2 Chronicles 3:14
in 2 Chronicles 3He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
KJV
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
This is an important addition to the description in Kings, where the veil is not mentioned. It was made of exactly the same colors as the veil of the tabernacle Exo 26:31.
This site's exposition
the vail of blue, and purple
The veil hangs only here; Kings' temple account never mentions one, and its four materials, blue, purple, crimson and fine linen, are the tabernacle veil's own materials from Exodus 26:31, carried into Solomon's house with cherubim newly woven on it. Chronicles closes a gap Kings left open rather than adding an invention: the tabernacle had a veil, and the temple, its heir, keeps one too. Henry reads the torn veil of Matthew 27:51 back onto this cloth, the distance it once kept now opened by Christ's death, a link the church has drawn rather than a claim this verse makes on its own.
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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
This denoted the darkness of that dispensation, and the distance which the worshippers were kept at; but, at the death of Christ, this veil was rent; for through him we are made nigh, and have boldness not only to look, but to enter, into the holiest. On this he was wrought cherubim.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
And he made the dividing curtain of blue, purple and he hung it on the door that was in the cubit between the two partitions, through which they would enter the Holy of Holies.
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
standing on their feet on the floor of the House to the west.
thirty-five cubits long i.e., the height. And in I Kings (7:15): “And he cast the two pillars of copper, eighteen cubits, etc.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙ | vaiyaas | and he made | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַפָּרֹ֔כֶת | haparokhet | the curtain | H6532 → | |
| תְּכֵ֥לֶת | tekhelet | violet | H8504 → | 49 times |
| וְאַרְגָּמָ֖ן | veargaman | and purple | H713 → | |
| וְכַרְמִ֣יל | vekharmil | and crimson | H3758 → | 3 times |
| וּב֑וּץ | uvutz | and fine linen | H948 → | 8 times |
| וַיַּ֥עַל | vaiyaal | and he put up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| עָלָ֖יו | ʾalav | on it | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| כְּרוּבִֽים׃ ס | keruvim | cherubim | H3742 → | 91 times |
וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙and he made
vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַפָּרֹ֔כֶתthe curtain
haparokhetH6532 →
תְּכֵ֥לֶתviolet
tekheletH8504 →49 times
וְאַרְגָּמָ֖ןand purple
veargamanH713 →
וְכַרְמִ֣ילand crimson
vekharmilH3758 →3 times
וּב֑וּץand fine linen
uvutzH948 →8 times
וַיַּ֥עַלand he put up
vaiyaalH5927 →890 times
עָלָ֖יוon it
ʾalavH5921 →5755 times
כְּרוּבִֽים׃ סcherubim
keruvimH3742 →91 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Matthew 27:51At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
it leads to
- Hebrews 10:19–22
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
- Mark 15:38
And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
- Hebrews 6:19
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
- Luke 23:45
The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn down the middle.
- Revelation 11:19
Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake,…
- Hebrews 10:19–22
Through
Hebrews 10:20by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,
it leads to
- John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- John 10:9
I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.
- Hebrews 9:8
By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- John 14:6
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.