2 Chronicles 3:5 BSB

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

1798–1870

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

The greater house - i. e., the holy place, or main chamber of the temple, intervening between the porch and the holy of holies (so in 2Ch 3:7). He cieled with fir tree - Rather, “he covered,” or “lined.” The reference is not to the ceiling, which was entirely of wood, but to the walls and floor, which were of stone, with a covering of planks (marginal reference).

This site's exposition

in the second day of the second month

on 2 Chronicles 3:2-7

Chronicles gives the plan its own vocabulary. Where Kings names only the month, verse two adds the exact day, and the porch's height of a hundred and twenty cubits towers well above Kings' figure for the same building, a difference the bench reads as a copied number gone wrong rather than two towers. Gold of Parvaim and precious stones for beauty at verse six have no parallel in Kings, and the greater house of verses five and seven is this book's own name for the main chamber Kings simply calls the house.

The words behind it

13 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.

Hebrew	Sound	Meaning	Word study	In the Bible
וְאֵ֣ת׀	veet	and <obj.>	H853 →	10935 times
הַבַּ֣יִת	habayit	the house	H1004 →	2046 times
הַגָּד֗וֹל	hagadol	<the> great	H1419 →	526 times
חִפָּה֙	chipah	he overlaid	H2645 →	12 times
עֵ֣ץ	ʾetz	wood of	H6086 →	328 times
בְּרוֹשִׁ֔ים	beroshim	cypresses	H1265 →
וַיְחַפֵּ֖הוּ	vaychapehu	and he overlaid it	H2645 →	12 times
זָהָ֣ב	zahav	gold	H2091 →	389 times
ט֑וֹב	tov	fine	H2896 →	538 times
וַיַּ֧עַל	vaiyaal	and he put up	H5927 →	890 times
עָלָ֛יו	ʾalav	on it	H5921 →	5755 times
תִּמֹרִ֖ים	timorim	palm trees	H8561 →
וְשַׁרְשְׁרֽוֹת׃	vesharsherot	and chains	H8333 →	7 times