2 Chronicles 3:5

_AND THE GREATER HOUSE HE CIELED WITH FIR TREE, WHICH HE OVERLAID WITH FINE GOLD, AND SET THEREON PALM TREES AND CHAINS._ THE GREATER HOUSE - i:e., the holy places, the front or outer chamber (see the note at 1 Kings 6:17)....

THE GREATER HOUSE - i. e., the holy place, or main chamber of the temple, intervening between the porch and the holy of holies (so in 2 Chronicles 3:7). HE CIELED WITH FIR TREE - Rather, “he covered,” or “lined.” The reference is not to the ceiling, which was entirely of wood, but to the walls and floor, which were of stone, with a covering of planks (marginal reference). The word translated “fir” bears probably in this place, not the narrow meaning which it has in 2 Chronicles 2:8, where it is opposed to cedar, but a wider one, in which cedar is included. PALM TREES AND CHAINS - See 1 Kings 6:29

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....

THE GREATER HOUSE: i.e. the holy of holies. CIELED. covered. Walls as well as roof. FIR. cypress. FINE. pure. PALM TREES: i.e. artificial. CHAINS. wreathen work. Only found in connection with Tabernacle and Temple....

5 7 (cp. 1Ki 6:15; 1 Kings 6:21; 1 Kings 6:29-30). The Temple 5. _the greater house_ It was _forty_cubits long (1 Kings 6:17), whereas the shrine was _twenty_(1 Kings 6:16; 1 Kings 6:20). _he cieled_ i.e. _lined_or _boarded_. The same Hebrew word is translated _overlaid_in this same verse. _set thereon_ R.V. WROUGHT THEREON, perhaps in the form of reliefs. _palm trees and chains_ The "chains" perhaps connected one palm tree with another. In...

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

3:5 palm-trees (c-19) Or 'palms;' and so elsewhere....