2 Chronicles 3

2 Chronicles 3:1

WHere the Lord appeared to] the Italian, had shewed to, or where the Lord had appeared to David.

2 Chronicles 3:3

The first measure] this might be some measure which was bigger then the common and ordinary measure, as who should say, geometricall cubits, see Ezech. 40. 5. and 41. 8. Others translate it in the first measure there were sixty Cubits, that is to say, in the body of the building, properly called the Temple, severall from the porticoes, and the Courts, and which was first designed, these measures were observed.

2 Chronicles 3:5

Greater] that part of the house which was called the holy place, which was forty Cubits in length, whereas the most holy place was but twenty, 1 Kings 6. 16. 17. [house] namely, the floore thereof, 1 Kings 6:15. for the walls and seilings were covered with cedar boards, 1 Kings 6. 9. 10. 15. [over-laid] laying over the boards little golden plates, fastened on with mailes whose heads were of the same metall.

2 Chronicles 3:6

Garnished] the Italian, covered, he had great store of them set in amongst those chaines which were upon those walls, which were covered with gold: [Parvaim] the signification of this word is uncertaine, some by reason of the affinity of the letters, hold it to be that which in our dayes is called Peru; and that Solomons ships did use to saile thither even in those dayes.

2 Chronicles 3:9

Of the nailes] of each one of them, and they were nothing but heads made in the fashion of golden bosses or knops, 1 Kings 6:18. and they served for heads to the nailes, with which the said plates were fastened to the said Cedar boards; and likely they were set in the middest of the eight squares of those chaines and nets, wherewith the walls were adorned: [the upper Chambers] they were certaine principall roomes of the building of the porticoes appointed for the holy Ministers to make their meales in, like unto refectories; or else for places of meetings and councell, see 1 Chronicles 28:11.

2 Chronicles 3:10

Image work] or moveable, which were not fastened nor joyned in, as those which were upon the cover of the Arke, and those which were upon the walls; Others have it moving, that is to say, made as if they were in act of flying, or going.

2 Chronicles 3:11

The wings] the foure wings of the two Cherubins together.

2 Chronicles 3:14

The vaile] the Italian, the curtaine, which seemeth to have been hanged up before the wall, which parted the holy place from the most holy one, 1 Kings 6:16. [thereon] namely, wrought in embroidery.

2 Chronicles 3:15

thirty and five] both of them, for either of them were seventeen cubites and a halfe, to which joyning the pedestall of each, which was of halfe a cubit, they came to bee of eighteen cubits a peece, as it is said, 1 Kings 7:15. Ier. 52. 21. [Chapiter] the Italian, Capitells, see upon 1 Kings 7:16.