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.
Verse 2 Chronicles 4:3. _UNDER IT WAS THE SIMILITUDE OF OXEN_] In 1 Kings 7:24, instead of _oxen_, בקרים bekarim, we have _knops_, פקעים pekaim; and this last is supposed by able critics to be the re...
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 candl
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 cou...
IN. CUBIT: or, to the height of. cubit (i.e. one-fifth of the brazen sea)....
_under it was the similitude of oxen_ This reading has the support of the LXX., but can hardly be correct. Read (cp. 1 Kings 7:24), UNDER IT THERE WERE KNOPS, "knops" being embossed ornaments of some...
SIMILITUDE OF OXEN— _The similitude of grapes._ Houbigant. See the parallel passage, 1 Kings 7:24....
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 UNDER IT WAS THE SIMILITUDE OF OXEN, WHICH DID COMPASS IT ROUND ABOUT: TEN IN A CUBIT, COMPASSING THE SEA ROUND ABOUT. TWO ROWS OF OXEN WERE CAST, WHEN IT WAS CAST._ Two rows of oxen were cast,...
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...
OXEN] rather, 'knops' (i.e. gourds): see 1 Kings 7:24....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE SOLOMON RULES *ISRAEL 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 SOLOMON MAKES VARIOUS OBJECTS FOR USE IN THE *TEMPLE – 2 CHRONICLES 4:1-22...
AND UNDER IT WAS THE SIMILITUDE OF OXEN. — Literally, _And a likeness of oxen_ (figured oxen) _under it around surrounding it, ten in the cubit encompassing the sea around: two rows_ were _the oxen, s...
וּ דְמ֣וּת בְּקָרִים֩ תַּ֨חַת לֹ֜ו סָבִ֤יב ׀
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...
The period occupied in building the Temple was seven years 1 Kings 6:38). The work being completed with filial and godly care, the king carried into the sacred enclosure all that his father had collec...
And under (b) it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: (c) ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast. (b) Meaning, under...
_Oxen. In 3 Kings vii. 24., we read Hebrew, "knops," (Haydock) or "apples." --- Of ten. Hebrew, "ten in a cubit." Hence there must have been 600 heads of oxen, as the sea was thirty cubits in circumfe...
Can anything be more similar, in figure and type, than this molten sea to the fountain opened in gospel-times for sin and for uncleanness? And observe the vast size of it, to denote the infinite fulln...
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 under it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast. Ver. 3. _The similitude of...
_A.M. 2992. B.C. 1012._ The brazen altar, sea, and lavers, 2 Chronicles 4:1. _The golden candlesticks and tables_, _2Ch 4:7, 2 Chronicles 4:8_. The doors overlaid with brass, the vessels of the altar...
[DIUERS VESSELS FOR THE TEMPLE.] 1 The Altar of brasse. 2 The molten Sea vpon twelue oxen. 6 The ten lauers, canstlesticks, and tables. 9 The Courts & the instruments of brasse. 19 The instrument...
And under it, cast together with the flower-buds which were beneath its rim, 1 Kings 7:24, WAS THE SIMILITUDE OF OXEN, WHICH DID COMPASS IT ROUND ABOUT: TEN IN A CUBIT, COMPASSING THE SEA ROUND ABOUT,...
THE ALTAR, THE MOLTEN SEA, AND THE LAVERS...
FURNISHINGS OF THE TEMPLE (vv.1-22) Some of the furnishings for the temple were placed on the outside, others inside. The bronze altar (v.1) was of course outside, and much larger than that made for...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Chronicles 4:3 likeness H1823 oxen H1241 encircling H5437 (H8802) around H5439 ten H6235 cubit H520 around H5362
CONTENTS: Further details about the temple. CHARACTERS: God, Hiram the artificer. CONCLUSION: Everything in the temple directed the worshipper to the great propitiation. So should we in all our devo...
2 Chronicles 4:1. _An altar of brass,_ twenty cubits in length and breadth, and ten cubits high, which was ascended, not by steps, Exodus 20:26, but by a sort of inclined plane; a very magnificent and...
_Moreover he made an altar of brase _ THE FURNITURE OF THE HOLY COURT 1. The altar of brass. Larger than that in tabernacle. When God enlarges our borders and business we should increase our gifts....
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 4:2 On various details of the temple, see notes on 1 Kings 7:23–47. The SEA was a large, circular water tank, outside the southeast corner of the temple ...
CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter describes the holy furniture of the temple and the court (2 Chronicles 4:1); the brass works of Huram (2 Chronicles 4:11); and the golden vessels of the sanctuary (2 Chro...
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...
Moreover he made an altar of brass, that was thirty feet long, and thirty feet wide, and it was fifteen feet high (2 Chronicles 4:1). This brazen altar for the offering of the sacrifices. And he mad...
1 Corinthians 9:10; 1 Corinthians 9:9; 1 Kings 7:24; Ezekiel 1:10;...