2 Chronicles 6:1 - Exposition

In the thick darkness ; Hebrew, מַּעֲרַפֶל . The Lord had said this in so many words, and also by not a few practical examples (Le 2 Chronicles 16:2 ; Exodus 19:9 ; Exodus 24:16 ; Exodus 25:22 ; Exodus 40:34 , Exodus 40:35 ). This thing which he said, and did, even while really instructing, after the manner of special revelation, a specialized people, is essentially what he ever has said and ever is doing in all time, in all the world, and in all nature and providence. It is a fact and it is necessary that his glory be for the present veiled in "clouds and darkness" ( Psalms 97:2 ; Psalms 18:11 ).