2 Chronicles 3:1.
The upper chambers - Compare 1 Chronicles 28:11 . Their position is uncertain. Some place them above the holy of holies, which was ten cubits, o...
2 Chronicles 3:1 to 2 Chronicles 5:1 . The Building of the Temple and its Equipment (see notes on 1 Kings 6, 1 Kings 7:13-51 ). What was said i...
weight of the nails. These small and simple things not excluded. They held all together; and, though out of sight, are remembered and named by God....
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. The weight of the nails was fifty shekels - Bo...
The upper chambers— This would have been rendered more properly here, the ceiling, the upper part of the house.
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Particulars relating to the Temple This and the following chapter abbreviate what is recorded in 1 Kings 6:7 .
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. — Literally, And a weight for nails for shekels — fifty in gold. The LXX. and Vulg. take t...
SOLOMON THE chronicler's history of Solomon is constructed on the same principles as that of David, and for similar reasons. The builder of the fi...
In this and the following chapter we have the account of the building and furnishing of the Temple. In all fundamental essentials it was on the patte...
I have no doubt but that some interesting things are included in the dimensions, extent, and ornament. But all that we can speak of these things is,...
And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. Ver. 9. And he overlaid the upper chambers....
Fine gold amounting to six hundred talents That is, upward of three millions forty-five thousand pounds sterling. This vast sum was expended on the...
THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (vv.1-17) We are reminded that the site of the temple was Mount Moriah, on property bought by David from Oman the Jeb...
The Temple Built. B. C. 1012. 1 Then S...
Of the nails, i.e. of each of the nails or heads of those nails whereby the plates were fastened to the boards. The upper chambers; of which See...
CRITICAL NOTES.] In two Chapter s is narrated the building of the temple, which correspond with 1 Kings 6 , 7. Here greater fulness of description...
2 Chronicles 3:1 . Mount Moriah, or the land of vision; the place which the rabbins generally allow to be the same where Abraham offered up his so...
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem. The surpassing beauty of the temple I. That God did not need this lavish expend...
EXPOSITION 2 Chronicles 3:1 Mount Moriah . This name מוֹריָה occurs twice in the Old Testament, viz. here and Genesis 22:2 , in which lat...
The Sanctuary Proper
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, these nails being used to fasten the gold plate to the wooden lining of the walls. And he ove...
1 Kings 9:8 ; 2 Chronicles 3:5 ; 2 Chronicles 7:21 ; Genesis 1:26 ; Joel 2:26
Nails — Each of the nails, screws, or pins, by which the golden plates were fastened to the walls, weighed, or rather was worth, fifty shekels, wor...
9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.