2 Chronicleschapter 3
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A.Building on Moriah, where the LORD appeared to Davidvv. 1-7
1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. 3 The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard. 4 The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold. 5 He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains. 6 He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim. 7 He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
B.The most holy place, its cherubim, and the veilvv. 8-14
8 Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold. 9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper area with gold. 10 In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold. 11 The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the wall of the temple, and its other wing was five cubits long and touched the wing of the other cherub. 12 The wing of the second cherub also measured five cubits and touched the wall of the temple, while its other wing measured five cubits and touched the wing of the first cherub. 13 So the total wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room. 14 He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.
C.Jachin and Boaz set up before the housevv. 15-17
15 In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits. 16 He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork. 17 Then he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. The pillar on the south he named Jachin, and the pillar on the north he named Boaz.
Chapter summary
The building begins in the second month of the fourth year, and the Chronicler locates it with two names that carry the whole story: 'in mount Moriah, where Jehovah appeared unto David his father… in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite': the mountain of Abraham's test and the floor of David's mercy.
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Chapter summary
The building begins in the second month of the fourth year, and the Chronicler locates it with two names that carry the whole story: 'in mount Moriah, where Jehovah appeared unto David his father… in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite': the mountain of Abraham's test and the floor of David's mercy.
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The building begins in the second month of the fourth year, and the Chronicler locates it with two names that carry the whole story: 'in mount Moriah, where Jehovah appeared unto David his father… in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite': the mountain of Abraham's test and the floor of David's mercy. The measurements follow: the porch, the greater house overlaid with fine gold and set with precious stones, palm trees and chains. The most holy place is twenty cubits square, its two carved cherubim standing with wings spread twenty cubits across, facing inward. The veil is of blue and purple and crimson and fine linen with cherubim wrought upon it. Before the house stand two pillars, named Jachin and Boaz.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary and John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament.
Context
History · Ezra — 2 Chronicles overview
- A. 1–7 Building on Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David
- B. 8–14 The most holy place, its cherubim, and the veil
- C. 15–17 Jachin and Boaz set up before the house
Top cross-references8 chapters ▾
1 Kings 68 verses
- 1 Kings 6:1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 6:2The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
- 1 Kings 6:15He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
- 1 Kings 6:16He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
- 1 Kings 6:20The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:21So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
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Exodus 263 verses
- Exodus 26:1“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.
- Exodus 26:31Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
- Exodus 26:33And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
- Read Exodus 26 →
1 Kings 73 verses
- 1 Kings 7:15He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
- 1 Kings 7:20On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.
- 1 Kings 7:21Thus he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jachin, and the pillar to the north he named Boaz.
- Read 1 Kings 7 →
Exodus 252 verses
- Exodus 25:18Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,
- Exodus 25:20And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
- Read Exodus 25 →
4 more chapters this one speaks with
1 Chronicles 281 verse
- 1 Chronicles 28:11Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.
- Read 1 Chronicles 28 →
Hebrews 91 verse
- Hebrews 9:3Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
- Read Hebrews 9 →
Genesis 221 verse
- Genesis 22:14And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
- Read Genesis 22 →
1 Chronicles 211 verse
- 1 Chronicles 21:18Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Read 1 Chronicles 21 →
Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.