For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold. — This verse is not in Kings. But it may once have followed 1 Kings 8:22. At least, marks of the chronicler’s individual style are not apparent in it.
Scaffold. — Literally, pan (kîyôr; see 2 Chronicles 4:6). The “scaffold” looked like a “laver” turned upside down, and was doubtless hollow underneath. (Comp. Nehemiah 9:4 for an analogous structure.)
Kneeled down upon his knees, and spread forth his hands. — An attitude of prayer which may be seen figured upon the monuments of ancient Egypt.
Toward heaven (ha-shâmấy’mâh). — The chronicler has used the exact form for the less precise hashâmấayim of 1 Kings 8:22.