Verse 4
“ But now YHWH my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary, nor evil occurring.”
Solomon then basically cited the promise made to David as per 1 Chronicles 22:9. YHWH had given him rest on every side from the start, with the result that there was peace and quietness in his day. For he had at the time no known adversaries (they had all been dealt with, and others had not yet arisen) and nothing physically ‘evil’ was threatening. Thus the building of YHWH’s house would take place as a celebration of peace and prosperity, rather than as a memorial of blood and death.
Solomon could have cited in his support Deuteronomy 12:19, (although as far as we know he did not), but that had strictly already been seen as fulfilled in Joshua 23:1, where again the emphasis was on the establishment of a holy people.
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