2 Chronicles 4:2

_ALSO HE MADE A MOLTEN SEA OF TEN CUBITS FROM BRIM TO BRIM, ROUND IN COMPASS, AND FIVE CUBITS THE HEIGHT THEREOF; AND A LINE OF THIRTY CUBITS DID COMPASS IT ROUND ABOUT._ He made a molten sea - (see the notes at 1 Kings 7:23, as in that passage "knops" occur instead of "oxen" it is generally supposed that the rows of ornamental knops were in the form of ox-heads.)...

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 This in worthier material superseded the temporary altar of the tabernacle (Exodus 27:1, Exodus 27:2), made of shittim wood, and its dimensions five cubits long and broad and three cubits high.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

2 5 (1 Kings 7:23-26). The Molten Sea 2. _he made a molten sea_ Render, HE MADE THE SEA OF MOLTEN METAL. The "sea" or great laver was a well-known feature in temples, being a symbol of the purity needful for those who come into the divine presence. So in the heavenly temple before the throne there is a "sea" of glass (Revelation 4:6). _five cubits the height thereof_ R.V. THE HEIGHT THEREOF WAS FIVE CUBITS. _a line of thirty cubits did compass it_ i.e. it was thirty cubits in circumference....

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....

_(a)_ THE PRINCIPAL VESSELS OF THE TEMPLE (2 Chronicles 4:1). THE BRAZEN ALTAR (2 Chronicles 4:1). (l) AN ALTAR OF BRASS. — The brazen altar, or altar of burnt offering, made by Solomon, is not noticed in the parallel Chapter s of Kings (1 Kings 6:7) which describe the construction of the temple and its vessels of service, but it is incidentally mentioned in another passage of the older work (1 Kings 9:25), and its existence seems to be implied in 1 Kings 8:22;...