2 Chronicles 6:28-31 - Exposition

(See Le 2 Chronicles 26:16 -26; Deuteronomy 28:22-52 , Deuteronomy 28:59 ; Deuteronomy 20:9 .) In the cities of their land . This, to represent correctly the Hebrew, should read, in the land of their gates. Reference probably is being made to the fact that law and justice and judgment were administered "in the gate of the city" ( Deuteronomy 16:18 ; Deuteronomy 21:19 ; Joshua 20:4 ). Thou only knowest (so 1 Chronicles 28:9 ). That they may fear thee (so Psalms 130:4 ). In the absence of a healthy fear is involved both the absence of a healing hopefulness, and too probably the presence of recklessness.