2 Chronicles 4:11-18

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

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:12

Pommels, ( epistylia. ) Hebrew, "cordons," or rows of pomegranates, (3 Kings vii. 18.) each consisting of one hundred; so that at the two pillars were adorned with a double row, both together would have four hundred. (Calmet) --- The precise number is fixed at ninety-six for each row, Jeremias lii. 23. (Tirinus) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:16

His father. Hebrew Abib, which is considered by some as a surname, (Menochius) or the title may be given to Hiram, on account of his skill. (Calmet) --- He is so called by the king of Tyre, (chap. ii. 13.) for having instructed him in the true faith. (Worthington) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:17

CHAPTER IV. Saredatha, or Sarthan, (3 Kings vii. 46.) not far from Bethsan, 3 Kings iv. 12. (Calmet) 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

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 4:11

Of these and the following verses See Poole "1 Kings 7:40", &c. read more

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