1 Kings 9:8

1 Kings 9:8

6 ^aBut if you or your sons at all¹ turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,

7 ^athen I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated ^bfor My name I will cast out of My sight. ^cIsrael will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

8 And as for ^athis house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, ^b‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

9 Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought all this ^acalamity on them.’ ”

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10 Now ^ait happened at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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this house, which is high—"high," either in point of situation, for it was built on a hill, and therefore conspicuous to every beholder; or "high" in respect to privilege, honor, and renown; or this "house of the Most High," notwithstanding all its beauty and magnificence, shall be destroyed, and remain in such a state of ruin and degradation as to be a striking monument of the just judgment of God. The record of this second vision, in which were rehearsed the conditions of God's covenant with Solomon and the consequences of breaking them, is inserted here as a proper introduction to the narrative about to be given of this king's commercial enterprises and ambitious desire for worldly glory; for this king, by encouraging an influx of foreign people and a taste for foreign luxuries, rapidly corrupted his own mind and that of this subjects, so that they turned from following God, they and their children (I Kings 9:6).

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