What does 2 Chronicles 3:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"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 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,...
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. 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 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 Tab...
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...
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...
_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...
3:5 palm-trees (c-19) Or 'palms;' and so elsewhere....
PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE TEMPLE This and the following chapter abbreviate what is recorded in 1 Kings 6:7....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE SOLOMON RULES *ISRAEL 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 SOLOMON BEGAN TO BUILD THE *TEMPLE – 2 CHRONICLES 3:1-17 V1 Then Solomon beg...
THE GREATER HOUSE. — Or, _the great chamber, i.e._ the Holy Place, or nave. (Comp. 1 Chronicles 28:11.) HE CIELED WITH FIR TREE. — _He covered with planks of fir;_ or, _panelled with fir._ To _ciel,...
וְ אֵ֣ת ׀ הַ בַּ֣יִת הַ גָּדֹ֗ול חִפָּה֙ עֵ֣ץ בְּרֹושִׁ֔ים וַ יְחַפֵּ֖הוּ זָהָ֣ב טֹ֑וב וַ...
SOLOMON THE chronicler's history of Solomon is constructed on the same principles as that of David, and for similar reasons. The builder of the first Temple commanded the grateful reverence of a commu...
In this and the following chapter we have the account of the building and furnishing of the Temple. In all fundamental essentials it was on the pattern of the Tabernacle which Moses had made. The prop...
_House. between the most holy place and the porch, (Tirinus) or it may comprise all but the porch. Hebrew, "he covered (or boarded) all this great house." (Calmet) --- Deal boards interspersed with th...
I have no doubt but that some interesting things are included in the dimensions, extent, and ornament. But all that we can speak of these things is, that as they were all belonging to a temple that wa...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 7. Thus Solomon having prayed, and entreated Jehovah that His eyes should be open, and His ears attent to the prayers that should be offered to Him...
2 Chronicles 3:1....
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains. Ver. 5. _Which he overlaid with fine gold._] As the parts of this temple were n...
_These are the things wherein Solomon was instructed_ By David his father, and by the Spirit of God. _After the first measure threescore cubits_ According to the measure which was first fixed. _The po...
1 The place, and time of building the Temple. 3 The measure and ornaments of the house. 11 The Cherubims. 14 The vaile and pillars. 1 THEN [NOTE: 1 Kings 6:1, etc.] Solomon began to build the hous...
THE SANCTUARY PROPER...
THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (vv.1-17) We are reminded that the site of the temple was Mount Moriah, on property bought by David from Oman the Jebusite, where his threshing floor had been (v.1). For...
THE GREATER HOUSE, i.e. the holy place, which was thrice as large as the lesser house, or the holy of holies, which is called _the most holy house_, DEU 8. SEE POOLE ON "1 CHRONICLES 28:11"....
2 Chronicles 3:5 larger H1419 room H1004 paneled H2645 (H8765) cypress H1265 H6086 overlaid H2645 (H8762) fine H2896 gold H2091 carved H5927 (H8686) trees H8561 chainwork H8333 the greater - 1 Kings...
CONTENTS: Temple begun. The materials and dimensions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: God's Word prescribes all the details of how His work is to be carried on. Nothing can be added to or subt...
2 Chronicles 3:1. _Mount Moriah,_ or the land of vision; the place which the rabbins generally allow to be the same where Abraham offered up his son Isaac. 2 Chronicles 3:2. _Began to build._ See the...
_Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem._ THE SURPASSING BEAUTY OF THE TEMPLE I. That God did not need this lavish expenditure of gold and gems and rich ornaments II. Yet Di...
CRITICAL NOTES.] In two Chapter s is narrated the building of the temple, which correspond with 1 Kings 6, 7. Here greater fulness of description, and more precise introduction and different arrangem...
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 "o...
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the J...
1 Kings 6:15; 1 Kings 6:21; 1 Kings 6:22...
Greater house — The holy place, which was thrice as large as the holy of holies....