the same where Abraham offered up his son Isaac. 2 Chronicles 3:2 . Began to build. See the chronology at the end of Ruth, and 2 Kings 6:1. According to archbishop Usher the temple was finished in November, and exactly a thousand years before the birth of Christ. This differs eleven or twelve years from the chronology of our bibles, and of Royamont’s chronology. The temple was... read more