20Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
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And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. …
And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place. …
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-22)We have here such a summary both of the brass-work and the gold-work of the temple as we had before (1 Kgs. 7:13-51), in which we have nothing more to observe than, 1. That Huram the workman was very punctual: He finished all that he was to make (2 Chron. 4:11), and left no part of his work undone. Huram, his father , he is called, 2 Chron. 4:16. Probably it was a sort of nickname by which he was…
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