2 Chronicles 3 - Introduction
_SOLOMON, IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN, BUILDS THE TEMPLE. THE MEASURE AND ORNAMENTS THEREOF: THE CHERUBIMS AND PILLARS._ _Before Christ 1011._... [ Continue Reading ]
_SOLOMON, IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN, BUILDS THE TEMPLE. THE MEASURE AND ORNAMENTS THEREOF: THE CHERUBIMS AND PILLARS._ _Before Christ 1011._... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THESE ARE THE THINGS WHEREIN SOLOMON, &C.— _Now Solomon made these mensurations for the building,_ &c. Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE HEIGHT WAS AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY— _And the height was twenty cubits._ Houbigant. See 1 Kings 6:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE GARNISHED THE HOUSE WITH PRECIOUS STONES FOR BEAUTY— _And he paved the floor with beautiful and excellent stones._ Houbigant. The Vulgate has it, _with marble._ Houbigant thinks that the next clause belongs to the 7th verse, where accordingly he places it. _The doors thereof with gold, and th... [ Continue Reading ]
THE UPPER CHAMBERS— This would have been rendered more properly here, _the ceiling,_ the upper part of the house.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 word צעצעים _tsaatsuiim_ expresses the manner of the workmanship, or of covering the cherubims with gol... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO PILLARS OF THIRTY AND FIVE CUBITS— See 1 Kings 7:15. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The account of the building of the temple, we had, 1 Kings 6 more at large. Three years were taken up in needful preparations; on the fourth, Solomon laid the foundation. The dimensions exactly corresponded with the pattern g... [ Continue Reading ]