2 Chronicles 3:14

_AND HE MADE THE VAIL OF BLUE, AND PURPLE, AND CRIMSON, AND FINE LINEN, AND WROUGHT CHERUBIMS THEREON._ And he made the veil, х_ HAPAAROKET_ (H6532)] - the divider, the separater, between the Holy and the most Holy Place. [Septuagint, katapetasma, a thing spread over, a curtain or veil.] The united height of the pillars is here given; and though the exact dimensions would be 36 cubits, each column was only 17 1/2 cubits, a half cubit being taken up by the capital or the base. They are probably described as they were lying together in the mould before they were set up. They would be from 18 to 21 fast in circumference, and stand 40 feet in height. These pillars, or obelisks, as some call them, were highly ornamented, and formed an entrance in keeping with the splendid interior of the temple (see the notes at 1 Kings 7:15: cf.

This is an important addition to the description in Kings, where the veil is not mentioned. It was made of exactly the same colors as the veil of the tabernacle Exodus 26:31....

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...

2 Chronicles 3:1....

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....

THE VAIL. Not mentioned in 1 Kings 6....

(cp. Exodus 26:31-32). The Vail No _vail_for Solomon's Temple is mentioned in 1 Kings, but (1 Kings 6:31-32) _doors_of olive wood with cherubim carved upon them stood at the entrance of the Holy of Holies. The vail here described seems to have been borrowed by the Chronicler from the account of the tabernacle given in Exodus....

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

PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE TEMPLE This and the following chapter abbreviate what is recorded in 1 Kings 6:7....