2 Chronicles 4:12

_TO WIT, THE TWO PILLARS, AND THE POMMELS, AND THE CHAPITERS WHICH WERE ON THE TOP OF THE TWO PILLARS, AND THE TWO WREATHS TO COVER THE TWO POMMELS OF THE CHAPITERS WHICH WERE ON THE TOP OF THE PILLARS;_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

EXPOSITION This chapter is occupied with some account of the _contents _of the house, following naturally upon the account of the structure, dimensions, and main features of the building given in the previous chapter. The parallel, so far as it goes, is found in 1 Kings 7:1. and 8. 2 CHRONICLES 4:1 AN ALTAR OF BRASS. This in worthier material superseded the temporary altar of the tabernacle (Exodus 27:1, Exodus 27:2), made of shittim wood, and its dimensions five cubits long and broad and three cubits high. Large as was the present altar of brass as compared with the altar

2 Chronicles 3:1....

CHAPTER 4 THE VESSELS THAT WERE FOR THE HOUSE _ 1. The altar of brass (2 Chronicles 4:1)_ 2. The molten sea (2 Chronicles 4:2) 3. The ten loaves (2 Chronicles 4:6) 4. The ten candlesticks (2 Chronicles 4:7) 5. The ten tables (2 Chronicles 4:8) 6. The court (2 Chronicles 4:9) 7. The work of Huram ...

2 CHRONICLES 4:1 FF. It is probable that the Chronicler, in describing the Temple furniture was influenced by what he saw in Zerubbabel's Temple. 2 Chronicles 4:9. the court of the priests...: the courts are described by the Chronicler as he saw them in his day; they were different in the first Temple (see 1 Kings 6:36; 1 Kings 7:12)....

POMMELS. bowls. WREATHS. network....

_two pillars_ See 2 Chronicles 3:15-17. _the pommels_ R.V. THE BOWLS, as in 1 Kings 7:41 for the same Hebrew word, i.e. the bowl-shaped part of the capital of a pillar. "Pommel" = "knob." _the chapiters_ In modern English, "capitals." _two wreaths_ R.V. TWO NETWORKS, as in 1 Kings 7:41 for the same Hebrew word....

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

THE CONTENTS OF THE TEMPLE 1. An ALTAR] This was in the Temple court. Though its construction is not described in Kings, it is mentioned in 1 Kings 8:64; 2 Kings 16:14...

2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE SOLOMON RULES *ISRAEL 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 SOLOMON MAKES VARIOUS OBJECTS FOR USE IN THE *TEMPLE – 2 CHRONICLES 4:1-22 V1 Solomon made a *bronze *altar 20 *cubits long, 20 *cubits wide and 10 *cubits high. V2 Then he melted metal in order to make a large round basin called ‘the sea’. It was 10 *cubits from edge to edge and 5 *cubits high. The measurement round its edge was 30 *cubits. V3 There were images of *bulls under the edge round the large basin. There were 10 *bulls to each *cubit. The *bulls were in two rows and they were part of the same piece of metal as the large basin....