2 Chronicles 4:6

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:6

Holocaust, as well as all the necessary utensils. --- Priests. They did not bathe in the sea, but drew water into other vessels. The Chaldean supposes that the work of Beseleel was for the high priest alone. (Calmet) read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - 2 Chronicles 4:1-8

The Altar, the Molten Sea, and the Lavers v. 1. Moreover, he, Solomon, through the craftsmen engaged by him, made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof and twenty cubits the breadth thereof and ten cubits the height thereof, to which the priests probably ascended by an inclined pathway. The weight of this altar, if the thickness of its walls was only three inches, must have been at least two hundred tons. v. 2. Also he made a molten sea, cast from bronze or brass, of ten... 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

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

The period occupied in building the Temple was seven years ( 1Ki 6:38 ). The work being completed with filial and godly care, the king carried into the sacred enclosure all that his father had collected and dedicated to the purpose. Thus nearly half a millennium after the Exodus the chosen people are found in the land, with a king on the throne, and a permanent Temple in the midst of the chief city at the center of the national life. "Permanent," do we say? The only principles of permanence... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

2 Chronicles 4:1 ff. It is probable that the Chronicler, in describing the Temple furniture was influenced by what he saw in Zerubbabel’ s Temple. 2 Chronicles 4:9 . the court of the priests. . . : the courts are described by the Chronicler as he saw them in his day; they were different in the first Temple (see 1 Kings 6:36; 1 Kings 7:12). read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Chronicles 4:6

Ten lavers; of which see 1 Kings 7:38, &c. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter describes the holy furniture of the temple and the court (2 Chronicles 4:1-10); the brass works of Huram (2 Chronicles 4:11-18); and the golden vessels of the sanctuary (2 Chronicles 4:19; ch. 2 Chronicles 5:1; cf. 1 Kings 7:48-51).2 Chronicles 4:1-10.—The furniture of the temple court. 2 Chronicles 4:1. Altar, of burnt offering, dimensions not given in Kings. 2 Chronicles 4:2-5. Brazen sea (cf. 1 Kings 7:23-26). Oxen, true reading appears to be knops, colocynths,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

Chapter 4Moreover he made an altar of brass, that was thirty feet long, and thirty feet wide, and it was fifteen feet high ( 2 Chronicles 4:1 ).This brazen altar for the offering of the sacrifices.And he made this molten ( 2 Chronicles 4:2 )They cast this huge brass bath for the priests to bathe in.the sea of fifteen feet from brim to brim, around in compass, seven and a half feet high; and it was, of course, forty-five feet around it. And under it was the likeness of oxen, twelve oxen that... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

2 Chronicles 4:1 . An altar of brass, twenty cubits in length and breadth, and ten cubits high, which was ascended, not by steps, Exodus 20:26, but by a sort of inclined plane; a very magnificent and most instructive altar, where sin was confessed, and typically expiated. 2 Chronicles 4:3 . Similitude of oxen ten in a cubit. This is a strange translation. The sense of the original appears to be, “a wreath of the ox-eye,” a species of grape or plum of a large size and dark colour,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Chronicles 4:1-10

2 Chronicles 4:1-10Moreover he made an altar of brase The furniture of the holy court1.The altar of brass. Larger than that in tabernacle. When God enlarges our borders and business we should increase our gifts.2. The sea of brass. God requires sanctity in all that approach Him (James 4:8).3. The ten layers. Not only the priests, but the sacrifices, must be washed. We must purify our persons and performances. Iniquity cleaves to our holy things.4. The ten golden candlesticks. One in tabernacle.... read more

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