2 Chronicles 4:20 ASV

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 4:20

(20) With (and) their lamps, that they should burn after the manner (according to the legal rule—2 Chronicles 4:7). This is added by the chronicler, who omits “five on the right and five on the left” (Kings). The rest is as in Kings. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

The Moulding of the Vessels 2 Chronicles 4:17 I. In that temple of Solomon's we have a double type. 1. Those great and costly stones those marble blocks which were squared and polished leagues away from Jerusalem, and not brought thither till actually needed: so that not one echo of the saw, not one stroke of the mallet, was heard over all the dedicated ground. Their adaptation was perfected at a distance, and then they were set in their glorious home. 2. The brass and silver and gold work,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

{e-Sword Note: 1 and 2 Chronicles were largely in topical format in the printed edition. When possible, this content has been divided by verse/chapter. Content that could not fit elsewhere was placed in the 1 and 2 Chronicles Book Comments for e-Sword.} read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

CHAPTER 4 The Vessels that were for the House 1. The altar of brass (2 Chronicles 4:1 ) 2. The molten sea (2 Chronicles 4:2-5 ) 3. The ten loaves (2 Chronicles 4:6 ) 4. The ten candlesticks (2 Chronicles 4:7 ) 5. The ten tables (2 Chronicles 4:8 ) 6. The court (2 Chronicles 4:9-10 ) 7. The work of Huram (2 Chronicles 4:11-17 ) 8. The work of Solomon (2 Chronicles 4:18-22 ) The altar of brass, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits broad and ten cubits high, is not mentioned in the... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

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 the tabernacle, in fact 20 by 20 cubits, and 10 cubits high, - about 30 feet square and 15 feet high. Bronze (or copper) speaks of the holiness of God, so that the bronze altar emphasises the holy judgment of God borne by His holy Son as the one sacrifice for sin. Thus, we must meet God at the... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

SOLOMON ’S REIGN HIS PRAYER AND ITS ANSWER (2 Chronicles 1:1-3 ) With verses three and four compare 1 Chronicles 16:0 , and especially 1 Chronicles 16:37-40 . The tabernacle at Gibeon was the legal place for worship, but the threshing-floor on Matthew Moriah was chosen by David for the reason given (1 Chronicles 21:29 ). A comparison with the corresponding place in 1 Kings will show how this account is abbreviated as the matter was not necessary to the author’s purpose. HIS POWER AND... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

2 Chronicles 4:0 1. Moreover he made an altar [the place of this altar was in the great court, as is evident from 2Ch 6:12-13 ] of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof. 2. ¶ Also he made a molten sea [a gigantic laver for the ablution of the priests, corresponding to the laver of brass in the tabernacle (Exodus 30:18-21 ; Exo 38:8 )] of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof;... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:7-22

I include all these under one view; for of the whole it may be said, as the apostle hath before remarked, concerning the tabernacle in the wilderness, of those we cannot now speak particularly. But of this we may be sure, the Holy Ghost graciously signified, that by the whole, and from the use of all of them, the grand lesson taught was, that the way into the holiest of all, was not yet made manifest, until Christ being come; an high priest of good things to come. Precious Jesus! who shall... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - 2 Chronicles 4:9-22

The Vessels of Brass and of Gold v. 9. Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the inner court, in which the altar of burnt offering was situated, and the Great Court, the Court of Israel, where the worshiping people assembled, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass. v. 10. And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south, southeast of the altar of burnt offering. v. 11. And Huram made the pots and the shovels and the basins,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

β. The Building of the Temple, and Making of the Holy Vessels: 2 Chronicles 3:1 to 2 Chronicles 5:1.2 Chronicles 3:1 And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, which was shown to his father David, and which he had prepared in the place of David, in the floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2And he began to build in the second month, on the second1 day in the fourth year of his reign.3And this is the foundation of Solomon, to build the house of God: the length after... read more