2 Chronicles 7:21
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
Shall be an astonishment - The manner in which these disobedient people have been destroyed is truly astonishing: no nation was ever so highly favored, and none ever so severely and signally punished.
That God accepted Solomon's prayer appeared by the fire from heaven. But a prayer may be accepted and yet not answered in the letter of it; and therefore God appeared to him in the night, as he did…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
which is high Reader, which was high. The past tense is used by a kind of anticipation, as though the Speaker spoke from a later standpoint than the age of Solomon.
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