TSK - 2 CHRONICLES 4

  1  The altar of brass.
 2  The molten sea upon twelve oxen.
 6  The ten lavers, candlesticks, and tables.
 9  The courts, and the instruments of brass.
19  The instruments of gold.


VERSE 1
- an altar.
   * 2Ch 1:5 Ex 27:1-8 1Ki 8:22,64; 9:25 2Ki 16:14,15 Eze 43:13-17


VERSE 2 
 - a molten sea.
   * Ex 30:18-21 1Ki 7:23 Zec 13:1 Tit 3:5 Re 7:14
- brim to brim.  Heb. his brim to his brim.


VERSE 3 
 - And under.
   * 1Ki 7:24-26 Eze 1:10; 10:14 1Co 9:9,10 Re 4:7
- 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 18 6:18, and 2 Ki 39 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.


VERSE 4 
 - It stood.
   * Mt 16:18 Eph 2:20 Re 21:14
- three.
   * Mt 28:19,20 Mr 16:15 Lu 24:46,47 Ac 9:15


VERSE 5 
 - 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 26 7:26.

   * 1Ki 7:26


VERSE 6 
 - ten lavers.
   * Ex 30:18-21 1Ki 7:38,40 Ps 51:2 1Co 6:11 1Jo 1:7
- such things as they offered for the burnt offering.  Heb. the
  work of burnt offering.
   * Le 1:9,13 Eze 40:38
- but the sea.
   * :2 Ex 29:4 Heb 9:14,23 Re 1:5,6; 7:14


VERSE 7 
 - ten candlesticks.
   * 1Ki 7:49 1Ch 28:15 Zec 4:2,3,11-14 Mt 5:14-16 Joh 8:12
   * Re 1:20
- according to.
   * Ex 25:31-40 1Ch 28:12,19 Heb 8:5


VERSE 8 
 - ten tables.
   * Ex 25:23-30; 37:10-16 1Ki 7:48 Isa 25:6 Eze 44:16 Mal 1:12
   * 1Co 10:21
- basons.  or, bowls.
   * Jer 52:18,19 Zec 14:20


VERSE 9 
 - the court.
   * 1Ki 6:36; 7:12

VERSE 10
    * 1Ki 7:39


VERSE 11 
 - the pots.  See
   * 1Ki 7:40,45
- basons.  or, bowls.  finished.  Heb. finished to make.


VERSE 12 
 - To wit.
   * 2Ch 3:15-17
- the pommels.
   * 1Ki 7:41


VERSE 13 
 - four hundred.
   * Ex 28:33,34 1Ki 7:20,42 So 4:13 Jer 52:23
- pillars.  Heb. face of the pillars.


VERSE 14 
 - bases.
   * 1Ki 7:27-43
- lavers.  or, caldrons.
   * :6

VERSE 15
    * :2-5


VERSE 16 
 - pots also.
   * :11 Ex 27:3; 38:3 Zec 14:20,21
- flesh-hooks.
   * 1Sa 2:13,14 1Ch 28:17
- Huram.
   * 1Ki 7:13,14,45
- Hiram.  his father.
   * 2Ch 2:13
- bright.  Heb. made bright, or scoured.


VERSE 17 
 - clay ground.  Heb. thicknesses of the ground.  Zeredathah.
   * 1Ki 7:46
- Zarthan.


VERSE 18 
 - the weight.
   * 1Ki 7:47 1Ch 22:3,14 Jer 52:20


VERSE 19 
 - all the vessels.
   * 2Ch 36:10,18 1Ki 7:48-50 2Ki 24:13; 25:13-15 Ezr 1:7-11 Jer 28:3
   * Jer 52:18,19 Da 5:2,3,23
- the golden.
   * 2Ch 26:16-18 Ex 30:1-10; 37:25-29 Re 8:3; 9:13
- the tables.
   * Ex 25:23-30 Le 24:5-8 1Ch 28:16


VERSE 20 
 - the candlesticks.
   * :7 Ex 25:31-37
- burn after.
   * Ex 27:20,21
- the oracle.
   * 1Ki 6:5,16,17; 8:6 Ps 28:2


VERSE 21 
 - 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.

   * :5 Ex 25:31-40; 37:20 1Ki 6:18,29,35
- perfect gold.  Heb. perfections of gold.
  That is, the purest and best gold.


VERSE 22 
 - snuffers.
   * Ex 37:23 1Ki 7:50 2Ki 12:13; 25:14 Jer 52:18
- basons.  or, bowls.  the entry.
  Capellus and others suppose we should read, agreeably to 1 Ki
  50 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."

   * 1Ki 6:31,32



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