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The dimensions of the house, as the Targum rightly explains, <a href="//biblehub.com/niv/2_chronicles/3-3.htm">2 Chronicles 3:3</a>, are said to be after the first measure, either of that of the tabernacle by Moses, or rather of that of the pattern David gave to Solomon, <a href="//biblehub.com/niv/1_chronicles/28-11.htm">1 Chronicles 28:11</a>, though some understand it of the greater cubit: the holy place is called the greater house, <a href="//biblehub.com/niv/2_chronicles/3-5.htm">2 Chronicles 3:5</a>, being twice as long as the holy of holies; in <a href="//biblehub.com/niv/2_chronicles/3-6.htm">2 Chronicles 3:6</a>, we are informed what the precious stones were for, which David and his princes gave for the temple, <a href="//biblehub.com/niv/1_chronicles/29-2.htm">1 Chronicles 29:2</a>, that they were to decorate the house; and also what sort of gold was used in overlaying it, gold of Parvaim, which some interpret of Peru (h), in America; but it is a question whether that was then known, or, if it was, must go by another name, since Peru is a late name given by the Spaniards, at their conquest of it. Bochart (i) takes it to be Taprobane, an island in the Indian sea, as if it was Taph Parvan or Provan, the shore of Parvan. Kircher (k) is of opinion it is the same with Javaim, the isles of Java in the same sea, from whence was gold, which is not very likely. Waserus (l) thinks Parvaim is the name of a town which is by Pliny (m) corruptly called Parbacia, which was in the land of Havilah, or the kingdom of the Charazenes, where was the best gold, <a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-11.htm">Genesis 2:11</a> though others suppose it to be the same with Ophir, by removing the first letter of the word, to which Pfeiffer (n) inclines, and is as probable as any; and much more probable than what the Jews (o) say, that this gold was so called, because it was red like the blood of "parim", oxen: in <a href="//biblehub.com/niv/2_chronicles/3-8.htm">2 Chronicles 3:8</a>, the quantity of gold, with which the most holy place was overlaid, is given, six hundred talents: of which See Gill on <a href="//biblehub.com/niv/1_kings/6-21.htm">1 Kings 6:21</a>, In <a href="//biblehub.com/2_chronicles/3-9.htm">2 Chronicles 3:9</a> we read of the nails with which the plates of gold were fastened to the boards, nowhere else mentioned, except in the Vulgate Latin version of <a href="//biblehub.com/niv/1_kings/6-21.htm">1 Kings 6:21</a>, "he fastened the plates with golden nails"; which version perhaps is most correct; the weight of which were fifty shekels of gold; that is, according to the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, each nail weighed so much, which amounted to seventy five pounds of our money (p). Eupolemus, an Heathen writer (q) speaks of these nails, which he makes to be silver ones; and says they were of the weight of a talent, in the form of a woman's breast, and in number four, with which the plates of gold were fastened, which were of five cubits; I suppose he means there were four of these nails in every plate of five cubits: in <a href="//biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-1.htm">2 Chronicles 4:1</a> an account is given of an "altar of brass", made by Solomon, we have not elsewhere, only referred to <a href="//biblehub.com/1_kings/8-64.htm">1 Kings 8:64</a> whether this was only covered with brass, as that made by Moses was, as some (r) think; or whether of massy brass, as Dr. Lightfoot (s) because not to be removed as that was, is not certain; the altar of the second temple was of stones unpolished, according to the Misnah (t), with which agrees"46 And laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to shew what should be done with them. 47 Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former;'' (1 Maccabees 4)and so Philo (u): "twenty cubits was the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof"; it was four times as big in its square as that of Moses, and three times higher, and a cubit over, See Gill on <a href="//biblehub.com/exodus/27-1.htm">Exodus 27:1</a>. Hecataeus (w), an Heathen writer, speaks of this altar as four square, and made of whole and unpolished stones, each side of which was twenty cubits, but the height of it he makes to be twelve cubits, in which he mistakes. It weighed, according to Jacob Leon (x) 7000 arobas of brass, each aroba containing twenty five pounds. The rest of the chapter agrees with the account in the book of Kings. (h) Erasm. Schmid. de America Orat. ad Calc. Pindar. p. 261. Montani Phaleg. in Calc. Jac. Capellus in loc. (i) Phaleg. l. 2. c. 27. & Canaan, l. 1. c. 46. col. 692. Braunius de Vest. Sacred. Heb. p. 221. (k) Prodrom. Copt. c. 4. p. 119. (l) De Antiqu. Num. Heb. l. 1. c. 6. (m) Nat. Hist l. 6. c. 28. (n) Difficil. Script. Sacr. cent. 3. loc. 16. p. 247. (o) T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 45. 1. Hieros. Yoma, fol. 41. 4. Shemot Rabba, sect. 39. fol. 136. 4. (p) Brerewood de Ponder. &c. c. 5. (q) Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 34. p. 450. (r) Cunaeus de Rep. Heb. l. 2. c. 5. (s) Prospect of the Temple, ch. 34. p. 2029. So Villalpandus. (t) Middot, c. 3. sect. 4. (u) De Victimis, p. 850. (w) Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 9. c. 4. p. 408. (x) Relation of Memorable Things in the Temple, ch. 4. p. 20. <p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-1.htm">2 Chronicles 4:1</a></div><div class="verse">Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.</div>See Introduction to Chapter 4 <p> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-2.htm">2 Chronicles 4:2</a></div><div class="verse">Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-3.htm">2 Chronicles 4:3</a></div><div class="verse">And under it <i>was</i> the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen <i>were</i> cast, when it was cast.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-4.htm">2 Chronicles 4:4</a></div><div class="verse">It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea <i>was set</i> above upon them, and all their hinder parts <i>were</i> inward.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-5.htm">2 Chronicles 4:5</a></div><div class="verse">And the thickness of it <i>was</i> an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; <i>and</i> it received and held three thousand baths.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-6.htm">2 Chronicles 4:6</a></div><div class="verse">He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea <i>was</i> for the priests to wash in.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-7.htm">2 Chronicles 4:7</a></div><div class="verse">And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set <i>them</i> in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-8.htm">2 Chronicles 4:8</a></div><div class="verse">He made also ten tables, and placed <i>them</i> in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-9.htm">2 Chronicles 4:9</a></div><div class="verse">Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-10.htm">2 Chronicles 4:10</a></div><div class="verse">And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-11.htm">2 Chronicles 4:11</a></div><div class="verse">And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-12.htm">2 Chronicles 4:12</a></div><div class="verse"><i>To wit</i>, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters <i>which were</i> on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which <i>were</i> on the top of the pillars;</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-13.htm">2 Chronicles 4:13</a></div><div class="verse">And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which <i>were</i> upon the pillars.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-14.htm">2 Chronicles 4:14</a></div><div class="verse">He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-15.htm">2 Chronicles 4:15</a></div><div class="verse">One sea, and twelve oxen under it.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-16.htm">2 Chronicles 4:16</a></div><div class="verse">The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-17.htm">2 Chronicles 4:17</a></div><div class="verse">In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-18.htm">2 Chronicles 4:18</a></div><div class="verse">Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-19.htm">2 Chronicles 4:19</a></div><div class="verse">And Solomon made all the vessels that <i>were for</i> the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread <i>was set</i>;</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-20.htm">2 Chronicles 4:20</a></div><div class="verse">Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-21.htm">2 Chronicles 4:21</a></div><div class="verse">And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, <i>made he of</i> gold, <i>and</i> that perfect gold;</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-22.htm">2 Chronicles 4:22</a></div><div class="verse">And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, <i>of</i> pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy <i>place</i>, and the doors of the house of the temple, <i>were of</i> gold.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Exposition of the Entire Bible by John Gill [1746-63].<br />Text Courtesy of <a href="//www.sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/index.htm" target="_top">Internet Sacred Texts Archive</a>.<span 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