2 Chronicles 4:8-9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:1-10

David often speaks with much affection both of the house of the Lord and of the courts of our God. Both without doors and within there was that which typified the grace of the gospel and shadowed out good things to come, of which the substance is Christ. I. There were those things in the open court, in the view of all the people, which were very significant. 1. There was the brazen altar, 2 Chron. 4:1. The making of this was not mentioned in the Kings. On this all the sacrifices were offered,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

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Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 4:8

A hundred basons of gold - These were doubtless a sort of paterae or sacrificial spoons, with which they made libations. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 4:9

He made the court of the priests - This was the inner court. And the great court - This was the outer court, or place for the assembling of the people. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:1-22

The altar, the sea, the light, and the bread. The homiletics of this chapter, viewed in certain general aspects, have been already treated with those of 2 Chronicles 3:1-17 . But it remains to notice other interesting and important aspects of the contents of this chapter. As soon as these are exhibited in such a manner as to make their relative importance apparent, they do indeed become of marked interest. I. First, and no doubt first in importance, we read of the great ALTAR OF ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:8

Ten tables . These tables also (the use of which is given in 2 Chronicles 4:19 ) are not mentioned, so far as their making is concerned, in the parallel, except in its summary, verse 48 (cf. 1 Kings 7:1-51 .), where furthermore only one table, called "the table" ( Exodus 25:23 ), is specified, with which agrees our 2 Chronicles 29:18 . It is hard to explain this variation of statement. It is at least an arbitrary and forced explanation to suppose that ten tables constituted the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:8

God's bounty and our response. The significance of the table of shew-bread (of which Solomon, in his desire for fulness and richness of provision, now made ten) depends on its position and on the objects it was to sustain. The table stood in the "holy place," very near to the inner sanctuary, where the presence of God was symbolized; and it bore upon it the shewbread, or "bread of presence;" this was so called because it was "the shewbread before me always" ( Exodus 25:30 ), continually... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:9

The court of the priests . The construction of this court of the priests, withheld here, given there, leaves it ambiguous whether the "three rows of hewed stones and one row of cedar beams "intends a description of fence, as the Septuagint seems to have taken it, or of a higher floor with which the part in question was dignified. The citation Jeremiah 36:10 , though probably pointing to this same court, can scarcely be adduced as any support of J. D. Michaelis' suggestion of this latter,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 4:8

The number of the tables (see 2 Chronicles 4:19) and of the basins, is additional to the information contained in Kings. read more

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