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Text -- 2 Chronicles 3:1--5:1 (NET)
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The Building of the Temple
3:1 Solomon began building the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah , where the Lord had appeared to his father David . This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite .
3:2 He began building on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign .
3:3 Solomon laid the foundation for God’s temple ; its length (determined according to the old standard of measure ) was 90 feet , and its width 30 feet .
3:4 The porch in front of the main hall was 30 feet long , corresponding to the width of the temple , and its height was 30 feet . He plated the inside with pure gold .
3:5 He paneled the main hall with boards made from evergreen trees and plated it with fine gold , decorated with palm trees and chains .
3:6 He decorated the temple with precious stones ; the gold he used came from Parvaim .
3:7 He overlaid the temple’s rafters , thresholds , walls and doors with gold ; he carved decorative cherubim on the walls .
3:8 He made the most holy place ; its length was 30 feet , corresponding to the width of the temple , and its width 30 feet . He plated it with 600 talents of fine gold .
3:9 The gold nails weighed 50 shekels ; he also plated the upper areas with gold .
3:10 In the most holy place he made two images of cherubim and plated them with gold .
3:11 The combined wing span of the cherubs was 30 feet . One of the first cherub’s wings was seven and one-half feet long and touched one wall of the temple ; its other wing was also seven and one-half feet long and touched one of the second cherub’s wings .
3:12 Likewise one of the second cherub’s wings was seven and one-half feet long and touched the other wall of the temple ; its other wing was also seven and one-half feet long and touched one of the first cherub’s wings .
3:13 The combined wingspan of these cherubim was 30 feet . They stood upright , facing inward .
3:14 He made the curtain out of violet , purple , crimson , and white fabrics , and embroidered on it decorative cherubim .
3:15 In front of the temple he made two pillars which had a combined length of 52½ feet , with each having a plated capital seven and one-half feet high.
3:16 He made ornamental chains and put them on top of the pillars . He also made one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments and arranged them within the chains .
3:17 He set up the pillars in front of the temple , one on the right side and the other on the left . He named the one on the right Jachin , and the one on the left Boaz .
4:1 He made a bronze altar , 30 feet long , 30 feet wide , and 15 feet high .
4:2 He also made the big bronze basin called “The Sea .” It measured 15 feet from rim to rim , was circular in shape , and stood seven and one-half feet high . Its circumference was 45 feet .
4:3 Images of bulls were under it all the way around , ten every eighteen inches all the way around . The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea .”
4:4 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls . Three faced northward , three westward , three southward , and three eastward . “The Sea ” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward .
4:5 It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom . It could hold 18,000 gallons .
4:6 He made ten washing basins ; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices ; the priests washed in “The Sea .”
4:7 He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple , five on the right and five on the left .
4:8 He made ten tables and set them in the temple , five on the right and five on the left . He also made one hundred gold bowls .
4:9 He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors ; he plated their doors with bronze .
4:10 He put “The Sea ” on the south side , in the southeast corner.
4:11 Huram Abi made the pots , shovels , and bowls . He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon .
4:12 He made the two pillars , the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars , the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars ,
4:13 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar ),
4:14 the ten movable stands with their ten basins ,
4:15 the big bronze basin called “The Sea ” with its twelve bulls underneath ,
4:16 and the pots , shovels , and meat forks . All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord’s temple were made from polished bronze .
4:17 The king had them cast in earthen foundries in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan .
4:18 Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze .
4:19 Solomon also made these items for God’s temple : the gold altar , the tables on which the Bread of the Presence was kept,
4:20 the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary ,
4:21 the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps , and tongs ,
4:22 the pure gold trimming shears, basins , pans , and censers , and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place ) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple .
5:1 When Solomon had finished constructing the Lord’s temple , he put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver , gold , and all the other articles ) in the treasuries of God’s temple .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Solomon |
Temple |
TEMPLE, A1 |
Temple, Solomon's |
Laver |
BEAUTY |
Vail |
Master Workman |
Holy of Holies |
Hiram |
Cherubim |
CHERUBIM (1) |
SEA, THE MOLTEN; SEA, THE BRAZEN |
HURAM |
Parvaim |
POMMELS |
Sea, The molten |
Chapiter |
Altar |
CEILING |
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NET Notes -> 2Ch 3:1; 2Ch 3:1; 2Ch 3:2; 2Ch 3:3; 2Ch 3:3; 2Ch 3:4; 2Ch 3:4; 2Ch 3:5; 2Ch 3:5; 2Ch 3:5; 2Ch 3:5; 2Ch 3:6; 2Ch 3:6; 2Ch 3:8; 2Ch 3:8; 2Ch 3:8; 2Ch 3:8; 2Ch 3:11; 2Ch 3:11; 2Ch 3:12; 2Ch 3:13; 2Ch 3:13; 2Ch 3:15; 2Ch 3:15; 2Ch 3:15; 2Ch 3:16; 2Ch 3:17; 2Ch 3:17; 2Ch 3:17; 2Ch 4:1; 2Ch 4:1; 2Ch 4:1; 2Ch 4:2; 2Ch 4:2; 2Ch 4:2; 2Ch 4:2; 2Ch 4:2; 2Ch 4:3; 2Ch 4:4; 2Ch 4:5; 2Ch 4:9; 2Ch 4:11; 2Ch 4:11; 2Ch 4:12; 2Ch 4:14; 2Ch 4:14; 2Ch 4:16; 2Ch 4:16; 2Ch 4:17; 2Ch 4:18; 2Ch 4:19; 2Ch 4:19
NET Notes: 2Ch 3:1 In 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (“Aravna”; traditionally “A...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 3:3 Heb “the length [in] cubits by the former measure was sixty cubits, and a width of twenty cubits.” Assuming a length of 18 inches (45 cm) ...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 3:4 The Hebrew text has “one hundred and twenty cubits,” i.e. (assuming a cubit of 18 inches) 180 feet (54 m). An ancient Greek witness and th...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 3:6 The location of Parvaim, the source of the gold for Solomon’s temple, is uncertain. Some have identified it with modern Farwa in Yemen; others r...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 3:8 The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 3:11 Heb “the wing of the one was five cubits from the touching of the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits from the touching of the...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 3:12 Heb “and the wing of the one (הָאֶחָד, ha’ekhad, “the one”; this should probably be ...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 3:13 Heb “and they were standing on their feet, with their faces to the house.” An alternative translation of the last clause would be, “...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 3:15 Heb “and he made before the house two pillars, thirty-five cubits [in] length, and the plated capital which was on its top [was] five cubits....
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NET Notes: 2Ch 3:16 The Hebrew text adds here, “in the inner sanctuary,” but the description at this point is of the pillars, not the inner sanctuary.
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NET Notes: 2Ch 3:17 The meaning of the name “Boaz” is uncertain. For various proposals, see BDB 126-27 s.v. בֹּעַז. One at...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 4:1 Heb “ten cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 15 feet (4.5 m).
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NET Notes: 2Ch 4:5 Heb “3,000 baths” (note that the capacity is given in 1 Kings 7:26 as “2,000 baths”). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equi...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 4:11 Heb “Huram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of God.”
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NET Notes: 2Ch 4:14 The Hebrew text has עָשָׂה (’asah, “he made”), which is probably a corruption of עֲ&...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 4:18 Heb “Solomon made all these items in great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”
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