2 Chronicles 7:8 - Exposition

Also at the same time … the feast ; i.e. the Feast of Tabernacles, which occupied the seven days from the fifteenth to the twenty-second of the month Tisri ( Leviticus 23:33 ). Thus fourteen days ( 1 Kings 8:65 )were occupied by the two feasts, that of the temple consecration and that of Tabernacles, while on the fifteenth day of feasting, viz. the twenty-third of the month Tisri, or Ethanim (the seventh month), the people went home. The entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt; i.e. from the extreme north to the extreme south of the land. The town Hamath was on the Orontes, through the valley of the Lebanon ( Joshua 13:3 , Joshua 13:5 ; also Numbers 13:21 ; Numbers 34:8 ; 3:3 ; 2 Kings 14:25 ; 1 Chronicles 13:5 ; Amos 6:2 , Amos 6:14 ). The river of Egypt; or, the river before Egypt ( Joshua 13:3 ), was the Shihor, or Sihor, separating Egypt and Judaea.