2 Chronicles 6

Notes on the verses

Ver. 13. A brazen scaffold.—This verse, which is an evident parenthesis, of the nature of an explanatory note, is not to be found in the chapter of Kings above referred to. Ver. 13. Heaven of heavens—(Which words seem to imply, that there are systems and systems of systems, secondary planets; all extending beyond each other in unlimited space, in the same regular and true order which we find to prevail in our solar system; each possessing its sun, its primary and secondary planets; all extending beyond each other in unlimited space, in the which, probably, in its thousands of millions of miles in diameter, is to some others, no more than the area of the lunar orbit of the Georgium Sidus.)— Ver. 28. Dearth in the land.—“Persia,” says Chardin, “is subject to have its harvest spoiled by hail, by drought, or by insects; either locusts or small insects, which they call sim, which are small white lice;” probably the caterpillars of the text.]—Bagster Kings; but are taken, with some variation, from Psalm exxxii. which probably was composed with reference to the removal of the ark at this time.}—