{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/ch2002.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/ch2002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/ch2002.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \n2 Chronicles 2:1\n \nch2 2:1\nHis kingdom - A royal palace for himself and his successors. \n2 Chronicles 2:5\n \nch2 2:5\nGreat - For though the temple strictly so called, was but small, yet the buildings belonging to it, were large and numerous. \n2 Chronicles 2:6\n \nch2 2:6\nContain - When I speak of building an house for our great God, let none think I mean to comprehend God within it, for he is infinite. To sacrifice - To worship him there where he is graciously present. \n2 Chronicles 2:12\n \nch2 2:12\nMade heaven and earth - It seems Huram was not only a friend to the Jewish nation, but a proselyte to their religion, and that he worshipped Jehovah, the God of Israel, (who was now known by that name to the neighbour - nations) as the God that made heaven and earth, and the fountain of power as well as of being. \n2 Chronicles 2:14\n \nch2 2:14\nOf Dan, &c. - A good omen of uniting Jew and Gentile in the gospel - temple. \n2 Chronicles 2:17\n \nch2 2:17\nThe strangers - For David had not only numbered his own people, but afterward the strangers, that Solomon might have a true account of them, and employ them about his buildings. Yet Solomon numbered them again, because death might have made a considerable alteration among them since David's numbering. \n2 Chronicles 2:18\n \nch2 2:18\nHewers in the mountains - He would not employ the free - born Israelites in this drudgery, but the strangers that were proselytes, who having no lands, applied themselves to trades, and got their living by their industry or ingenuity.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: 2 Chronicles: 2 Chronicles Chapter 2","type":"page"}