2 Chronicles 7:12-16

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 7:12-22

That God accepted Solomon's prayer appeared by the fire from heaven. But a prayer may be accepted and yet not answered in the letter of it; and therefore God appeared to him in the night, as he did once before (2 Chron. 1:7), and after a day of sacrifice too, as then, and gave him a peculiar answer to his prayer. We had the substance of it before, 1 Kgs. 9:2-9. I. He promised to own this house for a house of sacrifice to Israel and a house of prayer for all people (Isa. 56:7): My name shall be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 7:12-22

And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night ,.... From hence, to the end of the chapter, much the same things are related as in 1 Kings 9:2 . See Gill on 1 Kings 9:2 , 1 Kings 9:3 , 1 Kings 9:4 , 1 Kings 9:5 , 1 Kings 9:6 , 1 Kings 9:7 , 1 Kings 9:8 , 1 Kings 9:9 , excepting 2 Chronicles 7:13 which contain an answer to the particular requests made by Solomon in case of a famine or pestilence, that when the people of Israel should humble themselves in prayer and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 7:12

The Lord appeared to Solomon - This was a second manifestation; see 1 Kings 9:2-9 ; (note), and the notes there. The Targum says, "The Word of the Lord appeared to Solomon." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 7:13

Or if I send pestilence - "The angel of death." - Targum. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 7:15

Now mine eyes shall be open - It shall be pleasing to me in the sight of my Word, that I should incline mine ear," etc. - Targum. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 7:1-22

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 7:1-22

The testimony by fire, and the vouchsafed glory of the Lord. This chapter invites attention to four subjects, no one of which is entirely fresh, but each one of which owns to fresh impressiveness by virtue of position, particularity of description, and the more touching associations which now surround it. Attention, then, may be called first of all and chiefly to— I. THE MARVEL OF THE DESCENDING FIRE FROM HEAVEN . It is remarkable that the parallel ( 1 Kings 8:1-66 .)... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 7:12

See 1 Kings 3:5 ; 1 Kings 9:2 ; Deuteronomy 12:2 , Deuteronomy 12:3 , Deuteronomy 12:5-7 , Deuteronomy 12:11 , Deuteronomy 12:14 ; and, by turning to the last of these sets of references, the emphasis laid here upon the house as the house of sacrifice will be amply accounted for without supposing a rather premature aside as regards synagogues. Meantime, what a feature, manifestly, the sacrifices were! read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 7:12-22

A covenant concerning the Church of God. I. THE PARTIES . 1 . The Lord. Jehovah, the supreme and self-existent Deity ( Exodus 3:14 ), the God of nature, who can "shut up heaven," "command the locusts," "send pestilence" ( 2 Chronicles 7:13 ), as well as the God of grace, who can hear prayer, forgive sin, and heal not only land, but souls ( 2 Chronicles 7:14 ); the God of providence, who can pluck up nations by the roots, and scatter them abroad upon the face of the earth ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 7:13-15

These three verses (the counterparts of 2 Chronicles 6:26 , 2 Chronicles 6:28 , 2 Chronicles 6:40 ) are not in the parallel. Although we can scarcely trace the principle of their selection from the seven parts of the prayer, they would seem to have been selected from the original work, as samples of a reply which presumably embraced reference to all the seven. When, in 2 Chronicles 7:14 , it is said, I will heal their land , the telling expression, according to the Authorized... read more

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