2 Chronicles 8:16 - Exposition

Was prepared . This is the niph. of כּוּן ; and occurs eight times in Chronicles, but in other conjugations forty-two times. The evident signification is, Thus was all the work of Solomon steadily ordered to the day of foundation of the house … and on uninterruptedly till it was finished; i.e. there was no remitting of diligence and care from the beginning to the end of the grand undertaking. For of this the Chronicle-history has told us, first in 2 Chronicles 2:1-18 ; and then in ch. 3-8.