2 Chronicles 4:20
and the candlesticks with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold,
Cross References
Exodus 25:31And thou shall make a candlestick of pure gold. Of beaten work shall the candlestick be made, even its base, and its shaft, its cups, its knobs, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
Exodus 27:20And thou shall command the sons of Israel, that they bring to thee pure beaten olive oil for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually
1 Kings 6:16And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]. He built [them] for it inside, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
2 Chronicles 4:7And he made the ten candlesticks of gold according to the ordinance concerning them. And he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
Psalms 28:2Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 4:12-22
11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God; 12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars; 13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.… Read the whole commentary →