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2 Chronicles 4:21

in 2 Chronicles 4

the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold—of purest gold;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold;

KJV

And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;

This verse in 2 Chronicles 4

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

And the flowers, and the lamps - Probably each branch of the chandelier was made like a plant in flower, and the opening of the flower was either the lamp, or served to support it.

This site's exposition

the golden altar also, and the tables

on 2 Chronicles 4:19-22

The record narrows from brass to gold for the house itself: the golden altar, the tables for the shewbread again multiplied beyond the tabernacle's one, the candlesticks and their lamps, and down to the tongs, snuffers, basons, spoons and censers, all of pure gold. Even the doors of the most holy place and of the temple are overlaid in gold, so that nothing between the brass altar in the court and the innermost door is left unadorned. Barnes notes that Kings names only a single table while Chronicles' plural implies as many as ten, matching the ten candlesticks of verse seven.

The words behind it

7 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.

  • וְהַפֶּ֧רַחand the blossom

    vehaperachH6525

  • וְהַנֵּר֛וֹתand the lamps

    vehanerotH521649 times

  • וְהַמֶּלְקַחַ֖יִםand the tongs

    vehamelkachayimH4457

  • זָהָ֑בgold

    zahavH2091389 times

  • ה֖וּאit

    hu'H19311879 times

  • מִכְל֥וֹת[was] perfection<s> of

    mikhlotH4357

  • זָהָֽב׃gold

    zahavH2091389 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

    2 Chronicles 4:5

    It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 7:26

      It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.

  • Through

    1 Kings 6:29

    Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 6:32

      The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.

    • Revelation 5:11–14

      Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels and living creatures and elders encircling the throne, and their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.

    • Revelation 7:9

      After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes…

    • Ephesians 3:10

      His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,

    • Exodus 36:8

      All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim skillfully worked into…

  • Through

    1 Kings 6:18

    The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 7:24

      Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

  • Through

    Exodus 37:20

    And on the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 1:11

      And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament.