2 Chr 6:5

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Since the day.

2Sam 7:6; 2Sam 7:7; 1Kgs 8:16

my name.

Exod 20:24; Exod 23:21; Deut 12:5; Deut 12:11; Dan 9:19

neither chose.

The judges and Saul were chosen by God, for a season, to be rulers of Israel; but not to establish a permanent and hereditary authority over that people, as was the case with David.

This clause is wanting in the parallel passage of Kings; but it helps to clear the sense.

1Sam 10:24; 1Sam 13:13; 1Sam 13:14; 1Sam 15:23; 2Sam 7:15; 2Sam 7:16