2 Chronicles 3:1--4:22
Solomon <08010> [A.M. 2993. B.C. 1011. An. Ex. Is. 480. Solomon.]
Mount Moriah <02022 04179> [in mount Moriah.]
appeared ..... David ....... David <07200 01732> [where the Lord appeared unto David. or, which was seen of]
David. Ornan.
[Araunah.]
second ..... second <08145> [in the second.]
Solomon <08010> [A.M. 2993-3000. B.C. 1011-1004. Solomon.]
foundation <03245> [instructed. Heb. founded. The length.]
old standard ... measure <04060 07223> [the first measure.]
It is supposed, with much probability, that the first measure means the cubit used in the time of Moses, contradistinguished from that used in Babylon, and which the Israelites used after their return from captivity: and, as these Books were written after the captivity, it was necessary for the writer to make this remark, lest it should be thought that the measurement was by the Babylonish cubit, which was a palm or one-sixth shorter than the cubit of Moses; which may serve to reconcile some variations in the historical books, with respect to numbers when applied to measures.
porch <0197> [the porch.]
30 feet .............. 30 feet <06242 03967> [an hundred and twenty.]
As the height of the temple was only thirty cubits, 120 seems too great a height for the porch; but the Syriac, Arabic, and the LXX. in the codex Alexandrinus, have only twenty, probably reading, instead of {maiah weesrim,} "one hundred and twenty," {ammoth esrim,} "twenty cubits;" which brings it within the proportion of the other measures.
boards <01419> [the greater.]
decorated <06823> [garnished. Heb. covered. precious.]
Parvaim <06516> [Parvaim.]
Parvaim is supposed by Calmet to be the same as Sepharvaim in Armenia or Media; Bochart is of opinion that it is Taprobanes, now the island of Ceylon, which he drives from {taph,} a border, and Parvan, i.e., "the coast of Parvan;" but the late Editor of Calmet thinks it the same as the Parvatoi mountains of Ptolemy, at the head of the Indus.
overlaid <02645> [overlaid.]
decorative cherubim <03742 06605> [graved cherubims.]
most holy place <06944> [the most holy.]
two .... cherubim <08147 03742> [two cherubims.]
made ... images <04639 06816> [image work. or, as some think, of movable work.]
inward <01004> [inward. or, toward the house.]
curtain <06532> [the vail.]
embroidered <05927> [wrought. Heb. caused to ascend.]
two pillars <08147 05982> [two pillars.]
52½ feet <07970> [thirty.]
The Syriac and Arabic have, agreeably to the parallel passage, "eighteen cubits high;" but the Septuagint, Chaldee, and Vulgate have "thirty and five cubits high." See the Note on 1 Ki 7:15.
length <0753> [high. Heb. long.]
ornamental chains ...................... chains <08333> [chains.]
one hundred <03967> [an hundred.]
set up <06965> [reared up.]
Jachin <03199> [Jachin. that is, He shall establish. Boaz. that is, In it is strength.]
altar <04196> [an altar.]
big ... basin .... Sea <03332 03220> [a molten sea.]
rim ... rim <08193> [brim to brim. Heb. his brim to his brim.]
Images <01823> [And under.]
bulls .................. bulls <01241> [oxen.]
In the parallel passage of Kings, instead of {bekarim,} "oxen," we have {peka‹m,} "knops," in the form of colocynths. (See on 1 Ki 6:18, and 2 Ki 4:39;) which last is supposed by able critics to be the reading which ought to received be here; {bekarim,} "oxen," being a mistake for {peka‹m,} "knops." Houbigant, however, contends that the words in both places are right; but that {bakar} does not signify an ox here, but a large kind of grape, according to its meaning in Arabic. But Dr. A. Clarke states that {bakar,} or {bakarat,} has no such meaning in Arabic, though the phrase {aino 'lbikri,} or "ox-eye," signifies a species of black grape, very large, and of incredible sweetness; that consequently the criticism of this great man is not solid; and that the likeliest method of reconciling the two places is to suppose a change in the letters as above.
stood <05975> [It stood.]
Three .... three ... three .... three <07969> [three.]
lily blossom <06525 07799> [with flowers of lilies. or, like a lily flower. three thousand baths.]
In the parallel passage, it is said to hold only two thousand baths; which some think may be reconciled by supposing that the quantity of water which was commonly in it was 2,000 baths, but that, if filled up to the top, it would hold 3,000. But, as we have already seen that the Babylonish cubit was less than that of the ancient Hebrews, it might be the same with measures of capacity; so that 2,000 of the ancient Jewish baths might have been equal to 3,000 of those used after the captivity. The Targum cuts the knot: "It received 3,000 baths of dry measure, and held 2,000 of liquid measure." See 1 Ki 7:26.
ten ... basins <03595 06235> [ten lavers.]
items .... burnt sacrifices <05930 04639> [such things as they offered for the burnt offering. Heb. the work of burnt offering.]
Sea <03220> [but the sea.]
ten ... lampstands <06235 04501> [ten candlesticks.]
according ... specifications <04941> [according to.]
ten tables <07979 06235> [ten tables.]
bowls <04219> [basons. or, bowls.]
courtyard ........ enclosure .... doors <02691 05835> [the court.]
pots <05518> [the pots.]
bowls <04219> [basons. or, bowls. finished. Heb. finished to make.]
two .... two <08147> [To wit.]
bowl-shaped .......... bowl-shaped <01543> [the pommels.]
four hundred <03967 0702> [four hundred.]
pillar <05982> [pillars. Heb. face of the pillars.]
movable stands <04350> [bases.]
basins <03595> [lavers. or, caldrons.]
pots shovels <05518 03257> [pots also.]
forks <04207> [flesh-hooks.]
Huram <02361> [Huram.]
[Hiram. his father.]
polished <04838> [bright. Heb. made bright, or scoured.]
earthen foundries <0127 05645> [clay ground. Heb. thicknesses of the ground. Zeredathah.]
[Zarthan.]
weigh <04948> [the weight.]
items <03627> [all the vessels.]
gold <02091> [the golden.]
tables <07979> [the tables.]
lampstands <04501> [the candlesticks.]
burned ... specified <01197 04941> [burn after.]
inner sanctuary <01687> [the oracle.]
flower-shaped <06525> [the flowers.]
Probably each branch of the chandelier was made like a plant in flower; and the opening of the flower was either the lamp, or served to support it.
pure gold <02091 04357> [perfect gold. Heb. perfections of gold.]
That is, the purest and best gold.
trimming <04212> [snuffers.]
basins <04219> [basons. or, bowls. the entry.]
Capellus and others suppose we should read, agreeably to 1 Ki 7:50, "The hinges also of the doors of the inner house," etc.; the word {pothoth,} "hinges," being mistaken for {paithach,} "an entry" or "door-way."
2 Chronicles 4:1
altar <04196> [an altar.]
2 Chronicles 6:1--7:1
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
built <01129> [I have built.]
turned around <05437 06440> [turned his face.]
blessing <01288> [blessed.]
assembly <06951> [all the congregation.]
worthy <01288> [Blessed.]
<03027> [who hath with.]
day <03117> [Since the day.]
live <08034> [my name.]
chosen ..................... choose <0977> [neither chose.]
The judges and Saul were chosen by God, for a season, to be rulers of Israel; but not to establish a permanent and hereditary authority over that people, as was the case with David. This clause is wanting in the parallel passage of Kings; but it helps to clear the sense.
chosen Jerusalem .......... chosen <0977 03389> [But I have chosen Jerusalem.]
This clause is also not found in Kings. Jerusalem was expressly marked out, by the building of the temple, to be the centre of the worship of Israel; as Jehovah had before spoken by Moses: see the parallel passages.
chosen ........... chosen David <01732 0977> [chosen David.]
is right <02895> [thou didst well.]
son <01121> [thy son.]
kept ... promise <01697 06965> [performed his word.]
kept <06965> [I am risen.]
Lord ........................ Lord ............. Lord <03068> [as the Lord.]
set ......... ark <0727 07760> [I put the ark.]
covenant <01285> [the covenant.]
As "there was nothing in the ark but the two tables of stone," consequently they are called the covenant, i.e., a sign of the covenant.
stood <05975> [he stood.]
spread <06566> [spread forth.]
platform <03595> [scaffold.]
long <0753> [long. Heb. the length thereof, etc. the court.]
got down <01288> [kneeled down.]
Lord God ....... god <03068 0430> [O Lord God.]
God ....... god <0430> [no God.]
maintain covenantal ...... who obey <01285 08104> [keepest covenant.]
loyalty <02617> [mercy.]
have ..... promised <01696> [and spakest.]
fulfilled <04390> [hast fulfilled.]
keep ................................... watch <08104> [keep.]
said <0559> [saying.]
fail ..... successor <03772 0376> [There shall not fail thee a man. Heb. There shall not a man be cut off. to walk.]
Lord <03068> [O Lord.]
promise <01697> [let thy.]
God <0430> [But will.]
sky .... highest heaven <08064> [heaven.]
{Hashshamayim ooshemey hashshamayim} "the heavens and the heavens of heavens;" which words seem to imply that there are systems and systems of systems, each possessing its sun, its primary and secondary planets; all extending beyond each other in unlimited space, in the same regular and graduated order which we find to prevail in our solar system; which, probably, in its thousands of millions of miles in diameter, is, to some others, no more than the area of the lunar orbit to that of Georgium Sidus.
temple <01004> [how much.]
to <06437> [Have respect.]
<08085> [to hearken.]
watch <05869> [thine eyes.]
live <08034 07760> [put thy name.]
place ................ place <04725> [toward this place. or, in this place.]
<06419> [make. Heb. pray. thy dwelling place.]
forgive <05545> [forgive.]
sinning <02398> [sin.]
alleged offender <0423> [and an oath, etc. Heb. and he require an oath of him.]
alleged offender <0423> [the oath.]
heaven <08064> [from heaven.]
claims <07725> [requiting.]
<06663> [justifying.]
defeated <05062> [put to the worse. or, be smitten.]
sinned <02398> [because.]
back <07725> [shall return.]
pray <06419> [pray.]
temple <01004> [in. or, toward.]
forgive ... sin <02403 05545> [forgive the sin.]
gave <05414> [which thou.]
skies <08064> [the heaven.]
rain <04306> [there is no rain.]
prayers <06419> [if they pray.]
turn <07725> [turn.]
punish <06031> [thou dost.]
teach <03384> [when thou hast.]
right way <01870 02896> [good way.]
rain ........ given <04306 05414> [send rain.]
famine <07458> [if there be dearth.]
"Persia," says Chardin, "is subject to have its harvest spoiled by hail, by drought, or by insects; either locusts, or small insects, which they call {sim,} which are small white lice;" probably the caterpillars of the text.
locust <0697> [locusts.]
enemy <0341> [their enemies.]
land ....................... cities .... land <0776 08179> [cities of their land. Heb. land of their gates. whatsoever.]
pray <08605> [what prayer.]
acknowledge <03045> [know.]
spread out <06566> [spread forth.]
temple <01004> [in. or, toward.]
act <05414> [render.]
evaluation .............. evaluate <03045> [thou only.]
obeying <03372 03212> [fear thee.]
lifetimes <03117> [so long, etc. Heb. all the days which they live upon the face of the land.]
Foreigners <05237> [the stranger.]
come .................... come <0935> [is come.]
ability to accomplish mighty deeds <02389> [thy mighty.]
come .................... come <0935> [if they come.]
nations ............. people <05971> [that all people.]
nations ......... obey ..... people <03372 05971> [fear thee.]
temple <01004> [this house, etc. Heb. they name is called upon this house.]
people <05971> [thy people.]
toward <01870> [by the way.]
direct <06419> [they pray.]
toward <01870> [toward.]
listen ... heaven <08085 08064> [hear thou.]
vindicate <06213> [maintain.]
vindicate <04941> [cause. or, right.]
sin ........... sinless <02398> [they sin.]
one <0120> [for there is no man.]
angry <0599> [thou be angry.]
[they carry them away captives. Heb. they that take them captives carry them away.]
come ............... repent <07725> [Yet if.]
come ....... land ......... repent ......... land <07725 0776> [bethink themselves. Heb. bring back to their heart. We have sinned.]
return <07725> [return.]
direct ... prayers toward <01870 06419> [pray toward.]
city <05892> [the city.]
vindicate <04941> [cause. or, right.]
forgive <05545> [forgive.]
God <0430> [my God.]
<05869> [thine eyes.]
<0241> [thine ears.]
place <04725> [that is made in this place. Heb. of this place.]
ascend <06965> [arise.]
resting place <05118> [thy resting.]
ark <0727> [the ark.]
priests <03548> [thy priests.]
loyal followers <02623> [thy saints.]
reject <07725> [turn not.]
That is, "reject not thine anointed;" or, "repulse him not," agreeably to the interpretation of this phrase in the Syriac and Arabic versions.
[See]
chosen ones <04899> [thine anointed.]
Remember <02142> [remember.]
faithful <02617> [the mercies.]
Or, as Dr. Geddes renders, "the pious deeds of thy servant David." The Syriac has, "the good actions of thy servant."
Solomon <08010> [when Solomon.]
fire <0784> [the fire.]
splendor <03519> [the glory.]
