The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits; and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward, literally, "'toward the house," toward the Most Holy Place, for they were represented as guarding the ark.
THEIR FACES WERE INWARD - literally, as in the margin. Instead of looking toward one another, with heads bent downward over the mercy Seat, like the cherubim of Moses Exodus 37:9, these of Solomon loo...
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....
INWARD. toward the Ark....
_twenty cubits_ Extending across the width of the whole house. _on their feet_ Not "couchant" nor "rampant" but standing as the winged bulls of Assyria stand. _inward_ R.V. TOWARDS THE HOUSE, as tho...
The Cherubim 10. _of image work_ Both the meaning of the phrase and the reading are doubtful; LXX. ἔργον ἐκ ξύλων; 1 Kings 6:23, _of olive wood_(R.V.). _and overlaid_ R.V. AND THEY OVERLAID; but the...
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...
_AND THE WINGS OF THE CHERUBIMS WERE TWENTY CUBITS LONG: ONE WING OF THE ONE CHERUB WAS FIVE CUBITS, REACHING TO THE WALL OF THE HOUSE: AND THE OTHER WING WAS LIKEWISE FIVE CUBITS, REACHING TO THE WIN...
PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE TEMPLE This and the following chapter abbreviate what is recorded in 1 Kings 6:7....
INWARD] RV 'toward the house': i.e. the Holy Place....
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
THE WINGS OF THESE CHERUBIMS. — Or, _These wings of the cherubim._ SPREAD THEMSELVES FORTH. — _Were outspreading_ (participle), 1 Chronicles 28:18. AND THEY STOOD. — _Were standing._ They were ten c...
כַּנְפֵי֙ הַ כְּרוּבִ֣ים הָ אֵ֔לֶּה פֹּֽרְשִׂ֖ים...
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...
_Toward. Hebrew, "inward;" looking at each other, (Exodus xxv. 20.) or towards the altar of holocausts._...
As to the most holy, and the vail of the temple, we, who live under gospel times, can have a clearer apprehension of their significance, since the Son of God hath come, and opened a new and living way...
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....
The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward. Ver. 13. _And their faces were inward._] Heb., Toward the house; i.e.,...
_The wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long_ Which was just the breadth of the most holy place. _And they stood on their feet_ As servants, being designed, it seems, to represent the angels, t...
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...
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...
INWARD: Or, toward the house...
HEB. TOWARDS THE HOUSE, or rather, _that house_; not the holy house, as divers understand it; for then their backs must have been turned towards the ark, which was indecent, and directly contrary to t...
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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...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 3:8 The MOST HOLY PLACE was the secret, cube-shaped room in which the ark of the covenant would be finally deposited (2 C
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...
Exodus 25:20...
Inward — Heb. towards the house, that is, the most holy house....