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2 Chronicles

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Then Solomon began to build the LORD’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. See also: 1 Chronicles 21:18 Genesis 22:14 Genesis 22:2He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. See also: 1 Kings 6:1Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of God’s house: the length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits. See also: 1 Chronicles 28:11-19 1 Kings 6:2-3The porch that was in front, its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold. See also: Acts 5:12 John 10:23 Acts 3:11He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains. See also: 1 Kings 6:15-17 1 Kings 6:21-22He decorated the house with precious stones for beauty. The gold was gold from Parvaim. See also: Revelation 21:18-21 Isaiah 54:11-12 1 Chronicles 29:2He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved cherubim on the walls. See also: 1 Kings 6:20-22 Exodus 26:1 Ezekiel 7:20He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. See also: Exodus 26:33 Hebrews 9:3 1 Kings 6:16The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold. See also: 1 Chronicles 28:11In the most holy place he made two cherubim by carving, and they overlaid them with gold. See also: 1 Kings 6:23-28 Exodus 25:18The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. The wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub. The wings of these cherubim spread themselves out twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house. See also: Exodus 25:20He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim. See also: Hebrews 9:3 Matthew 27:51 Hebrews 10:20Also he made before the house two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. See also: Jeremiah 52:20-23 1 Kings 7:15-24He made chains in the inner sanctuary, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. See also: 1 Kings 7:20 1 Kings 6:21He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz. See also: 1 Kings 7:21

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

2 Chronicles 3:1

Ver. 1. Moria, which signifies vision; (C.) the place pointed out to Abraham, (Gen. xxii. 2. S.

Aug. de C. xvi. 32.) and to David. 1 Par. xxi. 15. and xxii. 1.

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2 Chronicles 3:2

Ver. 2. Second. Heb. adds, (D.) "in the second day of the second month." Prot.

&c. H.

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2 Chronicles 3:3

Ver. 3. By the first, or ancient measure, used before the captivity. The Babylonian cubit was a hand smaller, as Ezechiel (xl. 3.) intimates. C. ---

Solomon used the same cubit as Moses, but doubled the proportions. M.

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2 Chronicles 3:4

Ver. 4. A hundred. The Arab. and some copies of the Sept. read only twenty.

Capellus and Toinard would substitute, ten cubits. A small change in the Heb.

might occasion these variations.

C. --- In 3 K. vi. 2. we find the height was thirty cubits: but that might be only to the first floor.

Many think that the temple was 120 cubits high: but Salien (A. 3024) explains it of the four-square tower, (M.) in the front. C.

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2 Chronicles 3:5

Ver. 5. House. between the most holy place and the porch, (T.) or it may comprise all but the porch. Heb. "he covered (or boarded) all this great house."

C. --- Deal boards interspersed with those of cedar. 3 K. vi. 9. T. --- Fine, ( obrizi.

) Heb. "of Parvaim, which is probably the same as Sepharvaim, Ophir, &c. not far from Media and Colchis. C.

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2 Chronicles 3:8

Ver. 8. Amounting to about, is not in Heb. H.

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2 Chronicles 3:9

Ver. 9. Sicles. This weight seems enormous for each nail. Mariana supposes every nail weighed one sicle. But who will believe that only fifty were used?

Heb. "And the weight of the nails was fifty," &c. The Syr. and Arab. omit this verse entirely. --- Chambers, or rather "the ceiling."

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2 Chronicles 3:10

Ver. 10. Work. Heb. "of the work of young men," or resembling them. Munster

--- Sept. "the work of wood." Vulg. lit. "of sculpture work," (H.) as Le Clerc renders the original. Some moderns translate, "of a work like men in motion."

Mariana, Buxtorf --- The cherubims were in an erect posture.

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2 Chronicles 3:11

Ver. 11. Cubits, comprising the breadth of their body. Each occupied ten cubits.

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2 Chronicles 3:13

Ver. 13. Toward. Heb. "inward;" looking at each other, (Ex. xxv. 20.) or towards the altar of holocausts.

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2 Chronicles 3:14

Ver. 14. A veil. Abulensis places it between the court and the holy: but Jansenius would have it before the holy of holies. It seems rather that there was a veil in both places, (Barad. t. ii. b. iii.

23. M.) as Josephus (viii. 2. and xii. 10.) clearly intimates; and S. Paul speaks of the second veil.

Heb. ix. 3. It is not certain which of them was torn at the death of Jesus Christ.

Matt. xxvii. 51.

Cherubims; extraordinary figures. C.

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2 Chronicles 3:15

Ver. 15. Five. 3 K. vii. 15. we read each was eighteen cubits. It is probable that each was 17½

and the other half was for the crown, (C.) or cornice. H.

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2 Chronicles 3:16

This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.

Ver. 16. In, or "as in." Sa. M. --- Protestants supply as. H. --- Hundred, for one row, or 200 for both. 3 K. D.

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2 Chronicles 3:17

Ver. 17. Booz. "Stability and strength" are derived from God alone. Thus Solomon designed to insinuate that God established the harmony of the universe. H. --- An orrery, or globe, was therefore placed on each of these pillars. Parkhurst, in con.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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