By the first, or ancient measure, used before the captivity. The Babylonian cubit was a hand smaller, as Ezechiel (xl. 3.) intimates. (Calmet) --- Solomon used the same cubit as Moses, but doubled the proportions. (Menochius)
Verse 2 Chronicles 3:3. _THE LENGTH - AFTER THE FIRST MEASURE WAS THREESCORE_ _CUBITS_] It is supposed that the _first measure_ means the cubit used in the time of _Moses_, contradistinguished from t...
The marginal “founded” gives a clue to another meaning of this passage, which may be translated: “Now this is the ground-plan of Solomon for the building, etc.” CUBITS AFTER THE FIRST MEASURE - i. e.,...
CHAPTER 3 THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE _ 1. The place (2 Chronicles 3:1)_ 2. The dimensions (2 Chronicles 3:3) 3. The porch and holy place (2 Chronicles 3:4) 4. The most holy (2 Ch
2 Chronicles 3:1 to 2 Chronicles 5:1. THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE AND ITS EQUIPMENT (see notes on 1 Kings 6, 1 Kings 7:13). What was said in reference to the preceding section applies also to this one....
GOD. Hebrew. _ha-'elohlm,_ the [true or triune] God....
3 (1 Kings 6:2). The Measurements of the Temple 3. _these_are the things wherein _Solomon was instructed_ R.V. THESE ARE THE FOUNDATIONS WHICH SOLOMON LAID. _cubits after the first measure_ There wer...
NOW THESE ARE THE THINGS WHEREIN SOLOMON, &C.— _Now Solomon made these mensurations for the building,_ &c. Houbigant....
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...
_NOW THESE ARE THE THINGS WHEREIN SOLOMON WAS INSTRUCTED FOR THE BUILDING OF THE HOUSE OF GOD. THE LENGTH BY CUBITS AFTER THE FIRST MEASURE WAS THREESCORE CUBITS, AND THE BREADTH TWENTY CUBITS._ Thes...
PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE TEMPLE This and the following chapter abbreviate what is recorded in 1 Kings 6:7....
THESE _are the things,_ etc.] RV 'these are the foundations which Solomon laid': the v. going on to give the ground plan. After the first measure] This implies that the length of the cubit had changed...
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE SOLOMON RULES *ISRAEL 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 SOLOMON BEGAN TO BUILD THE *TEMPLE – 2 CHRONICLES 3:1-17 V1
(_b_) DIMENSIONS OF THE TEMPLE; THE PORCK AND THE HOLY PLACE, OR NAVE (2 Chronicles 3:3). (3) NOW THESE ARE THE THINGS WHEREIN SOLOMON WAS INSTRUCTED. — Rather, _And this is the foundation_ (or ground...
וְ אֵ֨לֶּה֙ הוּסַ֣ד שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה לִ בְנֹ֖ות אֶת
SOLOMON THE chronicler's history of Solomon is constructed on the same principles as that of David, and for similar reasons. The builder of the first Temple commanded the grateful reverence of a commu...
In this and the following chapter we have the account of the building and furnishing of the Temple. In all fundamental essentials it was on the pattern of the Tabernacle which Moses had made. The prop...
Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first (b) measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits....
I have no doubt but that some interesting things are included in the dimensions, extent, and ornament. But all that we can speak of these things is, that as they were all belonging to a temple that wa...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 7. Thus Solomon having prayed, and entreated Jehovah that His eyes should be open, and His ears attent to the prayers that should be offered to Him...
2 Chronicles 3:1....
Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. Ve...
_These are the things wherein Solomon was instructed_ By David his father, and by the Spirit of God. _After the first measure threescore cubits_ According to the measure which was first fixed. _The po...
1 The place, and time of building the Temple. 3 The measure and ornaments of the house. 11 The Cherubims. 14 The vaile and pillars. 1 THEN [NOTE: 1 Kings 6:1, etc.] Solomon began to build the house...
Now, these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God, these are the fundamental proportions which he employed in erecting the Temple. THE LENGTH BY CUBITS AFTE...
THE SANCTUARY PROPER...
THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (vv.1-17) We are reminded that the site of the temple was Mount Moriah, on property bought by David from Oman the Jebusite, where his threshing floor had been (v.1). For w...
INSTRUCTED: _ Heb._ founded...
SOLOMON WAS INSTRUCTED; partly by his father David, and partly by the Spirit of God, which inspired and guided him in the whole work. Or, _these were Solomon's foundations_, the Hebrew verb being put...
2 Chronicles 3:3 foundation H3245 (H8717) Solomon H8010 building H1129 (H8800) house H1004 God H430 length H753
CONTENTS: Temple begun. The materials and dimensions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: God's Word prescribes all the details of how His work is to be carried on. Nothing can be added to or subt...
2 Chronicles 3:1. _Mount Moriah,_ or the land of vision; the place which the rabbins generally allow to be the same where Abraham offered up his son Isaac. 2 Chronicles 3:2. _Began to build._ See the...
_Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem._ THE SURPASSING BEAUTY OF THE TEMPLE I. That God did not need this lavish expenditure of gold and gems and rich ornaments II. Yet Di...
CRITICAL NOTES.] In two Chapter s is narrated the building of the temple, which correspond with 1 Kings 6, 7. Here greater fulness of description, and more precise introduction and different arrangem...
EXPOSITION 2 CHRONICLES 3:1 MOUNT MORIAH. This name מוֹריָה occurs twice in the Old Testament, viz. here and Genesis 22:2, in which latter reference it is alluded to as "the _land _of Moriah," and "o...
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the J...
1 Chronicles 28:11; 1 Kings 6:2; 1 Kings 6:3...
Instructed — By David, and by the Spirit of God. The measure — According to he measure which was first fixed....