2 Crônicas 7

2 Crônicas 7

Utley - "Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples" YHWH's judgment on His covenant people for their disobedience (cf. Deut. 29:25-28; 1 Kgs. 9:9; Jer. 2:10-13) will be a revelation to the nations. This negative revelation is characterized in several idiomatic ways. a proverb ‒ 2 Chr. 7:20; Jer. 24:9; Ezek. 14:8 a byword ‒ 2 Chr. 7:20; Ps. 44:14; Joel 2:17 a horror ‒ Deut. 28:37; Jer. 25:9; 29:18; 49:17; 50:13 a taunt ‒ Deut. 28:37; Jer. 24:9 astonished ‒ 2 Chr. 7:21; Jer. 18:16; 19:8 sneer at ‒ Ps. 22:7 a reproach ‒ Ps. 44:13; 79:4; Jer. 24:9; 29:18; Joel 2:17; Micah 6:16 a scoffing ‒ Ps. 44:13; 79:4 a derision ‒ Ps. 44:13; 79:4; Micah 6:16 laughingstock (lit. "shaking of the head") ‒ Ps. 44:14; Jer. 18:16 hissing ‒ Jer. 18:16; 19:8; 25:9; 29:8; 50:13; Lam. 2:15; Zeph. 2:15 a terror ‒ Jer. 24:9; 29:8 a curse ‒ Jer. 24:9; 29:8 everlasting desolation ‒ Jer. 25:9; Micah 6:16 clap their hands ‒ Lam. 2:15 shake their heads ‒ Ps. 22:7; Lam. 2:15; Isa. 37:22; Jer. 18:16 Israel was meant to be a revelation of YHWH to bring the nations to Him, but their disobedience caused her to be a negative witness, showing only YHWH's judgment. The NIDOTTE, vol. 1, p. 273 (Borrow volume 1, page 273), offers a good list of the VERBS used to describe the divine removal of the covenant people from the land of Canaan because of their covenant disobedience (I have expanded below its list). be spewed out ‒ Lev. 18:28 perish quickly ‒ Deut. 4:26; 7:4 be destroyed ‒ Deut. 6:15; Josh. 23:15; 1 Kgs. 13:34; Amos 9:8 be torn from ‒ Deut. 28:63 be plucked from ‒ Deut. 28:63 scatter you ‒ Deut. 28:64 be uprooted ‒ Deut. 29:28; 1 Kgs. 14:15; 2 Chr. 7:20; Jer. 12:14; 45:4 will perish ‒ Josh. 23:13; Deut. 8:19-20 be cut off ‒ 1 Kgs. 9:7 blot it out ‒ 1 Kgs. 13:34 be carried away ‒ 2 Kgs. 17:6,23; 25:21; Jer. 13:19; 20:4; 39:9; 52:27 has removed ‒ Isa. 6:12 John Henry Jowett - UNCONSECRATED SOULS “This house which I have sanctified will I cast out of my sight,and will make it a proverb and a by-word among all nations.” —2 Chr 7:20. AND thus am I taught that consecrated houses are nothing without consecrated souls. It is not the mode of worship, but the spirit of the worshipper which forms the test of a consecrated people. If the worshipper is defiled his temple becomes an offence. When the kernel is rotten, and I offer the husk to God, the offering is a double insult to His most holy name. And yet, how tempted I am to assume that God will be pleased with the mere outsides of things, with words instead of aspiration, with postures instead of dispositions, with the letter instead of the spirit, with an ornate and costly temple instead of a sweet and lowly life! Day by day I am tempted to treat the Almighty as though He were a child! Nay, the Bible uses a more awful word; it says men treat the Lord as though He were a fool! From all such irreverence and frivolity, good Lord, deliver me! Let me ever remember that Thou “desirest truth in the inward man.” “In the hidden parts” help me “to know wisdom.” 2 Chronicles 7:21 “As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ this house. 1 Ki. 9:8. astonish. 2Chr 29:8. Je. 19:8; 49:17; 50:13. Why. De. 29:24–28. 1 Ki. 9:8, 9. Je. 5:19; 13:22; 16:10–12; 22:8, 9, 28. Related Passages: 1 Kings 9:8+ “And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE WILL ASTONISH PEOPLE As for this house, which was exalted - NET = "As for this temple, which was once majestic." See commentary 1Ki 9:8. NET NOTE - Heb "and this house which was high/elevated." The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, "Even though this temple is lofty [now]." Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, "this temple will become a heap of ruins." Everyone who passes by it will be astonished (shamen/samen) and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house - Passers by will ask "Why?" 2 Chronicles 7:22 “And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this adversity on them.’” Because they forsook. Ju. 2:12, 13. Je. 1:16. La. 2:16, 17; 4:13–15. Eze. 14:23; 36:17–20. therefore. 2Chr 36:17. Da. 9:12. Related Passages: 1 Kings 9:9+ "And they will say, 'Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the LORD has brought all this adversity on them.'" 2 Chronicles 36:17 Therefore He (NOTE WHO BROUGHT THIS ABOUT - YAHWEH!) brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand. FORSAKE GOD AND HE FORSAKES THEM And they will say - See commentary 1Ki 9:9. Who is they? Presumably this refers to non-Israelis because the next they definitely refers to Israel. Moses had warned the second generation of Israel of the consequences and national humiliation of disobedience. “All the nations will say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’ 25 “Then men will say, ‘Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. 26 ‘They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them. (Deut 29:24-26+) Because they forsook ('azab ; Lxx - egkataleipo) the LORD, the God of their fathers Who brought them from the land of Egypt (by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm - Dt 5:15+), and they adopted (chazaq - took hold of; firmly grasped) other gods and worshiped (shachah - bowed down; Lxx - proskuneo) them and served (abad) them; therefore (term of conclusion - what is it? why this conclusion?) He has brought all this adversity (ra; Lxx - kakia = evil, trouble, misfortune) on them - Note again the progression of forsaking God (His Word), and substituting idols (which are no gods), because with idols they would not have to obey. The idols are manmade and any rules they have are manmade and are not going to be constricting. The progression continues in worship of something that does not exist and even serving it. The result would be adversity and destruction of the Temple which occurred in 586 BC at the hands of the idolatrous nation of Babylon. You and I must be wholehearted, not in the miles but in the steps of our daily walk. -- F.B.Meyer THOUGHT - Dear child of God, as the old nursery rhyme says "Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?" What are you sowing today? Rest assured that you will reap the fruit (rotten or good) in the future! Adam