2 Chronicles 4:9

They also constructed one courtyard for the priests, and a larger courtyard for the other people. They made doors for the courtyards and covered them with thin sheets of bronze.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

In Context

8They made ten tables and put them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north side. They also made 100 gold bowls.

10They placed the very large tank on the south side of the temple, at the southeast corner.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:36They built a courtyard in front of the temple. The walls around the courtyard were made of cedar and stone; to make the walls, between each layer of cedar beams they put down two layers of stone.

2 Kings 21:5He directed that altars for worshiping the stars be built in both of the courtyards outside the temple.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 4:2-11

The Furniture of the Temple. ( b. c. 1012.) 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. 2 Also 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. 3 And 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… Read the whole commentary →

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