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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;"/><title>2 Chronicles 4 Benson Commentary</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/commentaries/benson/2_chronicles/41.htm" /><link href='//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cardo&subset=greek-ext' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/bmcom/2_chronicles/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/commentaries/">Commentary</a> > <a href="../">Benson</a> > <a href="../2_chronicles/">2 Chronicles</a></div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/3.htm" title="2 Chronicles 3">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 4 <a href="../2_chronicles/5.htm" title="2 Chronicles 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Benson Commentary</div><div class="chap"> <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><span class="bld"><span class="ital">A.M. 2992. — B.C. 1012.</span></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">The brazen altar, sea, and lavers, <a href="/context/2_chronicles/4-1.htm" title="Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof....">2 Chronicles 4:1-6</a>. The golden candlesticks and tables, <a href="/2_chronicles/4-7.htm" title="And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.">2 Chronicles 4:7</a>, <a href="/2_chronicles/4-8.htm" title="He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basins of gold.">2 Chronicles 4:8</a>. The doors overlaid with brass, the vessels of the altar, and other brass work, <a href="/context/2_chronicles/4-9.htm" title="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....">2 Chronicles 4:9-18</a>. The golden altar of incense, with its appurtenances, <a href="/context/2_chronicles/4-19.htm" title="And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables where on the show bread was set;...">2 Chronicles 4:19-22</a>.</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">NOTES ON CHAPTER 4.</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld"><a href="/context/2_chronicles/4-1.htm" title="Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof....">2 Chronicles 4:1-2</a></span>. <span class="ital">Ten cubits the height thereof — </span>This was too high for the priests to lay the victims on it, without going up some kind of ascent; but as it was expressly commanded (<a href="/exodus/20-26.htm" title="Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not discovered thereon.">Exodus 20:26</a>) that they should not <span class="ital">go up by </span>steps unto God’s altar; they doubtless ascended in some other way. <span class="ital">Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits — </span>This and the following verses are explained <a href="/1_kings/7-23.htm" title="And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.">1 Kings 7:23</a>, &c.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-7.htm" title="And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.">2 Chronicles 4:7</a></span>. <span class="ital">According to their form — </span>The old form which God proscribed to Moses, <a href="/exodus/25-31.htm" title="And you shall make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.">Exodus 25:31</a>, &c. And this seems to be mentioned here, because in many other things there was a great variation from the old form; as in the posture of the cherubim, the height of the altar, and divers other things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-8.htm" title="He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basins of gold.">2 Chronicles 4:8</a></span>. <span class="ital">He made also ten tables — </span>Whereon <span class="ital">the show-bread was set, </span><a href="/2_chronicles/4-19.htm" title="And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables where on the show bread was set;">2 Chronicles 4:19</a>. Perhaps each of these had twelve loaves on it. As the house was enlarged, so was the provision.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-16.htm" title="The pots also, and the shovels, and the meat hooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.">2 Chronicles 4:16</a></span>. <span class="ital">Huram his father — </span>He is so called, because Solomon, it seems, usually called him by that name, out of that great respect which he bare to him for his excellent art, and the service which he did for him; it being usual to call great artists and inventors of things by this name. See <a href="/context/genesis/4-20.htm" title="And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle....">Genesis 4:20-21</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld"><a href="/context/2_chronicles/4-20.htm" title="Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;...">2 Chronicles 4:20-22</a></span>. <span class="ital">That they should burn after the manner — </span>According to the prescription of God to them by Moses. <span class="ital">The doors of the house were of gold — </span>To wit, in part. For they were not entirely of massy gold, but wood covered with plates of gold, <a href="/context/1_kings/6-31.htm" title="And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall....">1 Kings 6:31-35</a>, and <a href="/2_kings/18-16.htm" title="At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.">2 Kings 18:16</a>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="2"></a> <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><A name="3"></a> <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><A name="4"></a> <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><A name="5"></a> <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><A name="6"></a> <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><A name="7"></a> <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><A name="8"></a> <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><A name="9"></a> <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><A name="10"></a> <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><A name="11"></a> <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><A name="12"></a> <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><A name="13"></a> <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><A name="14"></a> <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><A name="15"></a> <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><A name="16"></a> <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><A name="17"></a> <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><A name="18"></a> <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><A name="19"></a> <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><A name="20"></a> <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><A name="21"></a> <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><A name="22"></a> <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 id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Benson Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<br /><br />Text Courtesy of <a href="//biblesupport.com" target="_top">BibleSupport.com</a>. 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