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2 Chronicles 4:20

in 2 Chronicles 4

the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and the candlesticks with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;

KJV

Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

This verse in 2 Chronicles 4

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God

on 2 Chronicles 4:19-22

The record narrows from bronze to gold for the house itself: the golden altar, the tables for the Bread of the Presence, the lampstands. Barnes notes that 1 Kings 7:48 names a single table where the plural here matches the ten tables of verse 8.

This site's exposition

in front of the inner sanctuary

The lamps burned in the Holy Place, facing the entrance to the Most Holy Place. Barnes reads as prescribed together with the manner of the lampstands in verse 7, the order set in the law of Moses. Their pure gold marked them as furniture of the house itself.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַמְּנֹר֞וֹתthe lampstands

    hamenorotH4501 →42 times

  • וְנֵרֹתֵיהֶ֗םand lamps their

    veneroteihemH5216 →49 times

  • לְבַעֲרָ֧םto burn they

    levaaramH1197 →94 times

  • כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֛טaccording to the ordinance

    kamishpatH4941 →422 times

  • לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • הַדְּבִ֖ירthe innermost room

    hadevirH1687 →16 times

  • זָהָ֥בgold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • סָגֽוּר׃pure gold

    sagurH5462 →91 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 28:2

    Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 138:2

      I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.

    • Psalms 141:2

      May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.

    • Psalms 140:6

      I say to the LORD, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for help.

    • 1 Timothy 2:8

      Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.

    • Psalms 5:7

      But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.

  • Through

    1 Kings 6:5

    Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 6:16

      He 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.

  • Through

    1 Kings 8:6

    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.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 6:27

      And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub…

    • 1 Kings 6:19

      Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869).