2 Chronicles 3
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Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

A.M.

1 Chronicles 28:11-19 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and …

instructed [heb] founded
The length

1 Kings 6:2,3 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof …

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, 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.

And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

garnished [heb] covered
precious

1 Chronicles 29:2,8 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the …

Isaiah 54:11,12 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, …

Revelation 21:18-21 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was …

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 Calmet thinks it the same as the Parvatoi mountains of Ptolemy, at the head of the Indus.

He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

two cherubims

1 Kings 6:23-28 And within the oracle he made two cherubim of olive tree, each ten …

image work. or, as some think, of movable work.

And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

two pillars

1 Kings 7:15-24 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: …

Jeremiah 52:20-23 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that were under …

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 Kings 7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: …

high [heb] long

And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

reared up

1 Kings 7:21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set …

Jachin. that is, He shall establish
Boaz. that is, In it is strength.

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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