In Chronicles (vv. 20–21), this balance is disrupted, and the Temple is given the central place. For ‘Israel will become a proverb’ v. 20b reads ‘I will make it (i.e. the Temple) a proverb’. Thus, except for a short anonymous reference to the people, ‘I will pluck you (them) up from the land’, all references are now to the Temple: ‘this house I will cast out . . . and make it a proverb . . . everyone passing by will be astonished’. This feature links the passage more closely to its context: the dedication of the Temple.
