CHAPTER IV _The brazen altar_, 1. _Molten sea, and its supporters_, 2-5. _The ten lavers_, 6. _Ten golden candlesticks_, 7. _Ten tables, the hundred golden basons, and the priests'_ _court_, 8-10. _The works which Huram performed_, 11-17. _Solomon finishes the temple, and its utensils_, 18-2... [ Continue 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 reading which ought to be received here. What we call _knops_ may signify _grapes, mushrooms, apples_,... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 4:5. _IT - HELD THREE THOUSAND BATHS._] In 1 Kings 7:26, it is said to hold only _two thousand baths_. As this book was written _after_ the Babylonish captivity, it is very possible that reference is here made to the Babylonish _bath_ which might have been _less_ than the Jewish.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 4:6. _HE MADE ALSO TEN LAVERS_] The lavers served to wash the different parts of the victims in; and the molten sea was for the use of the priests. In this they bathed, or drew water from it for their personal purification.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 4:8. _A HUNDRED BASONS OF GOLD_] These were doubtless a sort of _paterae_ or sacrificial spoons, with which they made _libations_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 4:9. _HE MADE THE COURT OF THE PRIESTS_] This was the _inner_ court. _AND THE GREAT COURT_] This was the _outer_ court, or place for the assembling of the people.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 4:16. _HURAM HIS FATHER_] אב _ab, father_, is often used in Hebrew to signify a _master, inventor, chief operator_, and is very probably used here in the former sense by the Chaldee: _All these_ _Chiram his master made for King Solomon_; or _Chiram Abi_, or rather _Hiram_, made fo... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 4:17. _IN THE CLAY GROUND _] See on 1 Kings 7:46. Some suppose that he did not actually cast those instruments at those places, but that he brought the _clay_ from that quarter, as being the most proper for making moulds to cast in.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 4:21. _AND THE FLOWERS, AND THE LAMPS_] Probably each branch of the chandelier was made like _a plant in flower_, and the opening of the flower was either the _lamp_, or served to support it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 2 Chronicles 4:22. _THE DOORS _- WERE OF _GOLD._] That is, were overlaid with _golden plates_, the thickness of which we do not know. THAT every thing in the tabernacle and temple was _typical_ or _representative_ of some excellence of the Gospel dispensation may be readily credited, without... [ Continue Reading ]