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2 Chronicles 8:16

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Thus all the work of Solomon was carried out, from the day the foundation was laid for the house of the LORD until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and until it was finished. So the house of Jehovah was completed.

KJV

Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was perfected.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 8

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished,.... The materials were prepared, and the money for the expenses; and even the very stones and timber were made fit for the building, so that there was nothing to retard the completion of it: so the house of God was perfected; in the space of seven years, in all the parts, and according to the form and pattern of it, see 1Ki 6:38.

This site's exposition

burnt offerings unto the Lord on the altar

on 2 Chronicles 8:12-16

Solomon offers the burnt offerings at the daily rate, and on the sabbaths, new moons and the three annual feasts of unleavened bread, weeks and tabernacles, exactly as the commandment of Moses required. He sets the priests in their courses and the Levites in their charges to praise and to minister, and the porters at every gate, following the order David had already established in 1 Chronicles 23-26. Verse 14 calls David the man of God, a title Chronicles gives sparingly, elsewhere only to Moses and to one later prophet. Because the priests and Levites departed not from that commandment in any matter, the chapter can close by saying the house of the LORD was perfected, worship carried out in order rather than stone alone finishing the temple.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The work was the main matter, not the place; the temple was unfinished till all this was done. He did himself in person visit the sea-port towns of Eloth and Ezion-geber; for those that deal much in the world will find it their interest, as far as they can, to inspect their affairs themselves and to see with their own eyes,

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

until this day [from] the founding of the House of the Lord From the day of its founding until its completion.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 8:16:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
They did not depart miṣvat ha-melekh. This elides a prepositional mem: it means mi-miṣvat ha-melekh (=from the commandment of the king).
Radak: Provence, 1160–1235 · Radak on II Chronicles 8:15:1, via Sefaria, The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַתִּכֹּן֙and it was arranged

    vatikonH3559 →217 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • מְלֶ֣אכֶת[the] work of

    melekhetH4399 →167 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֔הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • הַיּ֛וֹםthe day of

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • מוּסַ֥ד[the] foundation of

    musadH4143 →

  • בֵּית־[the] house of

    beit-H1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וְעַד־and until

    vead-H5704 →1261 times

  • כְּלֹת֑וֹwas complete it

    kelotoH3615 →208 times

  • שָׁלֵ֖ם[was] complete

    shalemH8003 →28 times

  • בֵּ֥ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃ סYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 6:7

    The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 27:5–6

      Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.

    • 1 Peter 2:5

      you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

    • Proverbs 24:27

      Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; after that, you may build your house.

    • 1 Kings 5:17–18

      And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.

    • Exodus 20:25

      Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 5:18

    So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 13:5

      the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.

    • Ezekiel 27:9

      The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.

    • Psalms 83:7

      of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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