2 Chronicles 4:1 KJV — MannaFest

2 Chronicles 4:1

Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

KJV

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ASV

Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

WEB

He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

YLT

And he maketh an altar of brass, twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.

DBT

And he made a brazen altar: its length was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits, and its height ten cubits.

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2 Chronicles — Solomon to the exile — retold through the southern kings only. A priestly history that keeps its lens on the temple, on reform kings, and on the repentance formula (7:14) that will be quoted in a thousand sermons.

Author: The Chronicler (traditional — Ezra)
Date: Post-exilic, c. 450–400 BC

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1 Kings 8:64
The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
2 Kings 16:14
And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the Lord, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of the altar.
2 Chronicles 8:12
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the Lord on the altar of the Lord, which he had built before the porch,
Ezekiel 43:13
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
Exodus 38:1
And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.

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Both without doors and within there was that which typified the grace of the gospel and shadowed out good things to come, of which the substance is Christ. There were those things in the open court, in the view of all the people, which were very significant. There was the brazen altar,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The making of this was not mentioned in the Kings. On this all the sacrifices were offered, and it sanctified the gift. This altar was much larger than that which Moses made in the tabernacle; that was five cubits square, this was twenty cubits square.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It measured thirty-five feet by thirty-five, and in height seventeen and a half feet. The thickness of the metal used for this altar is nowhere given; but supposing it to have been three inches, the whole weight of the metal would not be under two hundred tons [NAPIER].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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