2 Chronicles 4:22

2Ch 4:22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, [of] pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy [place], and the doors of the house of the temple, [were of] gold.

Ver. 22. And the snuffers, &c.] See on 2Ch 4:11.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

2Ch_4:22

And the entry of the house.

The entry of the house

This, central, conspicuous, and attractive, suggesting--

I. Access to God in Christian worship.

II. Access to symbolic beauty in Christian worship.

1. Perfection of gold, or material prosperity given to God.

2. Palms--growth and fruitfulness in Christian life.

3. Flowers--beauty and fragrance in Christian character.

4. Cherubims--alacrity in Gods service. (J. Wolfendale.)

The worth of grandeur

A fine house cannot make a fine tenant; a first-class carriage cannot make a first-class traveller; a man might sit down on a monarchs throne, and not be a sovereign; he might even look like a king, and be only a clown. Decoration is useless, if it does not express something beyond itself, something spiritual, ideal, transcendental. The picture is nothing if it does not in reality speak, not indeed to the ear of the body, but to the attention of the soul. It is an amusing irony to see some people clothed in purple and fine linen, because there is really no connection between them and their clothes; we expect them to speak musically, and lo! their tones fill our mouths as with gravel-stones. We expect a man to be at least as elegant as his clothes, and when he is not we do not blame the garments; it is more their misfortune than their fault that they should be where they are. So when we read the specification of temples and palaces we say, What does it amount to? What is this grandeur worth in helping and blessing the world? What is civilisation to end in? (J. Parker, D.D.)

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The Biblical Illustrator, edited by Joseph S. Exell (c. 1880s–1900s) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Or, instruments of music.

That is, covered with plates of gold.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Verse 22. The doors - were of gold.] That is, were overlaid with golden plates, the thickness of which we do not know.

THAT every thing in the tabernacle and temple was typical or representative of some excellence of the Gospel dispensation may be readily credited, without going into all the detail produced by the pious author of Solomon's Temple Spiritualized. We can see the general reference and the principles of the great design, though we may not be able to make a particular application of the knops, the flowers, the pomegranates, the tongs, and the snuffers, to some Gospel doctrines: such spiritualizing is in most cases weak, silly, religious trifling; being ill calculated to produce respect for Divine revelation.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

22. the censers] R.V. the firepans, in which fire was carried to and from the altar.

and the entry] R.V. and as for the entry.

the doors of the house of the temple] R.V. the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple. The “[greater] house” or “temple” is here distinguished from the “most holy place” or “shrine.” Cp. 2Ch_3:5; 2Ch_3:8.

were of gold] According to 1Ki_7:50 the hinges were of gold; the doors themselves were of olive wood overlaid with gold (1Ki_6:31-32).

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The entry of the house - The text is, by some, corrected by 1Ki 7:50, “the hinges” of the doors of the house, etc.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Mortars, to hold the fine flour. (Menochius) --- And thus. Here the fifth chapter commences, in Hebrew and Septuagint.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

To wit, in part; they were made of wood, 1Ki 6:30, 2Ki 18:16, but covered with golden plates.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The snuffers; Hebrew, twOrmzm, occurring five times, and always translated "snuffers." A slightly different form of the word is translated "pruning-hooks "four times in the Prophets Isaiah, Joel, Micah.

No doubt these snuffers were something different from the tongs of the preceding verse; the use of one may have been rather to cut the wicks, and the other to trim them. The spoons; Hebrew, pk. This is the word used so often for the "hand," but the essential idea of which is the hollow of either hand or foot or other thing, and among other things of a spoon shape. The word is used of the frankincense-cups (Num_7:14, Num_7:20, Num_7:26) brought to the dedication of the tabernacle by the several princes. The censers; Hebrew, twOTjm. These were "snuff-dishes" (Exo_25:38 Exo_37:23; Num_4:9) The entry of the house; Hebrew, jtP. Some think this word refers to the door-frames, as distinct from the door-leaves or doors themselves. But the parallel (1Ki_7:50) gives us what is translated as "hinges" (Hebrew, tOp), a word that occurs only here in any such sense, as presumably (Gesenius, "Lexicon") "the hollowed part of a hinge," and Isa_3:17 for the pudenda muliebria. The mistaken transcribing of a kheth for a tau will amply account for the difference.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Of gold - In part; they were made of wood, but covered with golden plates.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Also the lamp trimmers ... were all made of pure gold

This can be stated in active form. AT: "The workers also made the lamp trimmers ... out of pure gold" (See: Active or Passive)

lamp trimmers

These would have been used to trim the wicks of the lamps.

its inner doors ... were made of gold

This can be stated in active form. AT: "the workers made its inner doors ... out of gold" (See: Active or Passive)

translationWords

incense

holy place

temple

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And the musical instruments - Heb. וְהַמְזַמְּרוֹת.

and the basins with which to sprinkle the blood on the altar.

and the spoons for th e spoons of frankincense (Lev. 24:7).

and the censers with which to gather up the part of the ashes that is separated [from the rest and cast beside the altar, as in Lev. 6:31, (and the rest of the ashes) to pick up from the altar, (ibid. 16:12): “And he shall take a full censer, etc.”

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.