2 Chronicles 3:10 BSB

2 Chronicles 3:10

In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid them with gold.

KJV

And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The word translated “image work,” or, in the margin, “moveable work,” occurs only in this passage, and has not even a Hebrew derivation. Modern Hebraists find an Arabic derivation, and explain the word to mean “carved work.”

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּ֜עַשׂ	vai.Ya.'as	and he made	H6213 →
בְּבֵֽית־	be.veit-	in [the] house of	H1004 →
קֹ֤דֶשׁ	Ko.desh	[the] holy place of	H6944 →
הַקֳּדָשִׁים֙	ha.ko.da.Shim	the holy places	H6944 →
כְּרוּבִ֣ים	ke.ru.Vim	cherubim	H3742 →
שְׁנַ֔יִם	she.Na.yim	two	H8147 →
מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה	ma.'a.Seh	a work of	H4639 →
צַעֲצֻעִ֑ים	tza.'a.tzu.'Im	castings	H6816 →
וַיְצַפּ֥וּ	vay.tza.Pu	and they overlaid	H6823 →
אֹתָ֖ם	'o.Tam	<obj.> them	H853 →
זָהָֽב׃	za.Hav	gold	H2091 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Exodus 25:18
Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,
leads to
- Hebrews 9:5
  Above the ark were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.
- Ezekiel 10:20
  These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the River Kebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.
- 1 Kings 8:6–7
  Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
- 1 Chronicles 28:18
  the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense; and the plans for the chariot of the gold cherubim that spread their wings and overshadowed the ark of the covenant of the…
- Ezekiel 10:2
  And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And…

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02Original language & word study

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06About 2 Chronicles

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About 2 Chronicles