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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 4:22 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
2Ch 4:22 |
King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The entry of the house - The text is, by some, corrected by Kg1 7:50, "the hinges" of the doors of the house, etc. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Of gold - In part; they were made of wood, but covered with golden plates. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
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. |
50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.