2 Chronicles 4:14

_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 This in worthier material superseded the temporary altar of the tabernacle (Exodus 27:1, Exodus 27:2), made of shittim wood, and its dimensions five cubits long and broad and three cubits high.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)....

_He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases_ A simple correction of the Hebrew text gives, AND THE TEN BASES AND THE TEN LAVERS ON THE BASES, as in 1 Kings 7:43....

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....

HE MADE ALSO BASES. — _And the bases he made; and the lavers he made upon the bases._ This repetition of the verb is suspicious; and the parallel text shows the right reading to be _and the bases ten_ (in number), _and the lavers ten upon the bases._ “Ten” in Hebrew writing closely resembles “he made.” The LXX. renders, “And the bases he made ten, and the lavers he made upon the bases;” which shows that the corruption of the text is ancient....