2 Chronicles 1:5

Also, the altar of bronze that Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur had made, was there before the habitation of Yahweh,—so Solomon and the convocation sought it.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

In Context

4Howbeit, the ark of God, had David brought up from Kiriath-jearim, into the place that David had prepared for it,—for he had pitched for it a tent, in Jerusalem.

6And Solomon went up thither, unto the altar of bronze before Yahweh, which belonged to the tent of meeting,—and caused to go up thereon a thousand ascending-sacrifices.

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Cross References

Exodus 31:2See, I have called by name, Bezaleel, son of Uri, son of Hur of the tribe of Judah;

1 Chronicles 2:19And Azubah died,—and Caleb took unto him Ephrath, and she bare to him Hur.

1 Chronicles 13:3and let us bring round the ark of our God, unto us,—For they sought it not, in the days of Saul.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 1:2-13

Second Chronicles This book begins with the reign of Solomon and the building of the temple, and continues the history of the kings of Judah thenceforward to the captivity and so concludes with the fall of that illustrious monarchy and the destruction of the temple. That monarchy of the house of David, as it was prior in time, so it was superior in worth and dignity to all those four celebrated ones of which Nebuchadnezzar dreamed. The Babylonian monarchy I reckon to begin in Nebuchadnezzar himself— Thou art that… Read the whole commentary →

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