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Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 22:6
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C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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Solomon commissioned to build the temple. - Ch1 22:6. Before his death ( Ch1 22:5) David called his son Solomon, in order to commit to him the building of the temple, and to press it strongly upon him, Ch1 22:7-10. With this design, he informs him that it had been his intention to build a temple to the Lord, but the Lord had not permitted him to carry out this resolve, but had committed it to his son. The Keri בּני ( Ch1 22:7) is, notwithstanding the general worthlessness of the corrections in the Keri, probably to be preferred here to the Keth. בּנו, for בּנו might have easily arisen by the copyist's eye having wandered to בּנו לשׁלמה, Ch1 22:6. David's addressing him as בּני is very fitting, nay, even necessary, and not contrary to the following אני. לבבי עם, it was with my heart, i.e., I had intended, occurs indeed very often in the Chronicle, e.g., Ch1 28:2; Ch2 1:11; Ch2 6:7., Ch1 9:1; Ch1 24:4; Ch1 29:10, but is also found in other books where the sense demands it, e.g., Jos 14:7; Kg1 8:17., Ch1 10:2. In עלי ויהי, There came to me the word of Jahve ( Ch1 22:8), it is implied that the divine word was given to him as a command. The reason which David gives why the Lord did not allow him to build the temple is not stated in 1 Chron 17 (2 Sam 7), to which David here refers; instead of the reason, only the promise is there communicated, that the Lord would first build him a house, and enduringly establish his throne. This promise does not exclude the reason stated here and in Ch1 28:3, but rather implies it. As the temple was only to be built when God had enduringly established the throne of David, David could not execute this work, for he still had to conduct wars - wars, too, of the Lord - for the establishment of his kingdom, as Solomon also states it in his embassy to Hiram. Wars and bloodshed, however, are unavoidable and necessary in this earth for the establishment of the kingdom of God in opposition to its enemies, but are not consonant with its nature, as it was to receive a visible embodiment and expression in the temple. For the kingdom of God is in its essence a kingdom of peace; and battle, or war, or struggle, are only means for the restoration of peace, the reconciliation of mankind with God after the conquest of sin and all that is hostile to God in this world. See on Sa2 7:11. David, therefore, the man of war, is not to build the temple, but ( Ch1 22:9.) his son; and to him the Lord will give peace from all his enemies, so that he shall be מנוּחה אישׁ, a man of rest, and shall rightly bear the name Shelomo (Solomon), i.e., Friederich (rich in peace, Eng. Frederick), for God would give to Israel in his days, i.e., in his reign, peace and rest (שׁקט). The participle נולד after הנּה has the signification of the future, shall be born; cf. Kg1 13:2. מנוּחה אישׁ, not a man who procures peace ( Jer 51:59), but one who enjoys peace, as the following לו והניחותי shows. As to the name שׁלמה, see on Sa2 12:24. Into Ch1 22:10 David compresses the promise contained in Ch1 17:12 and Ch1 17:13. 1 Chronicles 22:11
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