2 Chronicles 4:21

And certain flowers, and lamps, and golden tongs: all were made of the finest gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;

In Context

20The candlesticks also of most pure gold with their lamps to give light before the oracle, according to the manner.

22The vessels also for the perfumes, and the censers, and the bowls, and the mortars, of pure gold. And he graved the doors of the inner temple, that is, for the holy of holies: and the doors of the temple without were of gold. And thus all the work was finished which Solomon made in the house of the Lord.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:38The snuffers also, and where the snuffings shall be put out, shall be made of the purest gold.

1 Kings 6:18And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.

1 Kings 6:35And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved work standing very much out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square work by rule.

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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