2 Chronicles 4:22

_AND THE SNUFFERS, AND THE BASONS, AND THE SPOONS, AND THE CENSERS, OF PURE GOLD: AND THE ENTRY OF THE HOUSE, THE INNER DOORS THEREOF FOR THE MOST HOLY PLACE, AND THE DOORS OF THE HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE, WERE OF GOLD._ The snuffers, х_ HAMªZAMROWT_ (H4212)]. The Targumists, considering this word derived from Zamar, suppose it denotes musical instruments. Such meaning does not suit the context; and yet it is evident that nothing resembling our snuffers can be referred to, because these were unknown in ancient times. The probability is that they denote tweezers, because drawing up the wick of a lamp. BASONS, х_ HAMIZRAAQOWT_ (H4219)] - vases, sacrificial bowls, from which the blood of victims was sprinkled (cf. Amos 6:9). AND THE SPOONS, х_ WªHAKAPOWT_

Verse 2 Chronicles 4:22. _THE DOORS _- WERE OF _GOLD._] That is, were overlaid with _golden plates_, the thickness of which we do not know. THAT every thing in the tabernacle and temple was _typical_ or _representative_ of some excellence of the Gospel dispensation may be readily credited, without going into all the detail produced by the pious author of _Solomon's Temple Spiritualized_. We can see the general reference and the principles of the great design, though we may not be able to make a particular application of the _knops_, the _flowers_, the _pomegranates_, the _tongs_, and the _snuffers_, to some Gospel doctrines: such spiritualizing is in most cases weak, silly, religious trifling; being ill calculated to produce respect for Divine revelation....

THE ENTRY OF THE HOUSE - The text is, by some, corrected by 1 Kings 7:50, “the hinges” of the doors of the house, etc....

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 This in worthier material superseded the temporary altar of the tabernacle (Exodus 27:1, Exodus 27:2), made of shittim wood, and its dimensions five cubits long and broad and three cubits high.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

Ver. 22 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)....

PURE. purified. HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5....

_the censers_ R.V. THE FIREPANS, in which fire was carried to and from the altar. _and the entry_ R.V. AND AS FOR THE ENTRY. _the doors of the house of the temple_ R.V. THE DOORS OF THE HOUSE, TO WIT, OF THE TEMPLE. The "[greater] house" or "temple" is here distinguished from the "most holy place" or "shrine." Cp. 2 Chronicles 3:5; 2 Chronicles 3:8. were of _gold_ According to 1 Kings 7:50 the _hinges_were of gold; the doors themselves were of olive wood overlaid with gold (1 Kings 6:31-32)....

AND THE ENTRY, &C.— _And the hinges, and the doors of the inner house._ Houbigant. See 1 Kings 7:50. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The making of all these vessels, except the brazen altar, we had, 1 Kings 7. This was four times as wide, and more than thrice as high, as that of Moses. Israel being increased, and their sacrifices now likely to be more numerous, a larger altar was needful. According as God increases us, we must honour him with our substance. The sea, and the lavers, were of brass. These stood in the open air without, in the court of the priests; within all was gold:—the nearer we approach to God, the purer we must grow. The golden altar, ten new candlesticks, and as many tables of pure gold, were placed within the holy place, where lights continually burned, where incense was daily offered, an