2 Chronicles 3

2 Chronicles 3:2

Of God - Appropriated to the worship of God; not such as they used on other occasions. Between common mirth and holy joy, there is a vast difference: and the limits and distances between them must be carefully kept up.

2 Chronicles 3:5

Now - This whole chapter is explained, 2 Samuel 7:1 - 29, where the same things are recorded with little variation.

2 Chronicles 3:14

Furthermore, &c. - Must he think, that his purpose was in vain, and that he should lose the reward of it? No: it being God’s act that prevented the execution of it, he shall be as fully recompensed as if it had been done.