역대하 7:16의 인용 해설

And the wheel is shattered into the pit. The eyeball will be shattered within its socket. But according to its simple interpretation, this is a wheel with which they draw water from the cistern. So is this entire matter expounded in Maseches Shabbos.²⁰151b-152a. But Midrash Kinos interprets it [i.e., verses 1-6 above] as referring to all Yisroel [as follows]: So remember your Creator in the days of your youth. As long as your youthfulness still endures, as long as the priesthood still endures, as it is stated, “And [I did] choose him from among all the tribes of Yisroel to be a Kohen to Me,”²¹I Shmuel 2:28. as long as [the covenant with] the Levyim still endures, as it is stated, “For Adonoy your God has chosen him from among all your tribes,”²²Devarim 18:5. as long as the kingship of the House of Dovid still endures, as it is stated, “And He chose Dovid, His servant,”²³Tehillim 78:70. as long as Yerusholayim still endures, about which it is stated, “the city that I have chosen,”²⁴I Melochim 11:32. as long as the Beis [Hamikdosh] still endures, about which it is stated, “And now I have chosen and sanctified this House,”²⁵II Divrei Hayomim 7:16. [and] as long as you still endure, as it is stated, “and Adonoy has chosen you.”²⁶Devarim 14:2.