--- title: "Clarke" description: "Verse 2 Chronicles 7:1. The fire came down — The cloud had come down before, now the fire consumes the sacrifice, showing that both the house and the sacr" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/2-chronicles/7" --- Verse [2 Chronicles 7:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/7/1). ***The fire came down*** — The *cloud* had come down before, now the *fire* consumes the sacrifice, showing that both the *house* and the *sacrifices* were accepted by the Lord. Verse [2 Chronicles 7:4](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/7/4). ***The king and all the people offered sacrifices*** — They presented the victims to the priests, and they and the Levites slew them, and sprinkled the blood: or perhaps the people themselves slew them; and, having caught the blood, collected the fat, &c., presented them to the priests to be offered as the law required. Verse [2 Chronicles 7:5](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/7/5). ***Twenty and two thousand oxen, &c.*** — The amount of all the victims that had been offered during the *seven* days of the feast of tabernacles, and the seven days of the feast of the *dedication*. Verse [2 Chronicles 7:8](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/7/8). ***The entering in of Hamath*** — "From the entrance of Antioch to the Nile of Egypt." - *Targum*. Verse [2 Chronicles 7:10](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/7/10). ***On the three and twentieth day*** — This was the *ninth* day of the dedication of the temple; but in [1 Kings 8:66](../../../kjv/1-kings/8/66) it is called the *eighth* day. "The meaning is this," says *Jarchi*: "he gave them liberty to return on the *eighth* day, and many of them did then return: and he dismissed the remainder on the *ninth*, what is called here the *twenty-third*, reckoning the *fourteen* days for the duration of the *two feasts*; in all, *twenty-three*." The *Targum* paraphrases this verse thus: "The people departed with a glad heart, for all the good which God had done to David his servant, on whose account the doors of the sanctuary were open and for Solomon his son, because God had heard his prayer, and the majesty of the Lord had rested on the house of the sanctuary and for Israel, his people, because God had favourably accepted their oblations, and the heavenly fire had descended, and, burning on the altar, had devoured their sacrifices." Verse [2 Chronicles 7:12](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/7/12). ***The Lord appeared to Solomon*** — This was a *second* manifestation; see [1 Kings 9:2-9](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/2-9), and the notes there. The *Targum* says, "The WORD of the Lord appeared to Solomon." Verse [2 Chronicles 7:13](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/7/13). ***Or if I send pestilence*** — "The angel of death." - *Targum*. Verse [2 Chronicles 7:15](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/7/15). ***Now mine eyes shall be open*** — It shall be pleasing to me in the *sight* of *my* WORD, that I should incline mine ear," &c. - *Targum*. Verse [2 Chronicles 7:18](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/7/18). ***There shall not fail thee a man*** — This *promise* was not fulfilled, because the *condition* was not fulfilled; they forsook God, and he cut *them* off, and the *throne* also. Verse [2 Chronicles 7:20](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/7/20). ***Then will I pluck them up by the roots*** — How completely has this been fulfilled! not only all the *branches* of the Jewish political tree have been cut off, but the very *roots* have been plucked up; so that the day of the Lord's anger has left them neither *root* nor *branch*. Verse [2 Chronicles 7:21](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/7/21). ***Shall be an astonishment*** — The *manner* in which these disobedient people have been destroyed is truly *astonishing*: no nation was ever so highly favoured, and none ever so severely and signally punished. Verse [2 Chronicles 7:22](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/7/22). ***Because they forsook the Lord*** — While they cleaved to God, the most powerful enemy could make no impression on them; but when they forsook him, then the weakest and most inconsiderable of their foes harassed, oppressed, and reduced them to bondage and misery. 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