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2 Chronicles 4:22

in 2 Chronicles 4

the wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers of purest gold; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place as well as the doors of the main hall.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the firepans, of pure gold. And as for the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple, were of gold.

KJV

And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 4

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The doors - were of gold - That is, were overlaid with golden plates, the thickness of which we do not know. That every thing in the tabernacle and temple was typical or representative of some excellence of the Gospel dispensation may be readily credited, without going into all the detail produced by the pious author of Solomon’s Temple Spiritualized.

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 record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

The entry of the house - The text is, by some, corrected by 1Ki 7:50, “the hinges” of the doors of the house, etc.

The words behind it

16 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.

  • וְהַֽמְזַמְּר֧וֹתand the snuffers

    vehamzamerotH4212

  • וְהַמִּזְרָק֛וֹתand the bowls

    vehamizrakotH421932 times

  • וְהַכַּפּ֥וֹתand the pans

    vehakkapotH3709192 times

  • וְהַמַּחְתּ֖וֹתand the fire-pans

    vehamachtotH4289

  • זָהָ֣בgold

    zahavH2091389 times

  • סָג֑וּרpure gold

    sagurH546291 times

  • וּפֶ֣תַחand [the] entrance of

    ufetachH6607164 times

  • הַ֠בַּיִתthe house

    habayitH10042046 times

  • דַּלְתוֹתָ֨יוdoors its

    daltotavH181788 times

  • הַפְּנִימִיּ֜וֹת<the> inner

    hapenimiyotH6442

  • לְקֹ֣דֶשׁto [the] holy place of

    lekodeshH6944469 times

  • הַקֳּדָשִׁ֗יםthe holy places

    hakodashimH6944469 times

  • וְדַלְתֵ֥יand [the] doors of

    vedalteiH181788 times

  • הַבַּ֛יִתthe house

    habayitH10042046 times

  • לַהֵיכָ֖לof the temple

    laheikhalH196480 times

  • 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 Kings 25:14

    They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 27:3

      Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Kings 7:47–50

      Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

    • 2 Chronicles 24:14

      When they were finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada to make with it the articles for the house of the LORD—utensils for the service and for the…

    • 2 Chronicles 4:20–22

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

  • Through

    Jeremiah 52:18

    They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 7:45

      and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.

    • Numbers 4:14

      and place on it all the vessels used to serve there: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and sprinkling bowls—all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread over it a covering of fine…

    • 1 Kings 7:40

      Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:

  • Through

    Exodus 37:23

    He also made its seven lamps, its wick trimmers, and trays of pure gold.

    it leads to

    • Revelation 5:5

      Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

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; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869).