2 Chronicles 4:1

2 Chronicles 4:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
• New International Version (NIV)He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
• English Standard Version (ESV)He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Moreover he made a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.

Context of 2 Chronicles 4:1

Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof. 2Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. 3And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.

2 Chronicles 4:1 word by word

וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙ מִזְבַּ֣ח נְחֹ֔שֶׁת עֶשְׂרִ֤ים אַמָּה֙ אָרְכּ֔וֹ וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים אַמָּ֖ה רָחְבּ֑וֹ וְעֶ֥שֶׂר אַמּ֖וֹת קוֹמָתֽוֹ׃ סRead the interlinear

• Moreover he madeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• an altarמִזְבֵּחַmizbêach · altarH4196
• of brassנְחֹ֫שֶׁתnechôsheth · bronzeH5178
• twentyעֶשְׂרִים‛eώrîym · twentyH6242
• cubitsאַמָּה'ammâh · cubitH520
• the lengthאֹ֫רֶךְ'ôrek · lengthH753
• the breadthרֹ֫חַבrôchab · widthH7341
• thereof, and tenעֶשֶׂר‛eώer ‛ăώârâh · tenH6235
• the heightקוֹמָהqômâh · heightH6967

Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 4:1

• 2 Chronicles 1:5Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of Yhwh: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
• Exodus 27:1And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
• 1 Kings 8:22And Solomon stood before the altar of Yhwh in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
• 1 Kings 9:25And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto Yhwh, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before Yhwh. So he finished the house.
• 2 Kings 16:14And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before Yhwh, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of Yhwh, and put it on the north side of the altar.
• Ezekiel 43:13And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.

Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 4:1

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1The supplementary character of Chronicles is here once more apparent. The author of Kings had omitted to record the dimensions of the brass altar. It stood in the great court 2 Chronicles 6:12-13.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The furniture of the temple. --Here is a further account of the furniture of God's house. Both without doors and within, there was that which typified the grace of the gospel, and shadowed out good things to come, of which the substance is Christ. There was the brazen altar. The making of this was not mentioned in the book of Kings. On this all the sacrifices were offered, and it sanctified the gift. The people who worshipped in the courts might see the…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 12Ch 4:1. Altar of Brass. 1. he made an altar of brass--Steps must have been necessary for ascending so elevated an altar, but the use of these could be no longer forbidden (Ex 20:26) after the introduction of an official costume for the priests (Ex 28:42). It measured thirty-five feet by thirty-five, and in height seventeen and a half feet. The thickness of the metal used for this altar is nowhere given; but supposing it to have been three inches, the…Read the comment

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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings