2 Chronicles 4:20

And the supports for the lights with their lights, to be burning in the regular way in front of the inmost room, of the best gold;

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

In Context

19And Solomon made all the vessels used in the house of God, the gold altar and the tables on which the holy bread was placed,

21The flowers and the vessels for the lights and the instruments used for them, were all of gold; it was the best gold.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:31And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.

Exodus 27:20Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times.

1 Kings 6:16And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

2 Chronicles 4:7And he made the ten gold supports for the lights, as directions had been given for them, and he put them in the Temple, five on the right side and five on the left.

Psalms 28:2Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

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 →

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