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THEIR FACES WERE INWARD - literally, as in the margin. Instead of
looking toward one another, with heads bent downward over the mercy
Seat, like the cherubim of Moses Exodus 37:9, these of Solomon loo...
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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
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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....
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INWARD. toward the Ark....
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_twenty cubits_ Extending across the width of the whole house.
_on their feet_ Not "couchant" nor "rampant" but standing as the
winged bulls of Assyria stand.
_inward_ R.V. TOWARDS THE HOUSE, as tho...
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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...
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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...
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_AND THE WINGS OF THE CHERUBIMS WERE TWENTY CUBITS LONG: ONE WING OF
THE ONE CHERUB WAS FIVE CUBITS, REACHING TO THE WALL OF THE HOUSE: AND
THE OTHER WING WAS LIKEWISE FIVE CUBITS, REACHING TO THE WIN...
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INWARD] RV 'toward the house': i.e. the Holy Place....
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PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE TEMPLE
This and the following chapter abbreviate what is recorded in 1 Kings
6:7....
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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
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THE WINGS OF THESE CHERUBIMS. — Or, _These wings of the cherubim._
SPREAD THEMSELVES FORTH. — _Were outspreading_ (participle), 1
Chronicles 28:18.
AND THEY STOOD. — _Were standing._ They were ten c...
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כַּנְפֵי֙ הַ כְּרוּבִ֣ים הָ אֵ֔לֶּה
פֹּֽרְשִׂ֖ים...
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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...
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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...
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_Toward. Hebrew, "inward;" looking at each other, (Exodus xxv. 20.) or
towards the altar of holocausts._...
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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...
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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...
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The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits:
and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward.
Ver. 13. _And their faces were inward._] Heb., Toward the house; i.e.,...
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_The wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long_ Which was just
the breadth of the most holy place. _And they stood on their feet_ As
servants, being designed, it seems, to represent the angels, t...
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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...
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The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits; and
they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward, literally,
"'toward the house," toward the Most Holy Place, for they were...
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THE CHERUBIM, THE VEIL, AND THE PILLARS...
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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...
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INWARD:
Or, toward the house...
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HEB. TOWARDS THE HOUSE, or rather, _that house_; not the holy house,
as divers understand it; for then their backs must have been turned
towards the ark, which was indecent, and directly contrary to t...
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2 Chronicles 3:13 wings H3671 cherubim H3742 spanned H6566 (H8802)
twenty H6242 cubits H520 stood H5975 (H8802
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Exodus 25:20...
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Inward — Heb. towards the house, that is, the most holy house....