1 Reyes 9:1-9 NVI

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 9:1-9

God had given a real answer to Solomon's prayer, and tokens of his acceptance of it, immediately, by the fire from heaven which consumed the sacrifices (as we find 2 Chron. 7:1); but here we have a more express and distinct answer to it. Observe, I. In what way God gave him this answer. He appeared to him, as he had done at Gibeon, in the beginning of his reign, in a dream or vision, 1 Kgs. 9:2. The comparing of it with that intimates that it was the very night after he had finished the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:1

And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord ,.... Which was done in seven years, 1 Kings 6:38 . and the king's house ; his own palace, which was finished in thirteen years, 1 Kings 7:1 , and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do ; all his other buildings, the house for Pharaoh's daughter, the house of the forest of Lebanon, and may include his vineyards, gardens, orchards, and pools of water, made for his pleasure, Ecclesiastes... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:2

That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time ,.... Junius and Tremellius read this verse with the following, to the end of the ninth, in a parenthesis, and render this clause, "for the Lord had appeared", &c.; and Piscator translates it, "moreover the Lord appeared", &c.; as beginning a distinct narrative from the former; and indeed if the words are to be connected with the preceding, as in our version, this appearance must be thirteen years after the building of the temple,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:3

And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication that thou hast made before me ,.... With delight and pleasure, and had accepted it; meaning the prayer recorded in the preceding chapter: I have hallowed this house which thou hast built ; by the cloud of glory filling it, and by fire descending from heaven, and consuming the sacrifices offered in it, 2 Chronicles 7:1 . to put my name there for ever ; there to grant his presence, so long as his pure worship... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:4

And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness. .... Who, though guilty of many sins and failings in life, yet was sincere and upright in the worship of God, never apostatized from it, or fell into idolatry, which is what is chiefly respected: to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments ; observe all the laws of God, moral, ceremonial, and judicial. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:5

Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever ,.... In a succession in his posterity, until the coming of the Messiah: as I promised unto David thy father, saying, there shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel ; not fail one of his posterity to sit upon it; see 2 Samuel 7:12 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:6

But if you shall at all turn from following me, you or your children ,.... From my worship, as the Targum; either Solomon or his successors, or the people of Israel and their posterity; should they turn their backs on God and his worship, meaning not in a single instance, or in some small degree; but as in the original, "if in turning ye turn" F5 אם שוב תשבון "si avertendo aversi fueritis", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; , that is, utterly, and entirely, or wholly turn from him and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:7

Then will I cut off Israel out of the land I have given them ,.... Suffer them to be carried captive into other lands, as the ten tribes were into Assyria, and the two tribes to Babylon; which is called a plucking them up by the roots in 2 Chronicles 7:20 . and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight : as it was when burnt by Nebuchadnezzar: and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people ; both for their sins and for their miseries;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:8

And at this house which is high ,.... The house of the most High, as some render it, and in high esteem, fame, and glory, as well as it was built on an high hill, and was itself one hundred and twenty cubits high, 2 Chronicles 3:4 , the Targum is, "and this house which was high shall be destroyed:' everyone that passeth by it shall be astonished ; at the ruins of the temple, and of the city of Jerusalem, which had been so magnificent: and shall hiss ; in scorn and derision of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:9

And they shall answer ,.... Who were left in the land when others were carried captive, as were some by Nebuchadnezzar, and who were capable of making the following answer: because they forsook the Lord ; the worship of the Lord their God, as the Targum: who brought forth their fathers out of the land Egypt ; which is observed as an aggravation of their sin: and have taken hold upon other gods : the gods of the people, as the Targum; of the Gentiles, who knew not the true God: ... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 9:1-9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 9:9

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