2 Chronicles 3:1-3 NASB

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 3:1

1. Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David—These words seem to intimate that the region where the temple was built was previously known by the name of Moriah (Genesis 22:2), and do not afford sufficient evidence for affirming, as has been done [STANLEY], that the name was first given to the mount, in consequence of the vision seen by David. Mount Moriah was one summit of a range of hills which went under the general name of Zion. The platform of the temple is now, and has long been,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 3:3

3. these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God—by the written plan and specifications given him by his father. The measurements are reckoned by cubits, "after the first measure," that is, the old Mosaic standard. But there is great difference of opinion about this, some making the cubit eighteen, others twenty-one inches. The temple, which embodied in more solid and durable materials the ground-form of the tabernacle (only being twice as large), was... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 3:1-9

2. The temple proper 3:1-9The mention of Mount Moriah as the site of the temple (2 Chronicles 3:1) recalls God’s provision of a substitute sacrifice for Isaac on that very spot (Genesis 22:2; Genesis 22:14). [Note: See Asher Kaufman, "Where the Ancient Temple of Jerusalem Stood," Biblical Archaeology Review 9:2 (March-April 1983):40-59.] The temple would later stand there, and the high priest would offer a substitute sacrifice for Israel on the Day of Atonement each year there.The glory of the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 3:1-17

Particulars relating to the TempleThis and the following chapter abbreviate what is recorded in 1 Kings 6, 7.1. Moriah] Here the designation of the Temple hill, but in Genesis 22:2 of the ’land’ in which was situated the hill where Isaac was to be sacrificed. Where the Lord appeared unto] better ’which was shown unto,’ i.e. by the acceptance of the king’s sacrifice (1 Chronicles 21:28; 1 Chronicles 22:1).3. These are the things, etc.] RV ’these are the foundations which Solomon laid’: the v.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 3:1

(a) SITE AND DATE (2 Chronicles 3:1-2).(1) At Jerusalem in mount Moriah.—Nowhere else in the Old Testament is the Temple site so specified. (Comp. “the land of Moriah,” the place appointed for the sacrifice of Isaac, Genesis 22:2.)Where the Lord appeared unto David his father.—So LXX.; rather, who appeared unto David his father. Such is the meaning according to the common use of words. There is clearly an allusion to the etymology of MORIAH, which is assumed to signify “appearance of Jah.”... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 3:2

(2) In the second day of the second month.—Heb., in the second month in the second. The versions omit the repetition, which is probably a scribe’s error. “On the second day” would be expressed in Hebrew differently. Read simply, “And he began to build in the second month,” i.e., in Zif (or April—May). See 1 Kings 6:1. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 3:3

(b) DIMENSIONS OF THE TEMPLE; THE PORCK AND THE HOLY PLACE, OR NAVE (2 Chronicles 3:3-7).(3) Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed.—Rather, And this is the foundation (or ground-plan) of Solomon. The plural pronoun ‘çllè, “these,” is used as a neut. sing. “this” (comp. 1 Chronicles 24:19), and the hophal infinitive hûsad, “to be founded,” is used substantively, as in Ezra 3:11. So Vulgate, “Et haec sunt fundamenta quae jecit Solomon.”After the first measure.—Rather, in the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 3:1-17

{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 3:1-17

CHAPTER 3 The Building of the Temple 1. The place (2 Chronicles 3:1-2 ) 2. The dimensions (2 Chronicles 3:3 ) 3. The porch and holy place (2 Chronicles 3:4-7 ) 4. The most holy (2 Chron. 3:4-18) 5. The brazen pillars (2 Chronicles 3:15-17 ) First, the place is mentioned where the house of the LORD was built, “in Mount Moriah (Genesis 22:0 ), where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.” The building... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 2 Chronicles 3:1

3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount {a} Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.(a) Which is the mountain where Abraham was thought to have sacrificed his son, Genesis 22:2. read more

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 3:1

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 3:3

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Chronicles 3:1-9

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 3:1-17

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 3:1

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 3:2

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Chronicles 3:3

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 3:1-17

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 2 Chronicles 3:1-17

Geneva Study Bible - 2 Chronicles 3:1

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