2 Chronicles 3:10

_AND IN THE MOST HOLY HOUSE HE MADE TWO CHERUBIMS OF IMAGE WORK, AND OVERLAID THEM WITH GOLD._ Two cherubim. These figures in the tabernacle were of pure gold (Exodus 25:1), and over-shadowed the mercy-seat. The two placed in the temple were made of olive wood, overlaid with gold. They were of colossal size, like the Assyrian sculptures; for each, with expanded wings, covered a space of 10 cubits in height and length-two wings touched each other, while the other two reached the opposite walls; their fees were inward - i:e., toward the most holy house, conformably to their use, which was to veil the ark. [There is a special idiom observable in this passage. The construction alternates; for the one wing, _ KªNAP_ (H3671) _ HAA'ECHAAD_ (H259), i:e., the right wing, is masculine, and t

The word translated “image work,” or, in the margin, “moveable work,” occurs only in this passage, and has not even a Hebrew derivation. Modern Hebraists find an Arabic derivation, and explain the word to mean “carved work.”...

EXPOSITION 2 CHRONICLES 3:1 MOUNT MORIAH. This name מוֹריָה occurs twice in the Old Testament, viz. here and Genesis 22:2, in which latter reference it is alluded to as "the _land _of Moriah," and "one of the mountains" in it is spoken of. Whether the name designates the same place in each instance is more than doubtful. In the present passage the connection of the place with David is marked. Had it been the spot connected with Abraham and the proposed sacrifice of Isaac, it is at least probable that this also would have been emphasized, and not here only, but in 2 Samuel 24:17-10 and...

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CHAPTER 3 THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE _ 1. The place (2 Chronicles 3:1)_ 2. The dimensions (2 Chronicles 3:3) 3. The porch and holy place (2 Chronicles 3:4) 4. The most holy (2 Chron. 3:4-18) 5. The brazen pillars (2 Chronicles 3:15) First, the place is mentioned where the house of the LORD was built, “in Mount Moriah (Genesis 22), where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.” The building began in t

2 Chronicles 3:1 to 2 Chronicles 5:1. THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE AND ITS EQUIPMENT (see notes on 1 Kings 6, 1 Kings 7:13). What was said in reference to the preceding section applies also to this one. The Chronicler omits all mention of Solomon's other buildings, his interest being centred on the Temple; he has, on the other hand, many additions not found in 1 Kings. 2 CHRONICLES 3:1. MOUNT MORIAH: _cf._ Genesis 22:2 *; this name for the Temple mount does not occur elsewhere in the OT....

IMAGE WORK. carved work. This was no breach of the second commandment, for it was by the Divine Lawgiver's own direction....

The Cherubim 10. _of image work_ Both the meaning of the phrase and the reading are doubtful; LXX. ἔργον ἐκ ξύλων; 1 Kings 6:23, _of olive wood_(R.V.). _and overlaid_ R.V. AND THEY OVERLAID; but the singular is probably right; LXX. ἐχρύσωσεν : 1 Kings 6:28, _and he overlaid_....

CHERUBIMS OF IMAGE WORK— _Of wrought work._ Le Clerc. _Opere coagmentato,_ or of work formed in different parts, which might easily be taken in pieces. Houbigant. Parkhurst says, that the original word צעצעים _tsaatsuiim_ expresses the manner of the workmanship, or of covering the cherubims with gold, to have been by spreading or laying along the gold close upon all the parts. See his Lexicon צעה _tsaah._...

3. BUILDING THE TEMPLE (2 Chronicles 3:1 to 2 Chronicles 5:1) TEXT 2 Chronicles 3:1. Then Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where Jehovah, appeared unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2. And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3. Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was three-score cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 4. And the porch that was before the house, the length of it, according to the breadth of the house