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2 Chronicles 8 Bible study: So the house was completed
"So the LORD’s house was completed" (8:16) uses the word 2 Chronicles also uses for a heart "perfect toward him" (16:9). And Solomon built "storage cities" (8:4), as Israel once built "storage cities for Pharaoh" (Exodus 1:11), but "of the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants for his work" (8:9).
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“Now all the work of Solomon was accomplished from the day of the foundation of the LORD’s house until it was finished. So the LORD’s house was completed.”
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“In Exodus, Israel built storage cities for Pharaoh.”
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Twenty years, and the house completed
The chapter opens "At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the LORD’s house and his own house" (8:1), and it closes the building: "Now all the work of Solomon was accomplished from the day of the foundation of the LORD’s house until it was finished. So the LORD’s house was completed" (8:16) (tap accomplished, finished and completed). In between, Solomon builds cities: "the cities which Huram had given to Solomon" (8:2), "Tadmor in the wilderness" (8:4), "Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars" (8:5), and "all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion" (8:6). The chapter's one battle is a single line: "Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it" (8:3). The house was begun "in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign" (3:2), and chapter 7 said, "Thus Solomon finished the LORD’s house and the king’s house" (7:11). In Hebrew, finished in 7:11 and in 8:16 is the same verb. 1 Kings, after Solomon's offerings, puts it in fewer words: "So he finished the house" (1 Kings 9:25).
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The Hebrew word behind it
שָׁלֵםshalemsay sha-LEIM
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "complete, safe, at peace". Strong's: "complete (literally or figuratively)". "So the LORD’s house was completed" (8:16): completed is this word, an adjective, the house complete. 2 Chronicles uses it five times, and the other four describe a heart: "the heart of Asa was perfect all his days" (15:17), "them whose heart is perfect toward him" (16:9), "with a perfect heart" (19:9), and of Amaziah, "but not with a perfect heart" (25:2). 1 Kings closes the same years with "So he finished the house" (1 Kings 9:25), where finished is shillam, from the verb Strong's gives as this word's root ("from 7999").
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2 Chronicles 8 Bible study questions
- 1"So the LORD’s house was completed" (8:16), at the end of twenty years of building (8:1). What long work, for God or for people you love, are you in the middle of, and what helps you keep going to the end?
- 2Solomon said the places where the LORD's ark had come are holy (8:11). Where or when have you sensed God has been with you, and how does that change the way you treat that place or time?
- 3Solomon kept offerings "as the duty of every day required" and at feasts "three times per year" (8:13). What daily and yearly rhythms help you keep God at the center, and which would you like to start?
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