2 Chronicles 4:6

_HE MADE ALSO TEN LAVERS, AND PUT FIVE ON THE RIGHT HAND, AND FIVE ON THE LEFT, TO WASH IN THEM: SUCH THINGS AS THEY OFFERED FOR THE BURNT OFFERING THEY WASHED IN THEM; BUT THE SEA WAS FOR THE PRIESTS TO WASH IN._ Ten lavers - (see the notes at 1 Kings 7:27.) The laver of the tabernacle had probably been destroyed. The ten new ones were placed between the porch and the altar; and while the molten sea was for the priests to cleanse their hands and feet, these were intended for washing the sacrifices....

Verse 2 Chronicles 4:6. _HE MADE ALSO TEN LAVERS_] The lavers served to wash the different parts of the victims in; and the molten sea was for the use of the priests. In this they bathed, or drew water from it for their personal purification....

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 This in worthier material superseded the temporary altar of the tabernacle (Exodus 27:1, Exodus 27:2), made of shittim wood, and its dimensions five cubits long and broad and three cubits high.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

OFFERED. offered up. Hebrew. _'alah_. App-43....

6 (cp. 2 Chronicles 4:14 and 1 Kings 7:38-39). The Lavers 6. _such things as they offered for the burnt offering_ R.V. SUCH THINGS AS BELONGED TO THE BURNT OFFERING. The lavers were mounted on bases; cp. 2 Chronicles 4:14. _for the priests_ Cp. Exodus 30:18-21; Exodus 38:8; Exodus 40:30-32. 7 (1 Kings 7:49). The G

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...