2 Chronicles 4:1
The supplementary character of Chronicles is here once more apparent. The author of Kings had omitted to record the dimensions of the brass altar. It stood in the great court 2 Chronicles 6:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
The supplementary character of Chronicles is here once more apparent. The author of Kings had omitted to record the dimensions of the brass altar. It stood in the great court 2 Chronicles 6:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
For “oxen” we find in 1 Kings 7:24, “knops” or “gourds.” An early copyist, not comprehending the comparatively rare word here used for “gourd,” and expecting to hear of oxen, as soon as the molten sea was mentioned, changed the reading.... [ Continue Reading ]
THREE THOUSAND BATHS - See 1 Kings 7:23 note. It is quite possible that either here or in Kings the text may have been accidentally corrupted.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCORDING TO THEIR FORM - Rather, “after their manner” (compare 2 Chronicles 4:20). There is no allusion to the shape of the candlesticks, which were made, no doubt, after the pattern of the original candlestick of Moses.... [ Continue Reading ]
The number of the tables (see 2 Chronicles 4:19) and of the basins, is additional to the information contained in Kings.... [ Continue Reading ]
HURAM HIS FATHER - Or, “Huram his master-workman” (2 Chronicles 2:13 note).... [ Continue Reading ]
ZEREDATHAH - Or, Zarthan (marginal reference). The writer of Chronicles probably uses the name which the place bore in his own day.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TABLES - A single table only is mentioned in 1 Kings 7:48; 2 Chronicles 29:18. It is supposed that Solomon made ten similar tables, any one of which might be used for the showbread; but that the bread was never placed on more than one table at a time.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]