The word translated “image work,” or, in the margin, “moveable work,” occurs only in this passage, and has not even a Hebrew derivation. Modern Hebraists find an Arabic derivation, and explain the word to mean “carved work.”
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....
IMAGE WORK. carved work. This was no breach of the second commandment, for it was by the Divine Lawgiver's own direction....
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...
CHERUBIMS OF IMAGE WORK— _Of wrought work._ Le Clerc. _Opere coagmentato,_ or of work formed in different parts, which might easily be taken in pieces. Houbigant. Parkhurst says, that the original wor...
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 IN THE MOST HOLY HOUSE HE MADE TWO CHERUBIMS OF IMAGE WORK, AND OVERLAID THEM WITH GOLD._ Two cherubim. These figures in the tabernacle were of pure gold (Exodus 25:1), and over-shadowed the mer...
3:10 place (d-9) Lit. 'holy of holies;' _ Kodesh_ . see note Exodus 25:8 ....
OF IMAGE WORK] LXX has 'wroughtin wood': cp. 1 Kings 6:23; 1 Kings 11; 1 Kings 11. TWENTY CUBITS] This was the length of the four wings together....
PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE TEMPLE This and the following chapter abbreviate what is recorded in 1 Kings 6:7....
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
TWO CHERUBIMS. — 1 Kings 6:23. They were made of oleaster, plated with gold. OF IMAGE WORK. — Literally, _a work of statuary._ The Hebrew word meaning “statuary” occurs here only, and looks suspicious...
וַ יַּ֜עַשׂ בְּ בֵֽית ־קֹ֤דֶשׁ הַ קֳּדָשִׁים֙
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...
_Work. Hebrew, "of the work of young men," or resembling them. (Munster) --- Septuagint, "the work of wood." Vulgate literally, "of sculpture work," (Haydock) as Le Clerc renders the original. Some mo...
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....
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold. Ver. 10. _Two cherubims of image work._] _Opere exemtili,_ so Tremellius; of work that might be taken asun...
_Fine gold amounting to six hundred talents_ That is, upward of three millions forty-five thousand pounds sterling. This vast sum was expended on the holy of holies alone, a room only ten yards square...
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 CHERUBIM, THE VEIL, AND THE PILLARS...
And in the Most Holy House he made two cherubim of image work, literally, "a work of imagery," that is, sculptured, fashioned according to a conventional design, AND OVERLAID THEM WITH GOLD, 1 Kings 6...
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...
IMAGE WORK: Or, (as some think) of moveable work...
OF IMAGE WORK; made in the shape of young men or boys, as they commonly are. Or, _of movable work_; so called because they were not fixed to the mercy-seat, as the Mosaical cherubims were, but stood u...
2 Chronicles 3:10 Most H6944 Holy H6944 Place H1004 made H6213 (H8799) two H8147 cherubim H3742 fashioned H463
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...
1 Kings 6:23...
Image work — Or, of moveable work, not fixed to the mercy — seat, as the Mosaical cherubim, but in a moving posture. It seems, they were designed to represent the angels, who attend the Divine Majesty...